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:
Book Club (dates fluctuate)
Feb 27 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET — Book Club: Strangers by Belle Burden (monthly event)
March TBD – Voting for next book club pick is open
—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 Class Schedule
March 16 @ 3pm PT / 6pm ET — Time at the Speed of Epiphany with Sue William Silverman (author of Love Sick and How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences)
April 16 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET — The Story of Our Lives: Writing Toward What Matters with Mark Nepo (author of The Book of Awakening and 22 other books)
May 21 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET — Marketing for Memoirists with Fauzia Burke
June 11 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET — The "Give a Shit" Factor: Writing Memoirs That Matter with Marya Hornbacher (author of Wasted and Madness)
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)
—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 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
Feb 23 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET — Writing About Other People Support Group with Sara Roahen
Mar 19 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET — Mining the Depths Writing Circle with Ronit Plank
Mar 24 @ 3pm PT / 6pm ET — Grant's Generative Writing
Apr 7 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET — 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.