Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, podcast host & speaker who believes that stories save us.
Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, podcast host & speaker who believes that stories save us.
Upcoming Events
My next 10-week online course in memoir is now enrolling!
This is a 10-week noncredit online course through the University of Washington's Continuum Program meeting every Wednesday night from 6:00-9:00 pm PT beginning March 12th. This class is ideal for writers who have been generating memoir material and are interested in book-length work, though the tools in the course will enrich memoir writing of any length. We're going to cover many aspects of the memoir-writing process including what components help strengthen plot, voice in memoir, discovering the structure that works best for your narrative, approaches to telling our story, taking care of ourselves while working on difficult material, writing about others, revision tools, and more. Every session will include prompts and writing exploration, a lesson with lots of discussion and analysis, and each student will have their writing workshopped over our 10 weeks together. If you’re interested in building a strong creative cohort and finding a supportive and smart writing community, this course is a great fit.
Stories save us.
Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, speaker, and memoirist Ronit Plank, each episode highlights different aspects of the memoir writing experience, writing tips, and inspiration.
Recently on Let’s Talk Memoir
Episode 144 ft. Sarah Gormley
Sarah Gormley joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about unpacking the baggage of self-doubt and imposter syndrome and moving toward self-love, shaping our memoirs into answers to the questions we have about our life, prioritizing pieces and elements of our...
Episode 143 ft. Paula Whyman
Paula Whyman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about getting out of our comfort zone, her attempt to restore native meadows in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, becoming obsessed with subjects and deep diving, writing about science and nature,...
Praise for Let’s Talk Memoir and Ronit Plank
Books by Ronit Plank
When She Comes Back
“An intimate, intuitive, emotionally vivid account that finds hope in reconciliation.” – Kirkus Reviews
When She Comes Back is a memoir about the loss of Ronit’s mother to the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru at the center of the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, and their eventual reconciliation. It’s also the story of a family trying to find itself, grownups who don’t know how to be adults, and what happens when the person your life revolves around can’t stay.
Home Is a Made Up Place
“A poignant and melancholy collection of stories about the constant search for a place to belong.” – Kirkus Reviews
Bracing and intimate, Home is a Made-Up Place is a collection of stories about reclaiming personal power, recognizing the difference between what can and cannot be changed, and the pull of familial attachments despite the toll they might take.