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Mira Ptacin is an award-winning memoirist, narrative journalist, editor, and book doula.

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About

Mira Ptacin is a literary journalist, memoirist, New York Times best-selling ghostwriter, editor, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Books, where it received a rare “starred” review. She’s also the author of the genre-blending book of feminist history, memoir, and ethnography, The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2019), which the New York Times lauded as the best book to read during a pandemic. Mira’s writing frequently appears in the New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Poets and Writers, Harper’s, Tin House, LitHub, and more. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was editor-at-large of their literary magazine, LUMINA. Mira lives on Peaks Island, Maine, and is currently working on her next book. 

Books

Poor Your Soul

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

The In-Betweens

Get Out of My Crotch: Twenty-One Writers Respond to America's War on Women's Rights and Reproductive Health

My Books
Events

upcoming events

Maine media workshops

Writing Grief Workshop(online) 

Jan 13, 2025 - Feb 5, 2025
 over 8 sessions (Mondays & Wednesdays, 1-3pm ET)
 

register here

TONGASS mist

micro memoir Workshop 

Tuesday, Nov. 12th

2-4 akst/6-8 est

register here

To Catharsis & Beyond: a Micro-Memoir Flash Nonfiction 4-Week Generative Zoom Workshop 

Thursdays, 6-8p.m. eat

starts November 7th

register here

A Glittery Literary

(Glitt-erary?)

Fundraiser for Incarcerated women in Maine

NOVEL BOOK BAR

Saturday, November 3rd

Doors 6:30, starts 7pm sharp!

643 Congress Street, Portland, maine

FUNDRAISER HERE

PHANTOM pages:

a literary halloween bash

thursday, October 30th

7:30 - 10:30 p.m. (doors open 7 p.m.)

Mechanics Hall

519 Congress Street, Portland, maine

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

Down East Adventures

Memoir Writing workshop

October 20-22nd

Rangeley Inn

Rangeley, Maine

REGISTER HERE

Mwpa's

Flash prose writing workshop

The Art of the Tiny Truth

Saturday, October 19th

11-4 p.m.

Mechanics hall

519 Congress street, Portland, Maine

REGISTER HERE

Maine Lit Fest

"storytelling in Magazines"

Featuring Jaed Coffin (author of Roughhouse Friday), Michael Paterniti (author of Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays), and Vanity Fair’s Senior Editor Keziah Weir (author of The Mythmakers)

Friday, October 11th 7-8:30p.m.

Mechanics Hall, Portland Maine

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A Bizarre Victorian Bazaar:

An Exhibition of Oddities & the Obscure

October 5 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Victorian Mansion

109 Danforth Street

Portland Maine

Get tickets here

"The Cliffs"book launch

In Conversation with author

J. Courtney Sullivan 

Thursday, July 25th at 2p.m.

Cape Arundel Inn and Resort

Kennebunkport, Maine

register HERE

To Catharsis & Beyond: a Micro-Memoir Flash Nonfiction 4-Week Generative Zoom Workshop with Mira Ptacin, Starts Tuesday, July 9th, 2024

Flash Nonfiction Writing 

"The Skin I'm In"

Sunday, June 23rd, 2024

3-5:30 eastern via ZOOM

Beneath the Iceberg: A Hybrid Introduction to Memoir Saturday, April 20th, 2024

10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

To Catharsis & Beyond: a Micro-Memoir Flash Nonfiction 4-Week Generative Zoom Workshop with Mira Ptacin, Starts Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

Jan. 18 - Feb. 6, 2024

Maine Media Workshops

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Slice of Life memoir workshop

Wednesday, April 26

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Print Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Portland

Tuesday, May 2

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Bunker Brewing Co, 17 Westfield Street, Portland

May 5 - May 7

The Rangeley Inn, Rangeley Maine

June 26 - June 30

Maine Media Workshops

70 Camden St., Rockport

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