We are pleased to post the second place winning essay in this past winter’s Writing It Real essay contest. Our guidelines said the number 12 was to be somewhere in the essay in honor of Writing It Real’s 12th Anniversary. Our guest judge, Midge Raymond, co-founder of Oregon’s Ashland Creek Press, chose Maureen Mistry’s “The … Continue reading →
To access this post, you must purchase
Online Personal Essay Writing Workshop + Membership , Development and Line Editing + Membership , Yesim Cimcoz Where Story Begins + Membership , Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - How Editing Helps You Find Your Way + Membership 11:00AM , Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - How Editing Helps You Find Your Way + Membership 2:00PM , Poetry Writing Workshop + Membership , In-Class Writing and Responses – Your Writing Will Surprise You! + Membership 2:00PM , In-Class Writing and Responses – Your Writing Will Surprise You! + Membership 11:00 AM , Summer Reading Summer Writing Plus Membership , Write More Healthy Starts Plus Membership , You: Writing in the 2nd Person Online Workshop Plus Membership , Keep Goin' On Your Writing over the Holidays Plus Membership , Writing for Young Readers Plus Membership , Introduction to Scrivener -- Plus Membership , Writing Healthy Starts + Membership , Eight Half-Hour Consults + Membership , Befriending the Giant + Membership , Write! Write! Write! Writing Exercises for Writing Prose from Personal Experience + Membership , Phone Consult: 3750 Words or Six Poems + Membership , The 3 E’s: Epistolary, Ekphrastic and Epideictic + Membership , Four Half-Hour Consults + Membership or New! Using the Flash Series Technique to Write Memoir .
About Maureen Mistry
Maureen Mistry is a pharmacist and freelance writer, who moved from her naturalized country of Denmark to work in her birth country of Nigeria. She has published personal narrative essays about her life as an expatriate in Nigeria and contributes articles in US peer reviewed pharmaceutical publications. "The Silent Scream" is her first personal essay published in the US.
Post navigation