The Momoir Project

The Momoir Project was started by Cori Howard, an award-winning journalist who has worked in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, filing stories from across the world. Her writing (much of it personal essays on motherhood) has appeared in publications including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent, Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Reader’s Digest and Today’s Parent. She is the editor of the recently published anthology, Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood. Based on her experience editing the anthology, she decided to pursue a magazine that would regularly offer readers the same kind of emotional and irreverent essays found in her book. But first, she thought she would start teaching moms how to write their own stories and give them an opportunity to publish on her Momoir Project website. To read some of those essays, check out the Feature Stories category. Cori lives with her family in Vancouver, BC and teaches the Vancouver classes as well as the online courses.

Randi Chapnik Myers, mother to three kids, left her law career behind when she enrolled in a memoir class at Harvard University. That led to a life as a freelance writer for various national publications including Today’s Parent, The Globe and Mail, MoneySense, More Magazine, Toronto Life, and others. She is a contributing editor for Today’s Parent, and also writes web content for TV and corporations, helps clients write books, and contributed an essay to Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood.

Jessica Stockton Clancy is the mother of a 3-year-old daughter. In her pre-motherhood days she lived in Los Angeles and worked in the film industry, producing numerous television commercials, music videos, and an independent feature film. She traded in her walkie-talkie for a diaper bag in February of 2006, and began working as a freelance writer. Jessica has been published in the Washington Post and is a regular contributor to Washington Parent. She finds great inspiration in reading the stories of other moms, and writing essays that reflect her own experiences.

Corbin Lewars is a writer, editor, instructor and creator of the zine Reality Mom (www.realitymomzine.blogspot.com). Her zine is in its seventh year of publishing and is sold in various bookstores across the US. Corbin’s essays have been featured in Mothering, Hip Mama, Midwifery Today and numerous of other publications. She was the editor of Verve, a Seattle women’s magazine, and Mamaphiles 3, an anthology of mother witers. She has taught at Shoreline Community College, North Seattle Community College, Antioch University, Richard Hugo House and in Seattle public schools. She is also the author of the memoir, Creating a Life, (Catalyst Book Press, 2010).

Sue Fast, mom of three, stepmom of one, is the editor of Island Parent Magazine. Her writing has appeared in publications including Canadian Living, Vancouver Magazine, among others. She recently completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.