- Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
- Making Shapely Fiction - Jerome Stern
- Naked, Drunk and Writing - Adair Lara
- On Writer's Block - Victoria Nelson
- Seven Steps on the Writer's Path - Nancy Pickard & Lynn Lott
- The Art of Writing Memoir - Mary Karr
- Wild Mind - Natalie Goldberg
- Writing Open the Mind - Andy Couturier
- Writing Alone and With Others - Pat Schneider
- Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
- Writing Life Stories - Bill Roorbach
- Writing the Memoir - Judith Barrington
- The Situation and the Story - Vivian Gornick
- A Swim in the Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
- Mystery and Manners - Flannery O'Connor
- Meander, Spiral, Explode - Jane Allison
- When Structure Sets You Free - Nell Boeschenstein
- How to Write a Memoir in Essays, with Rebekah Taussig - by Marion Roach
Here's a list of workshops and events for writers: (more to come)
Here are some good literary journals for submitting your work, both fiction and non-fiction:
- The Sun
- Memoir Magazine
- Bellevue Literary Review
- F(r)iction
- Creative Nonfiction
- Narrative Magazine
- North Carolina Literary Journal
- The Sun