PSPP release—spring 2026

“Free”

Workshop Video

For those wanting to immerse themselves in improving their writing, we created this 39 min. instructional video on
“7 essential elements of the personal story.”
This workshop video shares outstanding examples of each element drawn from selected stories in the 2020 PSPP, “That Southern Thing—living, loving, laughing, loathing, leaving the South.” Click on the image below to watch it through YouTube and then write something for our Personal Story Publishing Project.

Notes and Quotes - writing tips

Thank you for participating. Keep writing.

Titles in the PSPP series

Free (spring 2026) - 45 stories
- 200 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, matte cover, $21.95

Other titles in the Personal Story Publishing Project Series:
(vols. 1-12 are 200-220pp with 45-50 stories each)
Bearing Up (spring 2018) - $16.95
Exploring (spring 2019) - $16.95
That Southern Thing (spring 2020) - $17.95
Luck and Opportunity (spring 2021) - $17.95
Trouble (fall 2021) - $17.95
Curious Stuff (spring 2022) - $17.95
Twists and Turns (fall 2022) - $19.95
Lost & Found (spring 2023) - $19.95
Sooner or Later (fall 2023) - $20.95
Now or Never (spring 2024) - $20.95
Foolhardy (fall 2024) - $20.95
Foiled (spring 2025) - $21.95

Go to "books and DVDs

Personal Story
Publishing Project -

Good writing, good stories
put to good use.

2018 - 2026

The Gift of Words

In February 2026, the Personal Story Publishing Project donated a complete library of all 13 published collections to Learn To Read of St. Johns County, Inc. in St. Augustine, Florida. It was donated as continuing support of the volunteer tutors who work to help adult clients improve their literacy. The tutors will find all the great writing enjoyable for their own reading as well. Moreover, LTR expects to use the over 500 episodes of “6-minute Stories” podcast as a resource to help other clients improve their proficiency in mastering English as an additional spoken language.

Congratulations to all the writers who contributed to any of the 13 collections since 2018. Please know that your good writing continues to be of value to others, for their development, for their encouragement, and for their entertainment.

As we say on “6-minute Stories” podcast, “Everybody loves a good story.” Thank you for sharing yours.

This gift was made by publisher and editor Randell Jones in memory of his mother, Kathleen McBride Jones (1923-2004), who volunteered as an adult literacy tutor for several years.

Keep telling your story.

“6-minute Stories” Podcast

Personal Story Publishing Project