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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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). […]
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