# Melanie Brook

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It Has to Be Read. • A Hard Silence by Melanie Brooks

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with teacher and author Melanie Brooks, exploring her work and the themes of her book, A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all._____LINKSThe Globe and Mail: "Britain’s infected-blood inquiry changes nothing. But it me…

Barreling Towards Dead Man's Curve

Veteran engineer Jake Richardson is at the helm of Train 407, the Colossus Express, a mile-long passenger and freight train barreling through the Rocky Mountain Pass. What begins as a routine trip from Denver to Salt Lake City turns into a nightmare when Jake realizes the brakes have failed, and th…

Join Us on May 13 + Writing and Publishing w/ Melanie Brooks

197 To celebrate Melanie and Nadine's collaborative masterclass, Publishing Your Stories, on May 13, we're bringing back this chat with Melanie Brooks. If you can't make it live, you can still register and catch the replay. --- Many of us have carried at least one hard story for years, suffering un…

What I Carried in Silence with Melanie Brooks

In this episode, Melanie Brooks openly shares the experience of her father dying from AIDS and how, as a family, they didn’t talk about him being sick. It took her 20 years to look at the silence and grief.    Her dad was infected with AIDS from a blood transfusion during surgery. Her dad was a sur…

Encore Episode: Breaking the Silence with Melanie Brooks

Send us Fan Mail In this encore conversation, author and teacher Melanie Brooks and I explore the lifelong impact of silence—within our families, our communities, and our writing lives. Drawing from her memoir, A Hard Silence, Melanie shares how unspoken truths shaped her understanding of grief, id…

How to Write a Memoir When You Don’t Remember Everything (Memory, Trauma & Emotional Truth) with Sue William Silverman

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the memory you need most for your memoir is the one you can’t quite reach? You listen to this week’s guest, Sue William Silverman. Sue is the award-winning author of nine works of nonfiction and poetry and co-chair of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont Colleg…

UNDER WRAPS 2 (& Show Update)

Al & Val reunite with new and old mummy pals, including Adam Wylie, who had the distinction of being in the first and last ever DCOM. Listen in the first 10min for an announcement on the show's future (GOOD NEWS!) Under Wraps 2 (September 25, 2022)  IMDB Wikipedia Directed by Alex Zamm (My Date wi…

Boy in Video Arcade

The queens talk about writing through sadness and grief in order to move forward and gain a different vantage point.  Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Pre…

251. Mining Opening Pages for Impact featuring Deborah K. Shepherd

Deborah Shepherd joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the large age gap in her first marriage and having mixed feelings about the love story of her youth, the titillation of secrecy and huge risks she took in her personal life, how women were seen, feeling protective of our younger selv…