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Cover Photo: This image is a close up of three short candles. Their wax has dripped onto the wooden table where they sit and the background is blurry and warm-looking.

Excerpt from ‘We Are Everything at Once’

This novel excerpt was written by Cameron Price in Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ 12-Month Novel Generator

Jul 16, 2021

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Cover Photo: This black and white photograph shows a pair of foam earplugs and a plastic hospital bracelet sitting on a wooden surface next to a sticky note, which reads: "Do NOT push unless in an extreme emergency situation!"

Excerpt from ‘Everything You Can’t Control’

This memoir excerpt was written by Marisa Russello in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Marisa Russello

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows a close up of a woman wearing a leather corset. her hands are raised, as if she is posing, and the background of the image is bright red.

Excerpt from ‘The In-Between’

This memoir excerpt was written by Ashley Perez in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph is of a wooden chair sitting in a garden full of greenery and flowers.

Excerpt from ‘Even & Especially’

This memoir excerpt was written by Jessica Gilkison in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Jessica Gilkison

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows three people unloading flats of fruit from the back of a pickup truck. They are all wearing face masks and plastic gloves.

Excerpt from ‘Nothing is Ever Over’

This memoir excerpt was written by Harmony Cox in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph is of "The Crenshaw Wall," which is a piece of street artwork described in the author's memoir excerpt.

Excerpt from ‘Underneath the Palm Trees’

This memoir excerpt was written by Eva Recinos in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows a young girl with dark hair focusing on writing in her journal. She's at a small, colorful desk, with stickers around her, like she is in a kindergarten classroom

Excerpt from ‘Notes on America’

This memoir excerpt was written by Nancy Wu in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph was taken in a dark bar. The bar, tables, and one person are outlined in shadow, but at the front of the bar there are big windows that look out onto the street. Three pride flags hang outside just past the windows.

Excerpt from ‘Let The Love Surprise You’

This memoir excerpt was written by Amy Estes in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Jul 14, 2021

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Excerpt from ‘The Geographic’

This memoir excerpt was written by Kristin Gourlay in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month Memoir Generator

Kristin Gourlay

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows the Great Wall of China, stretching over green mountains on a blue-sky, white-cloud filled day. There are many people walking on the wall, appearing as small colorful spots along the walkways.

Excerpt from ‘Wanting: A Memoir of Marriage, Patriarchy, and Privilege’

This memoir excerpt was written by Erin Branning in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month memoir Generator

Jul 14, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows a close up of someone thinly slicing a zucchini

Excerpt from ‘One Star’

This novel excerpt was written by Raphael Majma in Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ 12-Month Novel Generator

Jun 30, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows an old campus building surrounded by fall foliage.

Excerpt from ‘Girl with the Primrose Pin’

This novel excerpt was written by Charlene Wang in Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ 12-Month Novel Generator

Jun 30, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows a close up of a woman's hands sewing the edge of a piece of colorful fabric

Excerpt from ‘Comfort’

This novel excerpt was written by Damilola Oyedele in Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ 12-Month Novel Generator

Damilola Oyedele

Jun 30, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows a woman holding up a glass of red wine in front of her face. The photograph is very dark, with red light on the woman's face, so as to give the photo a dark, mysterious, sort of apprehensive tone.

Excerpt from ‘A Cilantro Wedding Bouquet’

This novel excerpt was written by María Alejandra Barrios in Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ 12-Month Novel Generator

María Alejandra Barrios

Jun 30, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph looks into the window of a cluttered antique store, showing many old photographs and posters, all slightly faded from the sun.

Excerpt from ‘Midnight in Exile’ by Andra Nicolescu

This novel excerpt was written by Andra Nicolescu in Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ 12-Month Novel Generator

Andra Nicolescu

Jun 30, 2021

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Cover Photo: This picture looks across a clear lake at the edge of an island. You can see scattered houses, though they are very tiny. Most of them look like they are white with reddish roofs. Behind them, brown hills rise up. We see a sliver of ocean behind.

Excerpt from ‘Return to Sirana’

This novel excerpt was written by Kristin Vukovic in Lynn Steger Strong’s 12-Month Novel Generator

Kristin Vukovic

Jun 02, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows a pigeon and a sparrow both pecking at crumbs on a sidewalk. Lines of shadow from a fence or a gate are cast over them as they peck.

Excerpt from ‘The Sparrow Choir’

This novel excerpt was written by J M Hannaford in Lynn Steger Strong’s 12-Month Novel Generator

Jun 02, 2021

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Excerpt from ‘Urban Guerrillas’

This novel excerpt was written by Annabelle Larsen in Lynn Steger Strong’s 12-Month Novel Generator

Annabelle Larsen

Jun 02, 2021

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Cover Photo: This picture looks up at the belly of a plane as it takes off. The sky is pale purple and yellow and red and these gentle sunrise colors are reflected on the plane.

Excerpt from ‘Girl Interpreter’

This novel excerpt was written by Cherry Lou Sy in Lynn Steger Strong’s 12-Month Novel Generator

Jun 02, 2021

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Cover Photo: This photograph shows gray storm clouds rushing over bright green scrub brush and bushes. We see low dark mountains in the background, but the clouds are almost consuming them.

Excerpt from ‘Red’

This novel excerpt was written by Claudia Cravens in Lynn Steger Strong’s 12-Month Novel Generator

Claudia Cravens

Jun 02, 2021

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