Estelle

#133 Writing the Book You Need to Read When You’re Always Happy to Help

Estelle Erasmus chats with Amy Wilson about writing Happy to Help; using adages, framing your work, seamlessly weaving research into the narrative and more.…

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#132 The Blurry Boundary Between Truth and Fiction in Women’s Lives

Estelle Erasmus speaks with author Nicole Graev Lipson about her new book, crafting confusion or questions into a collection of essays, layering in literary themes, capturing sensory details and more.…

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#131 The Flavor of Trauma: A Food Memoir Wrapped Around a Family Story

Estelle Erasmus chats with author, Bonny Reichert about writing complex family stories in memoir, and the challenges she faced and overcame writing her book.…

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#130 Focus on Friendship Featuring Nina Badzin

Estelle Erasmus chats with Nina Badzin about writing and podcasting with a niche in mind, how to pivot, what it means to be an early adopter, and how to maximize Substack when you are covering an in-demand topic.…

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#129 Intentional About Structure: Dual Timelines and POVs As a Bridge Featuring Jessica Strawser

Estelle Erasmus chats with USA Today bestselling author Jessica Strawser about dual timelines and POVS, and structuring a suspense novel that surprises and delights the reader.…

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#128 Crafting Cathartic Personal Essays with Rachel Kramer Bussel of Open Secrets Magazine

Estelle Erasmus chats with Open Secrets Magazine founder/editor Rachel Kramer Busssel about writing tips, what she is looking for for her magazine and more.…

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#127 Finding Scientific Angles on Any Story with The Open Notebook’s Editor Siri Carpenter

Estelle Erasmus chats with the editor-in-chief of The Open Notebook, Siri Carpenter about writing science in an accessible way an…

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#126 Rocking Your Radiance In Work and Play Featuring Becca Powers

Estelle Erasmus speaks with Becca Powers, a life coach and author of A Return to Radiance about burn-out, and being the star of your own life.…

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#125 Parlaying Writing Into an Act of Reclamation Featuring Alyson Shelton

Estelle Erasmus chats with Alyson Shelton about the magical impact of the Where I’m From Poem, how inserting childhood memories into writing can help heal trauma, notes on estrangement and more.…

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#124 Essays on Loneliness: Tethering An Isolated Writer To A Disconnected World 

Estelle Erasmus chats with Athena Dixon about crafting her memoir-in-essays, selecting throughlines, using various vessels to convey a message, deciding your memoir’s format and more.…

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#123 Writing About Trauma Using Timelines, Throughlines, and Imagery with Christie Tate

Estelle Erasmus chats with Christie Tate about how she wrote Group, and used her therapy process to help structure her memoir…

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#122 Crafting A Tsunami of Transformation in Memoir with Hannah Sward

Estelle Erasmus chats with memoirist and author of Strip, Hannah Sward on excavating childhood memories, distilling scene and setting from her father’s poems, and writing her story of finding herself, and reclaiming her voice through writing.…

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