Ronit Plank

If you’ll be at AWP next week, I hope you’ll come visit me at Prose Playgroun’s table T124.✨

I will have my memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK and my short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE for sale and signing, let’s Talk Memoir, T-shirts for sale, and some fun stickers. 🎉
Stop by and say hi!

February’s Substack is here!

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Writing memoir can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone. ✨

I have lots of free resources available like my podcast & Substack Let’s Talk Memoir also have a 10-week online class coming up this spring.

Links to all of these resources are here linktr.ee/RonitPlank

Yes, memoir readers are on the hunt and this is how you can create a more satisfying story.

Here’s my latest Let’s Talk Memoir Substack.

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A fresh Let’s Talk Memoir Substack, out now. 🧡

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Finding your voice in memoir can be one of the most challenging aspects of the genre but you don’t have to do it alone.

You can listen to Let’s Talk Memoir the podcast, read Let’s Talk Memoir the Substack & my 10-week online course is enrolling now.

Here’s a link to all: linktr.ee/RonitPlank

Searching for Change on the Page What narrator-you can do for character-you

Harnessing the reflective voice in memoir can be one of the most challenging aspects of this genre. Arriving at a character-you & narrator-you that work in concert is key to building tension in your narrative & unfurling your story of becoming in evocative ways.

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My January Substack is here!

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Episode 222 ft. Anna Rollins Anna Rollins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the relationship between evangelical purity culture and diet culture, incorporating research and reporting into personal narrative, the in...

@annajrollins.bsky.social @Anna Rollins Let’s Talk Memoir to share her publishing and marketing tips:

-writing memoir plus

-tying our work to the culture

-learning how to pitch and get bylines

-the logistics of placing short pieces in large outlets

and more!

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January’s Let’s Talk Memoir newsletter comes out this week. 🎉

If you have a memoir craft or publishing question you’d like me to answer, you can message me or leave it in the comments. 🧡

Subscribe here:

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Thank you for this #LetsTalkMemoirPodcast review, Bikergirl711 ! Wherever you are in this big, fierce, magical world, I’m sending my gratitude out to you. I’m so happy you enjoy the show and truly appreciate this review.🧡

Steven Eichenblatt joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing about and processing old, longstanding anger and his new memoir PRETEND THEY ARE DEAD.
Here is the episode:

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A fresh episode of Let’s Talk Memoir featuring Steven Eichenblatt who joins me to talk about losing a father through abandonment, Learning to help ourselves, and his new memoir Pretend They Are Dead.

On your favorite podcast platform and here:

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"There is literally no way - no capacity, no possibility, no healthy way to build a relationship with an abusive person."

@camilleuadams.bsky.social on Let’s Talk Memoir ep. 220: How to Be Unmothered: Escaping Enmeshment, Going No Contact, and Cocooning Ourselves

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I’m so happy you enjoyed it. @camilleuadams.bsky.social was wonderful to talk with.
Thank you for listening, Susan!

HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: Escaping Enmeshment, Going No Contact, and Cocooning Ourselves featuring @camilleuadams.bsky.social
on this episode of Let’s Talk Memoir.
Listen here:

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Friday Speak Out!: Are you writing an autobiography or a memoir? By Ronit Plank One of the first topics I cover in my memoir writing classes is the difference between autobiography and memoir. Because they...

500 words on one of my favorite subjects: Are you writing a memoir or an autobiography?

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Selective and discerning creatures of craft How we search for meaning

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Loved this interview. Thank you so much, Ben!

Telling Our Stories, Fighting for Joy Memoir writing resources, submission calls, and a class

Telling Our Stories, Fighting for Joy: My Let’s Talk Memoir November Substack is here with memoir writing resources, submission calls, holiday gift ideas, and a class.🎉

Read it here:

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I’ve got a new online memoir class forming now!

You can check out this offering here: www.pce.uw.edu/courses/memo...

Let's Talk Memoir | Ronit Plank | Substack Welcome to Let's Talk Memoir where you can find the latest on Let's Talk Memoir podcast, my upcoming workshops, memoir writing tools & encouragement, & support for memoirists at all stages of the mem...

November’s Let’s Talk Memoir Substack will be out tomorrow and there’s no paywall to subscribe.🎉

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I’m very pleased to share my conversation with Edgar Gomez
who joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about his memoir ALLIGATOR TEARS and writing about others with nuance and complexity.

Thank you so much for being my guest, Edgar!

Here is the complete episode:

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Registration is open!

My 10-week online class Memoir Writing: Finding Your Story begins 3.30.26 💥

Class meets: March 30-June 8

6pm-9pm PT through the University of Washington Continuing Education.

Registration/info here:

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What will you do with your story? This is a big one - buckle up

Readers will appreciate your memoir not because of the situation you survived which countless humans have also lived through, but because of the meaning you make from it and the universal in what you capture.

A fresh Let’s Talk Memoir Substack:
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What will you do with your story? This is a big one - buckle up

What will you do with your story?
My October Substack is here with answers to questions about finding the singularity in our memoir manuscript, considering publishing options, and a new class offering!

Buckle up, this is a big one.💥

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Let's Talk Memoir | Ronit Plank | Substack Welcome to Let's Talk Memoir where you can find the latest on Let's Talk Memoir podcast, my upcoming workshops, memoir writing tools & encouragement, & support for memoirists at all stages of the mem...

I’m nearly ready to post October’s Let’s Talk Memoir Substack. You can subscribe and share with your for memoir writing friends for free here:

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A joy to be able to talk with you, Camille. Your voice, your words, your willingness to delve and unearth made this interview illuminating, affirming and so very crafty. Thank you for being my guest.🧡🧡🧡
Can’t wait to share our conversation!

What good fortune to get to talk with @suewsilverman.bsky.social on Let’s Talk Memoir about flash essays, metaphor, and her newest book SELECTED MISDEMEANORS.

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Loved talking with you, Gina!