210 Episodes

  1. Don’t Let Your Comfort Zone Become Your Doom Zone, featuring Joshua Mohr

    Published: 10/7/2024
  2. How to Be Compulsively Readable, featuring Anne Lamott

    Published: 9/30/2024
  3. The Era of Banning Librarians, featuring Amanda Jones

    Published: 9/23/2024
  4. The Rejection Episode, featuring Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner

    Published: 9/16/2024
  5. Unclassifiable and Uncontainable: In Celebration of Art That Can’t Be Pinned Down, featuring Brontez Purnell

    Published: 9/9/2024
  6. Structure and Form, featuring Jane Alison

    Published: 9/2/2024
  7. New Ways of Thinking About Memoir, featuring Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa

    Published: 8/26/2024
  8. Fiction Outliers, featuring Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas

    Published: 8/19/2024
  9. Self-Exposure and Writing the Story You Have to Write, featuring Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito

    Published: 8/12/2024
  10. Wisdom from the Publishing Trenches, featuring Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt

    Published: 8/5/2024
  11. Getting Reinspired after Failed or Abandoned Book Projects, featuring Paolo Bacigalupi

    Published: 7/29/2024
  12. Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein

    Published: 7/22/2024
  13. How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee

    Published: 7/15/2024
  14. On the Awards We Receive and the Rewards We Make, featuring Jayne Anne Phillips

    Published: 7/8/2024
  15. How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong

    Published: 7/1/2024
  16. Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa

    Published: 6/24/2024
  17. The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg

    Published: 6/17/2024
  18. Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Published: 6/10/2024
  19. Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook

    Published: 6/3/2024
  20. Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton

    Published: 5/27/2024

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Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey. Originally launched as Write-minded in 2018, this is a weekly writing podcast that focuses on memoir and personal writing, as well as industry trends and tips and resources for writers and authors.  Memoir Nation features a segment called Substackin’ at the end of each episode to talk about topics, ideas, trends, and writerly inspirations that Brooke and Grant are tracking in their weekly Substacks (Writerly Things and Intimations). Brooke and Grant bring to this weekly podcast their deeply held belief that everyone is a writer, and everyone’s story matters. Discover more about Memoir Nation at memoirnation.com.