I’ve got some exciting Let’s Talk Memoir news coming up as well as new memoir writing offerings I’ll be announcing soon. 🎉
To stay up on the latest find me on Substack @ Ronit Plank and subscribe there to my Let’s Talk Memoir newsletter — there’s no paywall.🧡
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So many aspects of writing memoir can be exciting, complex, and confusing that it’s hard for me to pick which parts challenge writers the most.
Writing memoir is also incredibly rewarding and can lead you in creative and emotional directions you may never have imagined.
While doing this work, you can tune in to my podcast #LetsTalkMemoir and read my Substack Let’s Talk Memoir for writing advice, tools, and resources. 🧡You don’t have to write memoir alone.🧡
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My memoir When She Comes Back was the first of my books to come out even though years ago when I was writing fiction I never dreamed I’d tell the story of my childhood through nonfiction.
Writing this memoir introduced me to memoir craft and helped me understand the dynamism in this genre; the process taught me that excavating our experience and shaping it through our unique lens is not only an act of creativity but empowerment too.
In writing this memoir I discovered my patterns and the patterns in my family, I saw my parents’ experience in new ways, and I learned how to love myself more.
#WhenSheComesBackMemoir is available wherever you get books and is available as an audiobook which I narrated.
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An absolute joy to moderate this panel Putting Mom on the Page (Without Getting Grounded) at the @woodinvillelibrarykcls featuring memoirists @gretchenstaebler@walkermemoir and @forget_the_fairy_tale
Thank you to librarian Dovi Liu for hosting this lovely event, to the Woodinville Library for having us, and to @debmillertime for creating this panel.
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I’m so excited to announce that season 8 of #LetsTalkMemoir begins this Tuesday!! 🎉
Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast featuring interviews with memoir writers and writing teachers, now with 240 episodes available on all podcast platforms. 🎧
Let’s Talk Memoir is also a Substack with dozens of articles on memoir craft and Q&A with subscribers every month with no paywall.📝
Let’s Talk Memoir is also a community of generous and insightful writers who have experienced how memoir can change lives for ourselves and for our readers.🧡
Thank you for your support these last four years, for sharing Let’s Talk Memoir with your writing friends, and for your ratings and reviews. ❤️
💥There’s lots more in store coming this year that I’ll be announcing on the podcast and on the Substack. Subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.✨
Until Tuesday, xoxoxoox
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“PART OF WHY I LOVE NONFICTION SO MUCH IS THAT I’M DANCING WITH MY MEMORY AND I’M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY I REMEMBER CERTAIN DETAILS OVER OTHER DETAILS AND WHY THESE DETAILS STICK OUT FOR ME AND WHY THEY’RE MEANINGFUL FOR ME.”
- Monica Macansantos
Thank you, @madamebutchay for joining me on Episode 240 of Let’s Talk Memoir. I loved talking with you about deepening our narrative journeys and your new book RETURNING TO MY FATHER’S KITCHEN. #LetsTalkMemoir is on all podcast platforms.✨
I’m so pleased to share my interview with Dr. Craig Yorke who joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about about the toll of centuries of bigotry, being consumed by race, growing up with psychological financial desperation, inviting people to wake up to how our history has controlled us, delighting in surprise, and his new memoir: STEEP: A Black Neurosurgeon’s Journey.
You can listen to #LetsTalkMemoir on your favorite podcast platform.✨
As you embark on your memoir project, l encourage you to write like no one will read your words... make room for yourself while you dissect and reflect upon your lived experience and why it matters now. This time is only for you.
Thank you @the_shit_about_writing for including my latest in your latest: “Writing memoir is daunting for many reasons, including the anxiety that someone who appears in the work, will eventually read it. Ronit Plank has some tips for overcoming that fear, in today’s
essay!”
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I’m so pleased to share my interview with Monica Macansantos who joins me on Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in a colonized land, leaning into the discomfort of writing, giving shape to grief, taking risks, and her new essay collection Returning to My Father’s Kitchen.
Thank you, Monica, for being my guest. I loved this time with you.
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It’s time for #35 with Ronit Plank. Funny story, there are actually 2 parts to this episode because, before I was very experienced with Instagram Live I would sometimes get overwhelmed and confused and this is one of those times. I thought Ronit’s beautiful poem and our conversation had disappeared and it kinda did but not permanently. I didn’t know how to recover it right then so Ronit was kind and generous enough to just go ahead and do it again. Ronit is awesome that way. Love you!
Go ahead and enjoy one or two parts, it’s up to you!
And thank you to producer, Paul and Ria, for being generous and wonderful. It’s thanks to you this podcast exists.
“I THINK BEING ABLE AT THIS AGE AND AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE TO OWN MY STORY IS EMPOWERING, IT’S VULNERABLE. IT’S DEFINITELY SCARY BUT IT’S ALSO FREEING.”
- Jacque Gorelick
I’m so pleased to share my conversation with @jacgorelick who joins Let’s Talk Memoir episode 239 to share about her new memoir Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home.
You can listen on your favorite podcast platform.
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