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How to Write the Voices of the Dead, with Lissa SoepLISSA SOEP KNOWS HOW to reanimate the voices of the dead, and she is here to teach you how to get those voices into your memoir writing. As a...
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On The Importance of Writing About Change, with Alicia D. WilliamsSTORYTELLER, ACTOR, AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, Alicia D. Williams is the author of the book, Genesis Begins Again, which received the Newbery and...
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How to Write a Book-Length Memoir in Essays, with Michael JaminMICHAEL JAMIN IS AN Emmy-award winning screenwriter who has been writing for television since 1996. His credits include “Just Shoot...
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What Makes a Great Book to Write, with Bestselling Author Janet Skeslian CharlesJANET SKESLIAN CHARLES IS a New York Times and international bestselling author whose work has been translated into 37 languages. Her shorter work...
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How to Write LGBTQIA+ Books for Teens, With Hal SchrieveHAL SCHRIEVE IS THE author of the 2019 book Out of Salem, selected for the National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature. Hal...
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When is the Time Right to Write a Piece? With Suzette MullenSUZETTE MULLEN IS THE author of the recent memoir, The Only Way Through Is Out, just out from University of Wisconsin Press. She’s the...
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How to Write About American Culture, with Kevin BakerKEVIN BAKER IS AN HISTORIAN, novelist, political commentator and journalist. The author of six novels, he has authored and co-authored numerous...
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How to Revisit and Write About Trauma, with Author Ani GjikaANI GJIKA IS AN Albanian-born literary translator, writer, poet and and author who moved to the US at age 18 and earned an MA in English at...
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How to Write with Vulnerability, with Meg KissingerMEG KISSINGER KNOWS HOW to write with vulnerability. After years of work as an award-winning reporter, she has brought her eye to a memoir...
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How to Write the Book You Want to Read, with Taylor BrorbyTAYLOR BRORBY KNOWS about writing into a space that does not exist. An author and activist, his new book, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a...
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The Value of Writing Our Stories with Felice CohenFELICE COHEN IS A PUBLISHING POLYMATH. She knows about many things and has written about them, lectures about them, thereby defying all the laws...
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How to Write With Authority with Kate CohenKATE COHEN IS A contributing columnist for The Washington Post. She’s the author of three books, including We of Little Faith: Why I...
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How to Write a Memoir with Bestselling Author Joanna PennTHE LAST TIME I interviewed her for QWERTY, I opened by saying that it’s possible that Joanna Penn is the hardest working writer on Earth....
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How to Write A Difficult Family Story, with Kristin Jarvis AdamsKRISTIN JARVIS ADAMS knows how to write a difficult family story and make it work for the reader. Listen in and read along as we discuss...
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How to Write Into Others’ Biases with Virginia Sole-SmithVIRGINIA SOLE-SMITH IS a New York Times bestselling author whose reporting on diet culture, health and parenting has appeared in The New...
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How Many Drafts Do You Need? Listen to Allison K. WilliamsALLISON K. WILLIAMS IS a master at what she does. Her work is engaging, helpful, instructive and wonderful to read. Her voice, which...
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How to Write The Book You Want to Read, with Kerri MaherWHEN KERRI MAHER SET out to write a book about writing, she was following the great dictum to write the book you want to read. She followed...
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Writing About What You Don’t Know with Matt MendezLIKE EVERY OTHER WRITER, author Matt Mendez knows the saying to “write what you know,” though he is far more invested in writing about...
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The Role of Vulnerability in WritingAS SOMEONE WHO TEACHES online memoir classes, I take a lot of questions on the fly. And, I admit, after all these years, I have many ready-made...
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How to Break Into Publishing in a Non-Traditional Way, with Roxan McDonaldHOW TO BREAK INTO publishing in a non-traditional way is the area of expertise of Roxan McDonald, who quit the nonprofit world to dedicate herself...
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How to Write Memoir About a Troubled Family with Alice CarrièreALICE CARRIÉRE WAS NERVOUS about our podcast interview. She was inexperienced in being interviewed and worried that she would not do well. Listen...
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How to Use Genealogy in MemoirAs a memoir coach, memoir teacher and memoir editor, I spend a great amount of time talking people out of writing mere genealogy. When new to...
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Top Myths About WritingMY FATHER WAS A sportswriter who agonized over every line he typed. He met my mother, who was also a journalist, because he was the slowest writer...
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How to Write Memoir From the Middle of the Mess with Michele CushattAS AN EXPERIENCED communicator, Michele Cushatt speaks internationally to a wide variety of audiences and has published three previous books,...
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How to Start a MemoirIf, like me, you have a place in your house that looks like the photo above, you also have the perfect metaphor for how to start a memoir. From my...
