I had the privilege of working with a number of authors on their stellar memoirs which are slated for publication in the coming year. 

This October, Post Hill Press will publish Daniel Melchior's true crime memoir, The Silk Finisher: Bigotry, Murder, and Sacrifice in the Crossroads of America.

Also in October, Schaffner Press will bring out Dianne Dugaw's California Medieval, Nearly a Nun in 1960s San Francisco, the winner of the publisher's annual Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature.

Speaking of awards, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann's Lost Found Kept, winner of the Aurora Polaris Award for Creative Nonfiction, comes out in January, published by Trio House Press.

In March, Betsy Small's Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone will come out with the University of Michigan Press.

And in June, University Press of Kentucky will publish Johnisha Matthews Levi's Numbers Up: Cracking the Code of an American Family.

As you can see, all of these books found homes with distinguished smaller presses. So memoir writers, take hope, there are many options for your creation beyond the big five!