Maureen Stanton
@maureenstanton.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/maureenstanton41 Writer, nonfiction, essays, memoir. Paying forward, giving back. "The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir"--winner Donald L. Jordan Prize. Reviewer for New York Journal of Books.
Delighted to be part of this curated collection on a day in the life of a writer. How We Spend Our Days: MAUREEN STANTON open.substack.com/pub/howwespe...
How We Spend Our Days: MAUREEN STANTON
September 2025
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September 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Delighted to be part of this curated collection on a day in the life of a writer. How We Spend Our Days: MAUREEN STANTON open.substack.com/pub/howwespe...
Delighted to be selected by Steve Harvey for "Paragraph of the Week." Very cool and interesting series. Check it out. www.the-humble-essayist.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...
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August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Delighted to be selected by Steve Harvey for "Paragraph of the Week." Very cool and interesting series. Check it out. www.the-humble-essayist.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...
Thrilled to have this review in my "hometown" newspaper. #memoirs #newbooks www.pressherald.com?p=7476949&uu...
A heartbreaking, achingly beautiful memoir of love, loss and resilience
In 'The Murmur of Everything Moving,' Maureen Stanton relates how her passionate, tumultuous young love with Steve changed inalterably when he got sick.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thrilled to have this review in my "hometown" newspaper. #memoirs #newbooks www.pressherald.com?p=7476949&uu...
This is absolutely appalling. Sudan is unstable and dangerous and these men are not from that country. Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan
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July 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is absolutely appalling. Sudan is unstable and dangerous and these men are not from that country. Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
Call the police - there's a group of millionaires stealing healthcare from those who can least afford it! It's criminal and craven.
The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
July 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Call the police - there's a group of millionaires stealing healthcare from those who can least afford it! It's criminal and craven.
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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
My webinar on memoir, in which I defend the oft-maligned form and discuss its place in our culture. #memoirwriting #memoirs www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeC...
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June 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My webinar on memoir, in which I defend the oft-maligned form and discuss its place in our culture. #memoirwriting #memoirs www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeC...
Loved my conversation with the wonderful memoirist and podcast host, Ronit Plank. #memoirs #newreleases
Using the Tools of Fiction to Move Readers
- @maureenstanton.bsky.social is my guest on this episode of Let’s Talk Memoir!
In this conversation: bad first drafts, authenticity on the page, writing a love story, and her new memoir The Murmur of Everything Moving.
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- @maureenstanton.bsky.social is my guest on this episode of Let’s Talk Memoir!
In this conversation: bad first drafts, authenticity on the page, writing a love story, and her new memoir The Murmur of Everything Moving.
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June 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Loved my conversation with the wonderful memoirist and podcast host, Ronit Plank. #memoirs #newreleases
Had a wonderful conversation with writer and podcaster, Galitt Gottlieb. Have a listen. #newreleases #memoir #newbooks #creativenonfiction
Maureen Stanton's new memoir is a love song to a beautiful man with whom she once shared her heart and soul. newbooksnetwork.com/the-murmur-o...
May 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Had a wonderful conversation with writer and podcaster, Galitt Gottlieb. Have a listen. #newreleases #memoir #newbooks #creativenonfiction
Final book event for the summer. Thanks to all who've been able to attend my book events. I appreciate the support! #newbooks #bookreleases #memoir
May 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Final book event for the summer. Thanks to all who've been able to attend my book events. I appreciate the support! #newbooks #bookreleases #memoir
May 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Can't wait to talk with Raye Leonard Thursday night here's a preview from her substack. "Murmur" at Mockingbird #memoir #newbooks #nonfiction #newreleases open.substack.com/pub/rayesleo...
"Murmur" at Mockingbird
Memoir and musings about writing from life
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May 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Can't wait to talk with Raye Leonard Thursday night here's a preview from her substack. "Murmur" at Mockingbird #memoir #newbooks #nonfiction #newreleases open.substack.com/pub/rayesleo...
