16. Voice First featuring Sonya Huber

16. Voice First featuring Sonya Huber

Sonya Huber joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about structure and time in memoir, the challenge of getting to the core of who we are and facing ourselves on the page, how her perspective on “voice” has changed over time and why that drove her to write her new book Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto.

Also in this episode:

-the power of shame to silence us

-how “authentic” voice might not mean what we think

-a writing exercise to help jumpstart your work

Books mentioned in this episode:

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Mezzanine by Nicholas Baker

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Jjames Agee

Writers: Andrew Monson and Peter Elbow

Sonya Huber is the author of seven books, including the new guide, Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto, and the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.

Connect with Sonya:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sonyahuber

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sonya.huber/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonyahuber/

Website: www.sonyahuber.com

Sonya's books: https://bookshop.org/lists/sonya-huber-s-books

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Ronit is a teacher and speaker whose essays, creative nonfiction, 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 a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2023. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.

More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com

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

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

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Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

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