Meditations on a Marriage: A Memoir of Our Year and a Half is Pamela Woolford's marriage-memoir collection, a group of essays about her tumultuous relationship with her composer husband, who was emotionally abusive and showed signs of mental illness. Woolford was a 2016 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards finalist and shortlisted for the 2017 Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize for collection excerpts. Two excerpts from Meditations on a Marriage are published in Eunoia Review: "Coffee" and "Dog."

About  Meditations on a Marriage, Pamela Woolford says, "Six months into my marriage to my composer (now ex-) husband, he, out of the blue, berated me for taking a break while writing an email he asked me to write as a favor. I was astonished and confused. Six months after that I had the thought that he might kill me. His escalating verbal assaults and mental abuse left me with that much fear. Yet even after he drove me out of our home on New Year's Day 2015 with two days of back-to-back rages, what I wanted more than anything was to have the man I fell in love with back. After little more than a year with him, I had become someone I didn't recognize. I was 46 when we married, and it was my first marriage partially because I am cautious, logical, and independent. How did this happen to me? Verbal and mental abuse are insidious in the way they slowly turn a person inside out, in my case making me question my own logic and intuition and long for the man who was actually abusing me. Meditations on a Marriage is about the love I shared with a fellow artist, my surprising but not atypical reaction to his abuse and manipulation, and his psychological challenges,  as he exhibited signs of having a personality disorder."

Pamela Woolford's narrative multimedia project Antoine and Me, for which she performs the voiceover in character in addition to being the writer, director, and model, is the opening to a surreal love story contained in handmade photo albums and sound-designed photo narrations, or SDP narrations, an art form which she founded. The work premiered at the Baltimore Museum of Art "Baltimore, Addressed: Baker Artist Awards" exhibition, for which she created a site-specific installation centering the multimedia components of Antoine and Me in a broader story of Black love through time in Baltimore, Maryland, and combining Afrofuturism with archival materials dating back a hundred years.

Antoine and Me also marks the premiere of the world's first SDP narration Collectibles. A supply of 7 NFTs of the SDP narration for Photograph One of Antoine and Me was released at the WOCAX art show, Juneteenth weekend, 2022. For more information about the Antoine and Me project, visit pamelawoolford.com/antoine-and-me. For info about the related nfts, where you can actually hear an nft example of one of her SDP narrations, click the OpenSea NFT link  at pamelawoolford.com/nft.

Pamela Woolford is writing and directing two upcoming multimedia documentary projects. One is a multimedia project entitled Columbia's Black Freedom Visionaries about early Black residents of Pamela Woolford's hometown of Columbia, Maryland, who have contributed significantly to the ideal of freedom in our nation. For this project Pamela Woolford is a recipient of the prestigious Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation. For more information, visit pamelawoolford.com/visionaries.

The other is a documentary on 102-year-old Howard Stokes, who was one of the first Black people permitted to drive a streetcar or any public transportation in our nation's capital. It is an experimental documentary being created with animated collages. This documentary is produced by Pamela Woolford's octogenarian mother Sadie Woolford with funding in part by Maryland State Arts Council.

Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir, a memoir short about anti-Blackness in America, is Pamela Woolford's latest film release in which she is the writer, director, editor, and sole performer. Originally scheduled to premiere at a 2020 solo show of her work at Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, the film has had a limited on-demand run (after the postponing of her gallery show due to to the pandemic). In collaboration with Busboys and Poets and the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, Woolford hosted an online film-premiere event, Art as a Response to Anti-Blackness, which was attended by 1.5 thousand people. The film also screened through Marymount University later that year and was the subject of Woolford's 2020 Bisson Lecture in the Humanities there. For more information about Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir, please visit pamelawoolford.com/interrupted.

Interrupted will screen as part of the virtual-reality experience Up/Rooted: Pamela Woolford's Cabin Windows. For more information , visit pamelawoolford.com/uprooted. 

Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir was made possible in part thanks to the support of Maryland State Arts Council, United Way of Central Maryland, Mosaic Center for Culture and Diversity at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Leah Mazur and Drew Willard, Bob James, and Resonance Records.

Disrupt/ed (a mem-noir) is an upcoming Pamela Woolford memoir in verse with drawings by nationally syndicated Black-American editorial cartoonist Walt Carr and augmented reality in which viewers will be able to focus their smartphone or iPad on a particular image in the book and see the image "come to life" as a 3D experience directed by Pamela. With the tagline "A Black woman’s memory of her childhood confidence and the racist tide she swam against in suburban 1970s America," Disrupt/ed is a race-based childhood memoir in verse. In the book Pamela Woolford explores her early childhood in the 1970s in the planned integrated town of Columbia, Maryland, amidst this nation's legacy of enslavement of Black people, like her. (The book's illustrator Walt Carr is also a longterm resident of Columbia, Maryland.)

With the creation of Disrupt/ed (a mem-noir), Pamela Woolford originates the term "mem-noir."

mem-noir: [mem-nwär] NOUN, A memoir, written in short paragraphs or verse, concerned with being a person of the Black race within the context of a specified subject, time period, or circumstance. Visual art or photographs, especially biographical in nature, are often incorporated. 

Disrupt/ed is supported in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information about Disrupt/ed (a mem-noir), visit pamelawoolford.com/disrupted.