The Martha s Vineyard Times
Mya Spalter is offering a publishing workshop through Literary Arts at Featherstone. Courtesy Kate Feiffer
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article with this rather mean-spirited headline: “An Epic of Memoir Writing: The lockdowns have spread a virus of nonmemorable life stories.” Ouch. Whatever happened to everyone has a story worth telling?
For those of us, and there are many of us, who flexed our literary muscles during lockdown and are now emerging a year later with a draft of a quarantine novel or socially separated memoir, it may be time to start thinking about publication because yes, everyone does have a story worth telling.