#memoir Archives - Estelle Erasmus

#138 Making Memoir Peculiar — and Propulsive Featuring Dinty W. Moore

Estelle Erasmus chats with celebrated writer, author, and teacher Dinty W. Moore about why the peculiar often makes the most powerful material when it comes to memoir.…

#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.…

Author of Exit Interview, Kristi Coulter

#113 Writing With Ambition Featuring Kristi Coulter

Estelle Erasmus speaks with author, Kristi Coulter on writing memoir, choosing a tense, what to leave out (and in), how to imbue humor into your work, the difference between scene and summary and more.…

#102 Writing Scenes Shaped Around Sensory Experience Featuring Rona Maynard

Estelle Erasmus speaks with Rona Maynard about finding the conflict in your story, what having a dog taught her, and working as a magazine editor-in-chief.…

#92 Writing A Memoir in Feelings, Flashes and Fragments Featuring Lara Lillibridge

Estelle Erasmus chats with Lara Lillibridge, author of The Truth about Unringing Phones about writing a memoir in essays in fragments.…

Don’t Miss This Day of Learning All About Memoir From The Host of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

I was so delighted when I was a guest on the amazing podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, and host and my friend Bianca Marais interviewed me about my book Writing That Gets Noticed (order here) and I was able to share so many great tips like the ones below (in the photos).…