Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton

If part of why you write is because you have some things to share from a life well- or hard- or fully lived, then you’re in good company. Personal writing is about connection, and making sense of our experience, and this week’s guest, Sari Botton, knows a thing or two about what brings writers to the page. She is a champion of personal writing and memoir, and is going to share about contributing, about her own writing process and why it’s hard to put personal things into the world, and so much more—including how to stay the course during these insane times we’re living in and through. To read Sari’s piece that’s part of Writing Co-Lab’s 100 Days of Creative Resistance, visit here.

ABOUT SARI BOTTON

Sari Botton is a bestselling author, editor, and teacher with decades of experience. She is the author of the memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself…Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, chosen by Poets & Writers Magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual “5 Over 50” feature. For five years she served as the Essays Editor for Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She also spearhead and publishes three Substacks: Oldster Magazine, Memoir Monday, and Adventures in Journalism.