In "Too Young to Write a Memoir?," published June 17 in "The Brevity Blog," Memoir Incubator participant Emma Moriarty pushes back against the assumption that youth disqualifies someone from the genre.
As a 23-year-old writer, there have certainly been times when I have doubted my place in the memoir space. I had been juggling my fear of being “too young” before enrolling in Memoir Incubator, so this comment from the silver-haired lady hit a nerve. Maybe I AM too young to write a memoir? Will people just think I am young and naive? Will readers overlook my book as soon as they flip to the back and learn how old I am?
Emma Moriarty is a recent Lehigh University graduate and award-winning writer from Shrewsbury, NJ, who is currently book inc’s Marketing and Communications Intern and is pursuing her passion for creative nonfiction.
