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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Stephen Policoff joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the tragic death of his beloved wife and his older daughter Anna within the space of about 3 years, caring for Anna who had a rare lysosomal storage disorder known as Niemann-Pick disease, making sure...

Episode 267 ft. Patricia Knight Meyer

Episode 267 ft. Patricia Knight Meyer

Patricia Knight Meyer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being a Black Market Baby during the Baby Scoop Era, coming to terms with adoption trauma, the consequences of growing up without identification, mothers who were shamed into relinquishment,...

Episode 266 ft. Amy Irvine

Episode 266 ft. Amy Irvine

Amy Irvine joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal lineage and what gets handed down to us, exploring the impact of our women ancestors, feeling trapped by motherhood, reckoning with and disrupting deep cultural conditioning, living a remote life and...