by Pat Bean
Jill Kandel, winner of the 2014-15 Sarton Memoir Award for her book, So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village, believes in the power of words and the power […]
Yelizaveta P. Renfro is the 2014 Sarton Award winner for Xylotheque, a collection of nine very personal and revealing essays that combine memoir and nature writing. She is also the […]
by Lisa Shirah-Hiers
Tanya Ward Goodman is the 2013 Sarton Award winner for Leaving Tinkertown, her deeply moving memoir chronicling her return home to the roadside museum, “Tinkertown,” where she grew up, in […]
by Lisa Shirah-Hiers
Monica Wood is the author of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, a New England bestseller, #1 bestseller in Maine, Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of the […]
Jamie Patterson has been awarded second place in the Sarton Women’s Memoir competition for her book Lost Edens: A True Story (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2011). A memoir of a failed marriage and abandoned dreams, Lost Edens helps […]
by Paula Yost
Leila Levinson is the first place winner of the 2011 Sarton Memoir Award for her book Gated Grief: The Daughter of a GI Concentration Camp Liberator Discovers a Legacy of Trauma (Cable Publishing, 2011). […]
