About Memoir Nation
Memoir Nation is a hub and a community for writers, legacy-builders, published authors, and memoir enthusiasts.
Whether you’ve lived twenty years or eighty years, you’ve lived a life rich with stories that are calling out to be told.
So many people say, “I’m going to write my story someday,” but “someday” tends to always be off in the distance. Memoir Nation is here to help you start writing your story today.
Memoir Nation provides the inspiration, guidance, structure, and support to equip you creatively, emotionally, and psychologically to write your life story.
How Does It Work?
Memoir Nation will help you activate your life story through an annual event each year, JanYourStory, designed to help you start, commit, or continue your story. JanYourStory is a challenge to write 500 words per day in one month—to start your memoir and build momentum to finish your story by year’s end.
Memoir Nation provides different levels of membership services, including ongoing classes, events, and a writing community to fuel your creative spirit and guide you on this journey of self-reflection and meaning-making.
If you’re ready to start your memoir, continue your memoir, or get guidance and inspiration for the journey that is writing your memoir, we’ve got all your bases covered.
The Back Story
Memoir Nation’s cofounders, Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner, circled each other’s orbits for years in the Bay Area literary scene before launching their popular podcast, Write-minded, in 2018. With the launch of the Memoir Nation community, they rebranded the podcast to carry the same name.
Grant served as the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for twelve years. During his tenure, he expanded the organization’s reach and influence in the writing community, growing participation to more than 400,000 writers, including nearly 80,000 young writers in NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program. Grant brings his passion for community and his deep belief that our world progresses story-by-story to this endeavor. That passion and belief, burnished by NaNoWriMo, inspires and informs JanYourStory, and we hold NaNoWriMo’s spirit and legacy close.
Brooke is the Publisher of She Writes Press, and former Senior Editor of Seal Press. Brooke has taught memoir in person and online since 2012, often with Linda Joy Myers of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Brooke is a community leader in her own right, providing space and community for her author community at She Writes Press, and also through her various memoir offerings. Brooke has seen through to publication, through her coaching and her publishing endeavors, hundreds of memoirs.
Grant and Brooke’s collaboration is centered in community, a deep belief that our stories change our world for the better, and a desire to support writers to write and finish their memoirs. When you join our community, you’ll benefit from courses rooted in both craft and inspiration; from our podcast and bonus content; from our newsletters (weekly or monthly); and our introductory free download, Crafting Your Memoir, which you access by signing up for our free Path #1.