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The Permission Workbook: Writing About the Dead

I Wrote About My Grandmother's Abandonment. Then My Family Abandoned Me.

Conversation with Sam Baker: The Shift

Redux: July 1940

RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP: Permission to Write the Story You Must Tell: A Memoir and Essay Workshop — Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

LIVE AT POLITICS & PROSE: Elissa Altman and Brittany Kerfoot on Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create

ESSAY: THE BITTER SOUTHERNER: Forever Less of Beauty

ESSAY: when they walked the city

On Shame and the Mundane Stories That Change Our Lives

ESSAY: On Envy and Art-Making

NEW EDITION: Poor Man’s Feast

ESSAY: the things we cling to: On the Sieve of Memory during the Holiday Season

ESSAY: tangled vines and poison leaves

WAITLIST AVAILABLE Creative Nonfiction Online Workshop with Elissa Altman - Orion Magazine

when my spirit faded

Writing the Story That You Must Tell: A Memoir and Essay Workshop — Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

Writing and the Permission to Succeed

A Sort of Chicken We Call Fish; On Feeding People What They Want

From Maine I Can See The Curve of the Earth

The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University

FAWC Residential Workshop: Permission and the New Memoirist

New Essay: Inside The Waiting - Orion Magazine

Elissa on Terrible, Thanks for Asking

Elissa and Katherine May in conversation on The Wintering Sessions

Age Hacker: An Essay on Truth and Aging

WHAT MATTERS: My Q&A with Debbie Millman

Elissa on Sam Lamott’s How to Human podcast

Motherland in AudioFile Magazine

Ghosts At My Table: On Field Art and the Passage of Time

Dame Magazine: Social-Media Friendships, Celebrity, and Ghosting

Motherland now available in paperback, ebook, and audio

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