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Memoir Nation

Brooke Warner, Grant Faulkner

Booking Overview

A weekly interview podcast focused on memoir, personal writing, writing craft, and publishing, with recurring external conversations featuring established authors, journalists, creatives, and memoirists. Strong pitch candidates include authors with new memoirs, award-winning writers, writing educators, and publishing professionals with distinctive expertise or personal stories; booking difficulty is high because the show regularly features nationally recognized literary and cultural figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 269

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 263 subscribers

Instagram: 1.1k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

brooke@warnercoaching.com

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Host

Brooke Warner - Publisher, author, writing coach, and co-founder and publisher of She Writes Press, Brooke Warner specializes in supporting authors and helping writers develop and publish their work.

Grant Faulkner - Author and writing advocate, Grant Faulkner is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month and a co-founder of the literary organization 100 Word Story.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Published memoirists, bestselling or award-winning authors, prominent journalists, literary artists, writing educators, and public figures with a substantial personal story or expertise in memoir and personal writing.
Required Achievements:  
National or New York Times bestselling books, Major literary awards and nominations, Pulitzer, Emmy, or Newbery recognition, Bylines in prominent national publications, Established careers in writing, journalism, performance, or publishing

Recent Guest Discussions

Myriam Gurba - Speaking Truth To Power, Critical Writing, Honesty, And The Creative Freedom Of Refusing To Be Nice.

Roxane Gay - Bravery On The Page, Truth-telling, Criticism, And Refusing To Make Writing Acceptable To Everyone.

Beth Macy - Memoir, Poverty, Social Mobility, And Using Narrative Nonfiction To Prompt Difficult Conversations.

Jose Antonio Vargas - Memoir As A Vehicle For Cultural Change, Immigration, Belonging, And Social-cultural Issues.

E. Jean Carroll - Resilience, Truth-telling, Persistence, And Personal Writing Shaped By High-profile Legal Battles.

Recent Topics

Memoir, Creative Writing, Publishing, Authors, Writing Craft

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Memoir Nation
:

Captain Nia Gilliam on Monoculture Moments in Memoir

September 07, 2026

We’re taking the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 to explore monoculture moments in memoir. These are collective events that we’ve all gone through together, where you know exactly where you were when an event happened. Captain Nia Gilliam had one of the most rarified views of 9/11 imaginable, from the cockpit of the last plane cleared for takeoff at Newark Airport on 9/11. Her story is about that day, what she saw and how it threatened to ground her forever, after a lifelong ...

Reyna Grande on Finding Beauty in Your Prison

August 31, 2026

We are back from our summer break with the first guest of our ninth season, Reyna Grande, in conversation about her new book, Migrant Heart. In this book, Reyna examines the ways in which she’s gravitated toward the memories that most hurt. There’s a real tension between excavating sadness and joy in our work, and discovering how both might show up on the page. Reyna’s honest look at questions of fixation, wrapping identity around trauma, and poking at the wound is an invitation to any writer...

Andre Dubus III and Marya Hornbacher on The Cost of Telling the Truth

August 24, 2026

This is the last of our summer Best-Of episodes, this one featuring clips from our interviews with Andre Dubus III and Marya Hornbacher. Yes, these two authors are legacy memoirists, both of whom have written New York Times bestsellers. But also, both know something of the cost of telling the truth. Andre speaks to the cost to his relationships, while Marya speaks to the cost to her reputation. Both know what it is to be scrutinized, but also to stand proud in their raw and honest truths. The...

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