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Memorable Memoirs

25/3/2020

Memorable memoirs from Springtime Books

A Life Story Jar is made from the pieces and experiences that make you who you are. The Japanese ginger jar inspired the framework for The Life Story Jar Programme.

We are born perfect as porcelain. By the time we reach middle life we have had many experiences and may have developed a few cracks along the way.
In the 15th century the Japanese turned piecing broken porcelain back together into an art form using golden glue. They call this kintsugi and believe the cracks make the jar more precious.

The pieces are your stories and the golden glue is the magic of sharing those stories.

This is the story behind the Life Story Jar.

Jo Parfitt's Life Story Jar programme gently guides and teaches you to write your own precious stories and preserve a collection of pieces before it’s too late. Each jar is a collection of writings on a theme, such as My Family or Growing Up, created through a series of 12 lessons, grouped into jars, or packs and sent weekly, by email.

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Are You An Expat Writer with a Story to Tell?

30/1/2020

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Introducing the Lindsay de Feliz New Writer of Expat Memoir Award 2020

Lindsay de Feliz, one of our most treasured authors, was cruelly murdered in December 2019 near her home in the Dominican Republic. Lindsay wrote about her extraordinary life in her witty and candid best-selling memoirs What About Your Saucepans and Life After My Saucepans.

To honour Lindsay, Summertime Publishing and Springtime Books have introduced the 2020 Lindsay de Feliz New Writer of Expat Memoir Award. The lucky winner will receive a bursary to cover the full cost of our publishing package – big picture edit, proofread, design, production and distribution for worldwide sale.

Apply before the end of July 2020

Apply now by downloading and completing the application form:

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Submissions are invited until the end of July 2020, and the winner will be selected in September 2020 by our panel of expatriate authors and writers from the Dominican Republic.

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A Sad Day

18/12/2019

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It was with profound sadness that we learned about the death of one of our authors, Lindsay de Feliz. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy are still open to much speculation. However, it is clear we have lost one of our most treasured authors, a woman of great wisdom and humour, courage and fortitude, who resolutely pursued her dream to live a life less ordinary as vividly retold in her remarkable memoirs, What About Your Saucepans? and Life After My Saucepans.

Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with her family and friends at this sad and troubling time. RIP, Lindsay de Feliz. You were a pleasure to work with and an inspiration to us all.

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