Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers Podcast
1) Jordan Carlos on Writing Memoir as a Portal to Self-Betterment
This week’s episode is a meditation on partnership and all the ways there are to both attend to your partner and to fail. In his new book Choreplay, author Jordan Carlos calls himself out for some of ...Show More
2) Sarah Aziza on Memoir as a Work of Art
Much like guest Sarah Aziza’s beautiful memoir, The Hollow Half, this week’s show covers a lot of territory and shines light on multiple topics of interest to memoirists. We explore memoir as art—what...Show More
3) Karen Palmer on Catalyst Moments as Inspiration for Memoir
This week’s episode touches upon so many interesting topics for memoirists—from catalyst moments that create the foundational stories of our memoirs; to the ways we can prism experience through “befor...Show More
4) #ReadingAfrica: A Panel with Sahra Noor, Joanne Bloch, Colleen Higgs, and Patrice Nganang
This week Memoir Nation has the privilege of elevating the voices of four African-born authors who were part of a panel conversation with Brooke back in December. This was part of #ReadingAfricaWeek, ...Show More
5) Andre Dubus III on Responsibility, Exposure, and Harm in Memoir Writing
This week’s episode is sweeping, interesting, and passionate. Guest Andre Dubus III takes us on a ride through some of memoir’s more confounding territory—what’s yours to tell; considerations of harm;...Show More
6) Suzette Partido on Writing About the Challenges We Face While Holding onto Hope and Possibility
This week’s Memoir Nation show shares a story of poverty, and shines light on a particular kind of story that’s much more prevalent than many of us would like to think. Guest Suzette Partido writes in...Show More
7) Jose Antonio Vargas on Life in a Country That Says You Don’t Belong
This week’s episode is a timely one—an interview with Jose Antonio Vargas, who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant when he started his nonprofit, Define American. His memoir is Dear America, wh...Show More
8) Memoir Nation Greatest Hits, 2018-2025
Memoir Nation is ringing in the new year with some of our greatest hits. We’ve gone into the archives and chosen a clip from a handful of our favorite guests over the years. Listening to each of these...Show More
9) Grant and Brooke on How to Keep Doing What You Say You Want to Do—and Write and Finish Your Memoir (JanYourStory Prep)
JanYourStory is starting this week! And since this show falls at the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, Grant and Brooke are picking up from where they left off last week (how to start) to focus o...Show More
10) Brooke & Grant on How to Start or Restart Your Memoir (JanYourStory Prep)
This week we’re in full prep mode to write write write in January for our JanYourStory writing challenge. With that in mind, Brooke and and Grant tackle beginnings. How to start isn’t limited to how t...Show More