Melissa Valentine - Author of the memoir The Names of All the Flowers - a podcast by Sara Gallagher - she/her
from 2020-07-16T00:00
This week our guest is memoirist Melissa Valentine, author of The Names of All the Flowers, which explores growing up mixed race in Oakland, being part of a family fractured by the school to prison pipeline, and losing her brother. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Doing the writing first before anything else
- Writing as a self-help tool
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
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This week’s writing prompt is: Read two pages of any piece of literature and let it inspire you to write.
Explore Womxn Authors
In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Zora Neale Hurston, author of Dust Tracks on a Road
- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
- Robin Coste Lewis, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus
- Clarice Lispector, author of The Passion According to G.H.
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