2. The Transformation of Trauma featuring Jeannine Ouellette
Let’s Talk Memoir15 Maalis 2022

2. The Transformation of Trauma featuring Jeannine Ouellette

Jeannine Ouellette joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the power of literary constraints, why the how can be just as important as the what, writing about childhood sexual abuse, believing in your project when publishing gatekeepers don’t seem to, and why sad stories can make us happy,

Also in this episode:

-poetic technique

-mother wounds

-finding your voice

Memoirs/Books mentioned in this episode:

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Alison

Jeannine Ouellette’s memoir, The Part That Burns, was a 2021 Kirkus Best 100 Indie Book and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award, with starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Her work appears widely in literary journals and anthologies, including Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men; Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives; and Passed On: Daughters Write About Father Loss, Lack, and Legacy. She teaches through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, The University of Minnesota, and Elephant Rock, a writing program she founded in 2012. She is working on her first novel.

Connect with Jeannine:

https://www.jeannineouellette.com

https://www.instagram.com/msjeannineouellette/

Essay on craft by Jeannine Ouellette in Cleaver:

Ronit’s essays and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in both the 2021 Best Book Awards and the 2021 Book of the Year Award and a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022. She is host and producer of the podcasts And Then Everything Changed and The Body Myth.

More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com

More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/

Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd

Follow Ronit:

https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/

https://twitter.com/RonitPlank

https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank

Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography

Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

Jaksot(237)

58. Choosing The Scenes That Stay featuring Leslie Ferguson

58. Choosing The Scenes That Stay featuring 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 attac...

14 Marras 202346min

57. Writing About Mother-Daughter Relationships featuring Adiba Nelson

57. Writing About Mother-Daughter Relationships featuring 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 t...

7 Marras 202347min

56. Memoir in Miniature featuring Jennifer Lang

56. Memoir in Miniature featuring Jennifer Lang

Jennifer Lang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about compressing prose and chopping manuscripts, leaning into the experimental, distilling material, staying nimble-minded, her husband and he...

2 Marras 202335min

55. The Witches of Pitches on Building Platform, Creative Querying, and Stalking Editors featuring Aileen Weintraub and Megan Margulies

55. The Witches of Pitches on Building Platform, Creative Querying, and Stalking Editors featuring Aileen Weintraub and 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 st...

31 Loka 202336min

54. The Truest Story You Can Tell featuring Jill Christman

54. The Truest Story You Can Tell featuring 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 difficul...

24 Loka 202347min

53. Trusting Patterns Will Emerge featuring Kate Evans

53. Trusting Patterns Will Emerge featuring 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 h...

17 Loka 202336min

52. Approaching Traumatic Material with Complexity and Compassion featuring Brittany Means

52. Approaching Traumatic Material with Complexity and Compassion featuring Brittany Means

Brittany Means joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up vagrant, writing about child sexual abuse, how she started with the scenes that haunted her, depicting traumatic material wit...

10 Loka 202331min

51. Compressing Material and Managing Timelines featuring LL Kirchner

51. Compressing Material and Managing Timelines featuring LL Kirchner

LL Kirchner joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about compressing material and managing timelines, writing about addiction and recovery, radical compassion, polyamory, yoga scandals and sex cul...

5 Loka 202335min

Suosittua kategoriassa Koulutus

rss-murhan-anatomia
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
psykopodiaa-podcast
rss-narsisti
rss-liian-kuuma-peruna
adhd-podi
rss-eron-alkemiaa
rahapuhetta
aamukahvilla
kesken
rss-duodecim-lehti
rss-koira-haudattuna
psykologia
rss-tietoinen-yhteys-podcast-2
rss-vapaudu-voimaasi
rss-finnish-daily-dialogues
rss-niinku-asia-on
rss-onks-ok
rss-luonnollinen-synnytys-podcast
rss-arkea-ja-aurinkoa-podcast-espanjasta