Write-minded is now Memoir Nation
Since 2018, Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner have been cohosting Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers. Write-minded has a writing and community focus, and almost always an interview with an author or industry professional. Guests on the show include such literary luminaries as Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kiese Laymon, Edwidge Danticat, R.O. Kwon, Deesha Philyaw, Xochitl Gonzalez, Dani Shapiro, Tayari Jones, Rachel Cusk, Nicole Chung, Anne Patchett, Maggie Smith, Jacqueline Woodson, Mary Karr, A.M. Homes, Elizabeth Acevedo, Gish Jen, Pico Iyer, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Elizabeth Gilbert, and many others.
In 2025, Brooke and Grant rebranded Write-minded to become Memoir Nation. Memoir Nation will continue in the same vein as Write-minded, just with a refined focus on personal story and memoir. Memoir Nation podcast is also an extension of the Memoir Nation community, and we invite you to come visit and to become a member!
On this site, we’ve archived all our previous shows. Anything on the episode tab is a past Write-minded episode. All new episodes will live on Memoir Nation’s various feeds.
Listen to Memoir Nation wherever you listen to your podcasts:
Meet Our Hosts
Grant Faulkner
Brooke Warner
Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. Brooke teaches memoir intensives online and in person. She is a TEDx speaker, weekly podcaster (of “Write-minded” with co-host Grant Faulkner), and publishes a weekly newsletter, Writerly Things, on Substack. Brooke is the former Executive Editor of Seal Press and writes a regular column for Publishers Weekly.
Grant Faulkner is the former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has published three books on writing, The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo; and Brave the Page, a teen writing guide. He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories; and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and Best Small Fictions. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. Find Grant online on Facebook, X, Instagram, and Substack.
If you want to be a guest on Memoir Nation, contact us here.