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Tuesday, October 20
 

7:00pm PDT

Memoirs: Writing Against Silence or Erasure
Tuesday October 20, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
FREE, $10–$15 suggested donation

Co-presented with Memoir Nation

These four memoirists are, in different ways, writing into spaces where their experience has been minimized, misread, or actively suppressed. Judy Juanita's California Fever Dream spans sixty years of writing focused on Black activism and feminism. In I Love You So Many, journalist Terria Smith shares lessons learned from a career sharing stories about the richness of Native people’s lives. Elena Dudum's They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful is a call to action against institutional silencing and censorship. Finally, Caroline Paul has spent her career writing women into adventure narratives that historically excluded them, most recently in Why Fly. Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, co-founders of the Memoir Nation podcast and online community, will guide a compelling discussion on the power of this truth-telling form. Doors at 6:30pm.

Moderators
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Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of Memoir Nation (and also the co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast), the co-founder of the Flash Fiction Institute, the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author. He has published All the Comfort Si... Read More →
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Brooke Warner

Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press, an imprint of The Stable Book Group. She is a memoir coach and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What's Your Book?, and three books on memoir. She’s also a TEDx speaker (“Green-light Revolution”), weekly podcaster (of “Memoir Nation” with co-host Grant Faulkner), and publishes a weekly newsletter, Writerly Things, on Substack at brookewarner.substack.com... Read More →
Speakers
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Elena Dudum

Elena Dudum is a Palestinian-American writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, Cosmopolitan, and Bon Appétit, among others. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2025 for They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful, as well as the 2024 LANDO Grant from The de Groot Foundation. Born in San Francisco, she now lives between New York and London... Read More →
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Judy Juanita

Judy Juanita's latest books are a memoir, California Fever Dream (Willow) and a pro-choice look at abortion, Abortion (or Woman as Threefold Murderess). Her poetry collection Gawdzilla (EquiDistance, 2022) conflates the destructive, prehistoric sea monster Godzilla with U.S. impe... Read More →
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Caroline Paul

Caroline Paul is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including THE GUTSY GIRL, which teaches bravery and confidence in middle grade girls, and TOUGH BROAD, From BASE jumping to Birdwatching, How Outdoor Adventure Improves our Lives as We Age. Her most recent book is WHY FLY, Seeking Awe, Healing... Read More →
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Terria Smith

Terria Smith is a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and a proud original Californian. She is the editor of News from Native California magazine and director of the Berkeley Roundhouse, Heyday’s California Indian publishing program. Smith is also the e... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Mrs. Dalloway's 2904 College Ave, Berkeley CA 94705
 

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