How to write and publish your memoir (without going to AWP) with Bernardine 'Dine' Watson, author of TRANSPLANT: A Memoir, and Megan Doney, author of UNARMED: An American Educator's Memoir. These award-winning memoirs, published in 2023 and 2024, respectively, by the Washington Writers' Publishing House, broke new ground for this DC-based small press and reached readers nationwide. Learn about these first-time authors' writing processes and their journeys to publication.

Dine Watson is a nonfiction writer and poet living in Washington, DC. Her book, Transplant: A Memoir won the Washington Writers' Publishing House 2023 prize for nonfiction and was named one of NPR's books we love in 2023. Dine's poetry has been published in numerous journals, including Gargoyle, Mid-Atlantic Review and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Two of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Megan Doney is a writer and English professor in Virginia. Her work has been published in Ilanot Review, New Limestone Review, Rappahannock Review, Creative Nonfiction, Earth & Altar, and Inside Higher Ed, as well as in the anthologies Allegheny and If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best of the Net, and Best American Essays. She was a Fulbright scholar in South Africa in 2007, and returned there in 2015 to study reconciliation and violence. Megan earned an MFA from Lesley University. Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir is her first book.

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