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's all about Musks's twisted vision of colonizing Mars and a tech-bro ruled world. HCR brings the evidence. This is a must read. May 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
May 7, 2025
Alarm appears to be rising about how the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is consolidating data about Americans.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's all about Musks's twisted vision of colonizing Mars and a tech-bro ruled world. HCR brings the evidence. This is a must read. May 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Delighted that my essay will appear in Cutbank. The judge of the Montana prize wrote, "At turns informative, personal, and often highly amusing..." www.cutbankonline.org/contests-win...
Contests & Winners — CutBank Literary Magazine
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May 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Delighted that my essay will appear in Cutbank. The judge of the Montana prize wrote, "At turns informative, personal, and often highly amusing..." www.cutbankonline.org/contests-win...
Mainers, a break from the sad political news for a love story?
May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Mainers, a break from the sad political news for a love story?
Loved my conversation with Ruthann Batchelder on For Those Who Care podcoast. For the 45 million caregivers (excluding parents) in the US, mostly women, this one's for you. #caregivers www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cj3...
40-Memory, Memoir, and Meaning: Maureen Stanton on Caregiving and "The Murmur of Everything Moving"
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May 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Loved my conversation with Ruthann Batchelder on For Those Who Care podcoast. For the 45 million caregivers (excluding parents) in the US, mostly women, this one's for you. #caregivers www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cj3...
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@maureenstanton.bsky.social on "the evocative power of the smallest grains of storytelling, those tiny sensory details," and how they allow memoir readers to "not only see and hear people and actions, but ... viscerally feel the moods and emotions of the story."
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Taste the Gazpacho, Smell the Hyacinths: Literary Transference in Memoir
By Maureen Stanton In The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner famously wrote about the “fictive dream,” whereby writers use “images that appeal to our senses”…
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April 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@maureenstanton.bsky.social on "the evocative power of the smallest grains of storytelling, those tiny sensory details," and how they allow memoir readers to "not only see and hear people and actions, but ... viscerally feel the moods and emotions of the story."
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"'When Steve’s pain ended, mine would begin.' From that pain, Stanton has made this beautiful memoir." Thankyou @marciaaldrich.bsky.social -such a thoughtful, wise review. The Murmur of Everything Moving url:https://riverteethjournal.com/book-reviews/a-tectonic-shift-the-murmur-of-everything-moving/
April 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"'When Steve’s pain ended, mine would begin.' From that pain, Stanton has made this beautiful memoir." Thankyou @marciaaldrich.bsky.social -such a thoughtful, wise review. The Murmur of Everything Moving url:https://riverteethjournal.com/book-reviews/a-tectonic-shift-the-murmur-of-everything-moving/
Thoughtful smart review of The Murmur of Everything Moving #newbooks #memoirs baos.pub/book-review-...
Book Review: The Murmur of Everything Moving
Maureen Stanton’s newest memoir is a work of singular witness
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April 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thoughtful smart review of The Murmur of Everything Moving #newbooks #memoirs baos.pub/book-review-...
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A bit about how my new memoir came to be published two decades after I wrote the first draft. #patience www.uml.edu/news/stories...
New Memoir from Creative Writing Professor Wins Awards
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March 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A bit about how my new memoir came to be published two decades after I wrote the first draft. #patience www.uml.edu/news/stories...
Hillary Clinton's very smart--as usual-- take on the Trump debacle. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
March 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hillary Clinton's very smart--as usual-- take on the Trump debacle. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
My friend Jason Anthony's wonderfully evocative and engaging book about his time in the Antarctic, set in a lively and fascinating history of the race to reach the South Pole. Jason is a poet so the writing is exquisite. The Roast Penguin Chronicles open.substack.com/pub/jasonant...
The Roast Penguin Chronicles
3/27/25 - A book announcement
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March 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My friend Jason Anthony's wonderfully evocative and engaging book about his time in the Antarctic, set in a lively and fascinating history of the race to reach the South Pole. Jason is a poet so the writing is exquisite. The Roast Penguin Chronicles open.substack.com/pub/jasonant...