Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 24 ft. Allison K Williams

Brooke Warner

Literary Citizen of the Year Allison K Williams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the importance of plot, structure, and dramatic arc in memoir, the elements that make a story a story, insuring your memoir has a reader takeaway, what being in the circus taught her about writing, why she calls herself the unkind editor, and how she really feels about memoir.

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Episode 195 ft. Alex DiFrancesco

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Episode 194 ft. Nina B. Lichtenstein

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