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Memoir coach and author Marion Roach

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How to Revisit and Write About Trauma, with Author Ani Gjika

ANI GJIKA IS AN Albanian-born literary translator, writer, poet and and author who moved to the US at age 18 and earned an MA in English at Simmons College and an MFA in poetry at Boston University. … [Read more...] about How to Revisit and Write About Trauma, with Author Ani Gjika

How to Write with Vulnerability, with Meg Kissinger

  MEG KISSINGER KNOWS HOW to write with vulnerability. After years of work as an award-winning reporter, she has brought her eye to a memoir of family mental illness. Listen in and read … [Read more...] about How to Write with Vulnerability, with Meg Kissinger

How to Write the Book You Want to Read, with Taylor Brorby

TAYLOR BRORBY KNOWS  about writing into a space that does not exist. An author and activist, his new book, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, covers a space that is rarely, if ever, … [Read more...] about How to Write the Book You Want to Read, with Taylor Brorby

The Value of Writing Our Stories with Felice Cohen

FELICE COHEN IS A PUBLISHING POLYMATH. She knows about many things and has written about them, lectures about them, thereby defying all the laws of publishing that usually advise a writer to stay in … [Read more...] about The Value of Writing Our Stories with Felice Cohen

How to Write With Authority with Kate Cohen

  KATE COHEN IS A contributing columnist for The Washington Post. She's the author of three books, including We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should … [Read more...] about How to Write With Authority with Kate Cohen

How to Write a Memoir with Bestselling Author Joanna Penn

THE LAST TIME I interviewed her for QWERTY, I opened by saying that it's possible that Joanna Penn is the hardest working writer on Earth. Well, now I'm sure of it. Considered an authority on writing … [Read more...] about How to Write a Memoir with Bestselling Author Joanna Penn

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