Telling Our Stories Press


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The independent literary imprint with a focus on
the art of short memoir and personal narratives.

CoCo Harris, MFA is the Founding Editor of Telling Our Stories Press.

Telling Our Stories Press is constantly exploring the notion of how we tell the stories of our lives via literary contests, and short memoir projects.

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Roll: A Collection of Personal Narratives    by CoCo Harris
Price: $3.99 USD. 71700 words. Published by Telling Our Stories Press  on September 26, 2012. .

A collection of short personal narratives and memoirs. This collection features the work of over fifty authors telling the stories of their lives, one short narrative at a time.
SO LONG: Short Memoirs of Loss and Remembrance    by CoCo Harris
Price: $3.99 USD. 65810 words. Published by Telling Our Stories Press  on August 3, 2012. .

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A heartfelt collection of narratives of various forms and shapes on grief, loss and remembrance.
IMPACT: An Anthology of Short Memoirs    by CoCo Harris
Price: $4.99 USD. 74050 words. Published by Telling Our Stories Press  on June 27, 2012. .

A literary collection showcasing the art of short memoir with a variety of personal narratives of varying voices and artistic form.
TURNS: A Collection of Memoir Chapbooks    by CoCo Harris
Price: $3.99 USD. 50940 words. Published by Telling Our Stories Press  on June 11, 2012. .

A volume of short memoir chapbooks comprised of compelling narratives. The following authors and titles are featured: Deep Blue: Poems of a Navy Life by Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot; My Life in Shoes by Pamela L. Laskin; The Enigma by Gerri Luce; Scenes from My Life on Hemlock Street: A Brooklyn Memoir by Arlene L. Mandell; Learning from Lady Chatterley by Gloria Nixon-John; My Two Years in Priest Corp
Resurrecting Proust: Unearthing Personal Narratives through Journaling    by CoCo Harris
Price: $3.99 USD. 20810 words. Published by Telling Our Stories Press  on January 9, 2011. .

~Bridges the journal-memoir connection ~Suggests techniques along with an array of story-generating prompts ~Provides an excellent resource for extracting expressive and creative personal narratives ~Mines the depths of which personal writing can play an integral part in unearthing your life stories ~Helps you to follow the story of your inner life To the place where memory meets insight

Books

MY CIA: A Memoir    by Telling Our Stories Press
Price: $2.99 USD. 19060 words. Published on June 28, 2012. Nonfiction.

In her third book, a memoir, McCord uses the lens of the present to delve into the past: McCord was born in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, the daughter of a CIA Officer and a beautiful, sheltered, young mother of Irish catholic descent, ten months after the birth of her sister.

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