Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 47 ft. Dinty W. Moore

Brooke Warner

Dinty W. Moore joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about his 25 years as Editor-in-Chief of Brevity Magazine, elements that set submissions apart and what rejection really means, landing on a writer’s voice, resisting the urge to explain, allowing ourselves to be peculiar, and generating work in play mode but being relentless in revision.

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