Let’s Talk Memoir

De: Ronit Plank
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  • Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers, and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, editor, and teacher Ronit Plank, each episode highlights different aspects of the memoir-writing experience, and offers writing tips and inspiration. Ronit is the author of the award-winning story collection Home is a Made-Up Place and the memoir When She Comes Back about the loss of her mother to the guru at the center of Netflix’s docuseries Wild Wild Country and their eventual reconciliation. For more memoir advice, workshops, and encouragement find Let’s Talk Memoir and Ronit on Substack, Instagram, and at ronitplank.com
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  • 164. A Memoir with Reflection and Prompts featuring Diana Raab

    164. A Memoir with Reflection and Prompts featuring Diana Raab
    Apr 17 2025

    Diana Raab joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about connecting with ancestors and tuning into their guidance, books that need to be written, when publisher requests don’t resonate with us, adding prompts for readers, unwanted daughters and intergenerational trauma, how books we don’t like help us, adding prompts for readers, tapping into authentic voice, and her new book Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors.

    Also in this episode:

    -reading broadly

    -surviving cancer multiple times

    -how trauma manifests later in life

    Book mentioned in this episode:

    This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff

    Paula by Isabel Allende

    Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick

    Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

    Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

    Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a poet, memoirist, workshop leader, thought-leader and award-winning author of fourteen books. Her work has been widely published and anthologized. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. She frequently speaks and writes on writing for healing and transformation. Her 14th and newest book is Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors, A memoir with reflection and writing prompts (2024).Raab writes for Psychology Today, The Good Men Project, Sixty and Me, Thrive Global, and is a guest writer for many others.

    Connect with Diana:

    Website: https://www.dianaraab.com

    Forthcoming poetry anthology:

    https://gunpowderpress.com/product/women-in-a-golden-state/

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

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-raab-phd-a1850911/

    Facebook (Author): https://www.facebook.com/DianaRaab.Author/

    Facebook (Diana M Raab): https://www.facebook.com/diana.m.raab/

    Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/512931.Diana_Raab

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/dianaraab1

    Diana’s monthly newsletter: https://dianaraab.com/signup/

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    Ronit’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, 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 the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.

    She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book.

    More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com

    Subscribe to Ronit’s Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank

    Follow Ronit:

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

    https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank

    https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

    Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

    Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography

    Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers
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  • 163. Losing Mothers and Finding Them Again Through Memoir featuring Rebe Huntman

    163. Losing Mothers and Finding Them Again Through Memoir featuring Rebe Huntman
    Apr 15 2025

    Rebe Huntman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about who are we as women and what holds us together as a culture, following questions to their conclusions and changing in the process, running away from grief, magical thinking, reinventing ourselves, Afro-Cuban traditions and relationships to the dead, hungering for answers, permission to be more than one thing, losing mothers and finding them again through memoir, spiritual mothers and keeping the dead close, and her new memoir My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle.

    Also in this episode:

    -getting a do over

    -trusting the writing process

    -including the beautiful and the terrible

    Books mentioned in this episode:

    When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

    The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

    Poetry by Richard Blanco

    Poetry by Aracelis Girmay

    REBE HUNTMAN is the author of My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle (February 2025, Monkfish Books), a memoir that traces her search to connect with her mother—thirty years after her death—among the gods and saints of Cuba. A former professional Latin and Afro-Cuban dancer and choreographer, for over a decade Rebe directed Chicago’s award-winning Danza Viva Center for World Dance, Art & Music and its resident dance company, One World Dance Theater. She collaborates with native artists in Cuba and South America, and has been featured in LATINA Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, and on Fox and ABC. Rebe’s essays, stories, and poems appear or are forthcoming in such places as The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Parabola, Ninth Letter, The Cincinnati Review, and the PINCH, and have earned her an Ohio Individual Excellence Award as well as fellowships from the Macondo Writers' Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, PLAYA Residency, Hambidge Center, and Brush Creek Foundation. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from The Ohio State University and lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Delaware, Ohio. Both e’s in her name are long. Find her at www. rebehuntman.com and on Instagram at @rebehuntman.

    Connect with Rebe:

    Website: www.rebehuntman.com

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

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebehuntmanauthor

    Links to purchase the book at www.rebehuntman.com/mymotherinhavana

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    Ronit’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, 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 the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.

    She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book.

    More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com

    Subscribe to Ronit’s Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank

    Follow Ronit:

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

    https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank

    https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

    Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

    Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography

    Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers
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  • 162. Finding Patterns and Switching Lenses featuring Bridgett M. Davis

    162. Finding Patterns and Switching Lenses featuring Bridgett M. Davis
    Apr 8 2025
    Bridgett M. Davis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effect of trauma and weathering on Black lives, the unique bond between sisters, showing relationships in action and dialogue, homing in on a throughline, giving our books and writing the space they need,finding patterns and switching lenses, exploring varying lived experiences within family structures, shedding light on Lupus, the physiological effects of systemic racism, Black maternal mortality, moments of heartbreak, asking important narrative questions early on, the letters her sister wrote to her, and her new memoir Love, Rita. Also in this episode: -birth order -getting a book optioned or film -shifting points of view Books mentioned in this episode: -The Situations and the Story by Vivian Gornick -Inventing the Truth by William Zisner -The Yellow House by Sarah -Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway -The Invisible Kingdom by Megan O’Rourke -Fairy Land by Alisha Abbott -Gather Me by Glory Adams Bridgett M. Davis (pronounced Brih-jet) is the author of the memoir, Love, Rita, published by Harper Books in spring 2025.Her first memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine, and featured as a clue on the quiz show Jeopardy! The upcoming film adaptation will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures. She is author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow, named a Best Book of 2014 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and Shifting Through Neutral, shortlisted for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. Davis is also writer/director of the 1996 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored and released to critical acclaim, screening in theaters across the US and globally and now available on DVD, Blu Ray and select streaming services. Davis is Professor Emerita in the journalism department at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she has taught creative, narrative and film writing. Her essays have appeared most recently in The New York Times, the LA Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia Journalism School, she lives in Brooklyn with her family. Visit her website at www.bridgettdavis.com.\ Connect with Bridgett: Website: bridgettdavis.com Facebook: bridgettdavis Bluesky: bridgettmdavis.bsky.social IG: https://www.instagram.com/bridgett_d substack: bridgettmdavis.substack.com Links for book purchase: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/love-rita-bridgett-m-davis?variant=43263953174562 Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-rita-a-sister-s-story-bridgett-m-davis/21696108 – Ronit’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, 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 the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit’s Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers
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In every podcast there are gems for anyone writing their memoir. Ronit is a master at interviewing because she’s curious about her guests and their writing journey. Each guest is unique and varied, all sharing POV’s on the wins and struggles of writing. Let’s Talk Memoir gives me inspiration to keep on writing!

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