Let’s Talk Memoir
By Ronit Plank
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Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers, and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, editor, and memoirist Ronit Plank, each episode highlights different aspects of the memoir-writing experience, and offers writing tips and inspiration.
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-More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/
-More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE, a short story collection: https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/
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The Gift of a Late Diagnosis and a Life of Service featuring Vickie Rubin
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May 09, 2024 |
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Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow featuring Steve Almond
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May 07, 2024 |
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The Situation and the Story featuring Ms. Vivian Gornick
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Protecting Ourselves When Writing About Others featuring Cait West
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The Arc of Reflection and The Arc of Action featuring Sue William Silverman
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Allowing Ourselves to Be Seen featuring Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The Shame Around Shame and Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia featuring Kate Manne
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Digging to Find a Deeper Story featuring Suzette Mullen
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Trusting Your Readers, Trusting Yourself featuring Mimi Zieman
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Season 4 is here! Writing About Trauma Without Retraumatizing Ourselves featuring Lisa Cooper Ellison
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Having Roots and Losing Them: Writing About the Crisis in Venezuela Through Memoir featuring Paula Ramón
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Guilt, Infertility, and Documenting Reproductive Rights in Memoir featuring Ellen Weir Casey
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The Vulnerability of Writing About Difficult Motherhoods featuring Karen DeBonis
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Loving and Writing About an Imperfect, Magnificent Child featuring Cathy Shields
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Self-Declared Spiritual Gurus, Secret Mantras, and Yoga Cults featuring Joelle Tamraz
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Realizing You’ve Actually Been Writing Your Book featuring Rona Maynard
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Understanding How to Let Go featuring Ann Batchelder
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The Very Good News About Publishing featuring Brooke Warner
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Following Creative Hunches and the Magic of Revision featuring Joni B. Cole
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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How to Capture a Feeling: the Specific and Particular featuring Jane Wong
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Working with Developmental Editors and Book and Proposal Coaches featuring Lisa Niver
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Depicting Complex Relationships and Calibrating Metaphor in Memoir featuring Rosa Lowinger
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Putting Child Loss into Words featuring Eileen Vorbach Collins
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Leaving Season featuring Kelly McMasters
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Memoir on Stage featuring Jamie Brickhouse
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Saying Goodbye and Why We Write About the Hard Things featuring Morgan Baker
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Complicated Family Legacies and Heaps of Material featuring Gretchen Cherington
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Building Bylines, Crafting Book Proposals, and Pursuing Editors featuring Dina Gachman
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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The Stories Landscapes Hold and the Presence of Absence featuring Pamela Petro
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Dear Let’s Talk Memoir listeners,
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Embracing our Writing Seasons featuring Victoria Buitron
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Authenticity, Recovery, and Advocating for Survivors in Memoir featuring Maya Golden
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Memoir in Present Tense and Reprocessing Our Lives Through Writing featuring Sherry Sidoti
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Writing That Gets Noticed featuring Estelle Erasmus
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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When Memoir Brings Loved Ones Closer featuring Lena Lee
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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A Diagnosis, the Toll of Shame, and a Life of Service featuring Martina Clark
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Confronting and Capturing the Complexity of Our Parents on the Page featuring Priscilla Gilman
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Marketing Your Memoir, Preparing for Book Launch, & Going Viral featuring Laura Carney
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Choosing The Scenes That Stay featuring Leslie Ferguson
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Writing About Mother-Daughter Relationships featuring Adiba Nelson
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Memoir in Miniature featuring Jennifer Lang
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Witches of Pitches on Building Platform, Creative Querying, and Stalking Editors featuring Aileen Weintraub and Megan Margulies
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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The Truest Story You Can Tell featuring Jill Christman
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Trusting Patterns Will Emerge featuring Kate Evans
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Approaching Traumatic Material with Complexity and Compassion featuring Brittany Means
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Compressing Material and Managing Timelines featuring LL Kirchner
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Discovering the Narrative Voice Your Memoir Needs featuring Heather Lanier
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Creating a Writing Life on Our Own Terms featuring Patty Lin
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Writing into Structure featuring Clare Frank
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Relentless in Revision featuring Dinty W. Moore
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Still Life at Eighty featuring Abigail Thomas
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Season 3 is launching soon!
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Season 2 is Wrapped!
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May 30, 2023 |
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Intergenerational Trauma & Truth-Telling in Sam Now featuring Reed Harkness
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May 23, 2023 |
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Trusting Our Writing Selves featuring Gayle Brandeis
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May 16, 2023 |
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The Deeply Researched Memoir featuring Jennifer Lunden
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May 09, 2023 |
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden featuring Camille T. Dungy
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Spiritual Memoir featuring Sarah Birnbach
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Processing Grief with Words featuring Candace Cahill
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful featuring Maggie Smith
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Sharing A Dangerous Story featuring Erika Bornman
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Writing What You Have To featuring Sandi Wisenberg
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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From Blog to Book featuring Stacey Freeman
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Excavating Cultural Identity in Memoir featuring Jasmin Faulk-Dickerson
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Finding the Themes in Your Story featuring Debbie Weiss
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The Intersection of Race, Privilege, and Addiction in Memoir featuring Laura Cathcart Robbins
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Language, Lyricism, and Sound featuring Suzanne Roberts
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The Magic of Dialogue featuring Felicia Thai Heath
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Co-Authoring a Memoir featuring Vincent Paterson and Amy Tofte
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Resisting Self-Pity in Memoir featuring Maria Giura
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Protecting What We Create From Our Own Judgment featuring Buick Audra
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Memoir in Essays and Experimental Forms featuring Beth Kephart
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Discovering the Story You Need to Tell featuring Lori L. Tharps
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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The Editor We All Need featuring Allison K. Williams
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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The Acceptance of Imperfection featuring Kathy Curto
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Writing a Memoir About The Mother Who Betrayed You featuring Author Laura Davis
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Inside Passage: The Waterfield Sisters on Their Fractured Childhood and the Redemptive Power of Memoir and Music featuring Keema Waterfield and Tekla Waterfield
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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No Job for a Man featuring John Ross Bowie
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Writing About Family Secrets featuring Isidra Mencos
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Crafting a Braided Memoir featuring Jamie Gehring
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Role of the Reflective Narrator featuring Lily Dunn
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Voice First featuring Sonya Huber
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Season 2 launching soon!
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Memory, Truth, and Memoir featuring Dr. Virginia Campbell
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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The Divided Self in Memoir featuring Phillip Lopate
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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The Case for Generosity in Memoir featuring Judy Bolton-Fasman
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May 31, 2022 |
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Making Your Manuscript Shimmer featuring Laura Davis
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May 24, 2022 |
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Yes, Your Writing Has Value featuring Paulette Perhach
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May 17, 2022 |
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The Merits of Writing About Trauma with Restraint featuring Kelly Sundberg
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May 10, 2022 |
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Writing About Our Children featuring Debi Lewis
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May 03, 2022 |
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A Conversation with Writing and Publishing Expert Jane Friedman
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Writing Your Story for Yourself featuring Melissa Gould
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Not Too Soon, Not Too Much: Stories That Insist on Being Told featuring Meg Weber
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Doing Whatever it Takes to Get Yourself to Write featuring Andrea Ross
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Finding the Thread featuring Ellen Blum Barish
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Putting it All on the Page: The Good, the Bad, and the Heartwrenching featuring Christie Tate
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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The Transformation of Trauma featuring Jeannine Ouellette
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Who Am ”I”?--Character vs. Narrator featuring Debra Gwartney
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Trailer: Let’s Talk Memoir
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Mar 02, 2022 |