Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 60 ft. Priscilla Gilman

Episode 60 ft.Priscilla Gilman Priscilla Gilman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about parentification and hypervigilance in children, toggling between the child character and adult narrator, confronting and capturing the complexity of parents on the page, negotiating our inner critic, and her new memoir The Critic’s Daughter.  Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify YOU […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 59 ft. Laura Carney

Episode 59 ft. Laura Carney Laura Carney joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about pluck, endurance, and being the biggest advocate for your book, writing about unresolved grief, what to do to reclaim memory, the truth about marketing your memoir including pitching early, befriending reporters, and building community, how to engage on social media, […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 58 ft. Leslie Ferguson

Episode 58 ft. Leslie Ferguson Leslie Ferguson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about surviving childhood trauma and her mother’s psychosis, approaching her manuscript through an editorial lens, the toll of insecure attachment, how writing the story that forged her helped her shed some of the pain she carried, and her approach to choosing […]

Who We Become

Who We Become I don’t take much for granted as I get older, even a walk outside without having to look over my shoulder or worry about my personal safety is something I am aware of on the regular. Safety feels like it should be a human right, along with food, love, and the resources […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 57 ft. Adiba Nelson

Episode 57 ft. Adiba Nelson Adiba Nelson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about putting humor in our work, the importance of voice, not worrying what people think, writing about mother-daughter relationships, raising teenagers, when you feel like you have nothing left, emotional labor and choosing when to educate others about her daughter’s disability, […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 56 ft. Jennifer Lang

Episode 56 ft. Jennifer Lang Jennifer Lang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about compressing prose and chopping manuscripts, leaning into the experimental and remembering to play on the page, distilling material, staying nimble-minded, her husband and her becoming characters on the page, founding Israel Writers Studio, and her new memoir Places We Left […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 55 ft. Aileen Weintraub and Megan Margulies

Episode 55 ft. Aileen Weintraub & Megan Margulies The Witches of Pitches are Aileen Weintraub and Megan Margulies here to share their advice about slowing scenes down, remembering that dialogue gives your memoir depth and flavor, finding the other story in your story, creative querying, what building a platform can mean, the power in companion […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 54 ft. Jill Christman

Episode 54 ft. Jill Christman Jill Christman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how our deepest stories can save our lives, approaching trauma-writing as a process of discovery, practical tips for working on difficult material, allowing ourselves as much time as our essays need, finding the truest truth in our work, her role […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 53 ft. Kate Evans

Episode 53 ft. Kate Evans Kate Evans joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being a bit of a wandering writer yet finding the patterns that can emerge from chaos, leaning into momentum while generating work, having her life partner as first reader, her traveling life, the writing retreat she is hosting in April […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 52 ft. Brittany Means

Episode 52 ft. Brittany Means Brittany Means joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up vagrant, writing about child sexual abuse, how she began first with the scenes that haunted her, depicting traumatic material with complexity and compassion, leaning into her narrative voice, when she felt like a writer with a capital “W”, […]