Weekly:
Show Up & Write (every Thursday and Sunday)
Every Sunday @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET — Sunday Show Up & Write with Brooke
Every Thursday @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET — Thursday Show Up & Write (with Grant)
—Show Up & Write is a biweekly accountability group run by Grant and Thursdays and Brooke on Sundays. This is a Path #3 membership benefit and you can come as frequently or infrequently as you wish. We gather together to write on Zoom. Each session begins with an inspirational message from Grant or Brooke and there's time to share at the end.
Monthly:
Feedback Friday (one Friday a month)
Next Feedback Friday: Date coming soon!
Book Club (dates fluctuate)
Next Book Club: July 10 – Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
—Book Club is a monthly get-together hosted by Shway Modi. Book Club meeting times and the book club pick will be announced month to month. Book Club is included as a Path #3 membership benefit.
Monthly Classes
July 20 @ 3pm PT / 6pm ET — Where Are We Now? Mastering Time in Memoir with Brooke Warner
August 18 @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET — Writing with Vulnerability with Grant Faulkner
Sept 22 @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET — Writing Shame: Crafting Stories out of Silence with Victoria Chang (author of With My Back to the World, OBIT, and Dear, Memory)
Oct 13 @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET — Structuring Your Memoir with 12 Questions with Francesca Lia Block (author of The Thorn Necklace: Healing through Writing and the Creative Process and Guarding the Moon)
Nov 10 @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET — Who Am “I”: Character, Narrator, and Finding Your Memoir’s Voice with Ronit Plank (author of When She Comes Back)
—Memoir Nation's monthly class information and biographical info about who these amazing teachers/authors are can be found on our CLASSES page. All monthly classes (including the archive of all past classes) come with your Path #3 membership. Path #2 includes one free class with membership, or you can sign up for any class a la carte.
Quarterly
Writing About Other People Support Group with Sara Roahen
Mining the Depths Writing Circle with Ronit Plank
Grant's Generative Writing
Craft Corner with Brooke Warner
—These quarterly events are accessible to you once you sign up for your Path #3 membership. Memoir Nation is grateful for Sara Roahen and Ronit Plank for making themselves available for these respective support groups and writing circles.
Sara Roahen writes, edits, coaches, teaches, and helps authors create and publish books.Her memoir, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, was the chosen reading for the One Book One New Orleans reading initiative in 2009, and it received the Louisiana Library Association’s Louisiana Literary Award in 2010. Sara co-edited and contributed writing to The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook, and is the author of How to Begin Writing Your Life Stories: Putting Memories on the Page and the forthcoming Memories on the Page: A Year of Tips and Prompts for Memoir and Life Story Writers.
Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Salon, Hippocampus, The New York Times, and elsewhere, earning Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Kirkus called her debut memoir, When She Comes Back, “an intimate, intuitive, emotionally vivid family account that finds hope in reconciliation.” Ronit is also the author of the award-winning short story collection Home is a Made-Up Place. She teaches memoir independently for the University of Washington’s Continuum Program, and is host of the podcast Let’s Talk Memoir and the Substack Let’s Talk Memoir. Find her on social media @ronitplank.