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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Episode 263 ft. Matt Fogelson

Episode 263 ft. Matt Fogelson

Matt Fogelson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about coming to grips with the death of his father, the struggle to not pass down the emotional distance he grew up with to his own son, grabbing emotions from scenes and seeing what germinates, finding the...

Episode 262 ft. Kate Jackson

Episode 262 ft. Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about discovering the family you were raised in was not what you thought, mourning the life we didn’t get a chance to live, writing about the missing, if wholeness is possible, longing for family, how unknowing...

Episode 261 ft. Suzanne Roberts

Episode 261 ft. Suzanne Roberts

Suzanne Roberts joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about why writing prompts are so powerful, images that haunt us, avoiding revenge prose, revising to create a rounded character, writing our truth, getting better at dialogue, how to navigate AI, the joy of...