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 Nov 202346min
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 Nov 202347min
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 Nov 202335min
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 Okt 202336min
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 Okt 202347min
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 Okt 202336min
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 Okt 202331min
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 Okt 202335min
