Podcast appearances and mentions of sonya huber

From Amy: I met Sonya at a Minneapolis bookstore, where she was reading from her latest collection of essays. Her writing voice is engaging. But it's the multiplicity of roles she occupies as a writer that fascinates me: from established professor of creative writing and published author, to her embrace of various voices still waiting to be released. For the people in my audience who long to write but feel constricted by "what's permitted," this conversation just may feel freeing.We end with three promising writing prompts to try for yourself.Sonya Huber is the author of eight books, including the new essay collection, Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook as well as the writing guide, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, and an award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include the Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.www.sonyahuber.comhttps://www.instagram.com/sonyahuber/The What Happened ProjectThe Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As A Writer: Show, Don't Tell  Amy Hallberg is the author of Tiny Altars: A Midlife Revival and German Awakening: Tales from an American Life. She is the host of Courageous Wordsmith Podcast and founder of Courageous Wordsmith Circle for Real-Life Writers. As an editor and creative mentor, Amy guides writers through their narrative journeys—from inklings to beautiful works, specifically podcasts and books. A lifelong Minnesotan and mother of grown twins, Amy lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two cats. Learn about Courageous Wordsmith Circle for Real-Life WritersWork with Amy 1:1

I'm Annette Leonard of https://www.annetteleonard.com find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theannetteleonard Every other week (or so) I host an episode of Chronic Wellness Conversations on IG Live where I interview an author, thought leader or sick people. You can find these interviews on my reels here https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8ctCR_vo_9/ or on Facebook, here https://www.facebook.com/reel/757349676310780 My most recent guest was Sonya Huber. She's a very talented author who wrote this article about sex and chronic pain https://www.oprah.com/health_wellness/sex-life-with-chronic-pain_1 We had a really engaging conversation on the topic. One of her books is called "Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays From a Nervous System." I have her permission to read an excerpt from an essay from that book called "What Pain Wants." The whole book is filled with Sonya's memoir in essay form. If you're longing to see your pain journey represented on the page, this has my highest recommendation. Especially because the book is essays, it's manageable to read in short bursts. Be sure to tune in to my Chronic Wellness Conversations where you can see interviews with authors like Sonya and others. You can find Sonya and her work at https://www.sonyahuber.com/ **I have a new mini-course I'm finishing about how to unlock the power of your next doctor appointment*** the first 50 people get FREE enrollment. Sign up here https://www.annetteleonard.com/waitlist This is the Chronic Wellness Podcast. I'm Annette Leonard, speaker, coach, and sick person who believes that my illnesses do not define me. If health is the absence of disease and wellness is the presence of wholeness, then no matter what your disease status, we can work toward your wellness, your wholeness. Whether or not you are ever "healthy" on paper, you can be well. Join me and others on the path back to wholeness at AnnetteLeonard.com. Whether you are a person experiencing chronic illness or are someone who loves or serves people with chronic illness I have great resources here on this channel or on my website for you.

Sonya Huber joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about her approach to generating essays, working on many projects at once, writing as exposure therapy, how essays in a collection talk to each other, paying attention to what intrudes on us, living and working in the tangents, an accumulation of questions around a central theme, protecting people, crossing cultures and crossing classes, confronting ghosts, men and danger, being in relationship with writing, and her latest book, Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook   Also in this episode: -writing backward -questions of class -narrative arc   Listen to Sonya Huber's first Let's Talk Memoir episode, #16: https://ronitplank.com/2022/11/15/lets-talk-memoir-season-2-episode-1-ft-sonya-huber/   Books mentioned in this episode: Bird by Bird Anne Lamott Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller Nola Face by Brooke Champagne   Sonya Huber is the author of eight books, including the new essay collection, Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook as well as the writing guide, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, and an award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include the Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program. Connect with Sonya: Website: www.sonyahuber.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonyahuber/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sonya.huber Substack: https://sonyahuber.substack.com/ Books available here: https://bookshop.org/lists/sonya-huber-s-books   — Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches memoir workshops and is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com   Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Newsletter sign-up: https://ronitplank.com/#signup   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

We are playing summer reading bingo these next few months, with 24 squares representing categories of books you can read. And you are invited. Grab your card to play along with us, then choose a row, column, or diagonal line, or complete the card.Why are we, a writing community and I, an instructor of writing courses, doing this book bingo? I answer this question in the episode. Listen as I dig into some of our summer book categories, why we chose them, and how reading books in these categories will improve your writing.More episodes to check out if you are looking for a craft book in a genre new to you:Episode 68: Writerly Love Community members Jennifer Robinson and Candace Webb joined me to talk about quite the throw-back book, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux. At the time, Jen and Candace were fairly new to poetry and found that this book helped them journey into a new genre. So, listen here if you've been writing short stories and want to try verse.Episode 72: Another community book club chat on Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto by Sonya Huber. Listen to our book club conversation with Writerly Love Members Louise Julig, Lina Lau, and Wendy Atwell if you need help to shake up conventional wisdom on writing craft.Episode 88: I know I'm not alone in reading and writing for connection. Kae Tempest's On Connection helped me understand how immersing ourselves in creativity can help us cultivate greater self-awareness and bring us closer to each other. Hear me talk about the book with Yolande House.Episode 78: Author Kavita Das joined us to talk about her amazing book Craft and Conscience, an intentional journey to unpack our motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that “writing, irrespective of genre or outlet, is an act of political writing.” Dig into this vital topic for writers and a great book to read, whether you're crossing off a bingo square or not. Listen to our conversation with Kavita Das.All of the notes for this episode are up at rachelthompson.co/98—Get my Writerly Love Digest, sent most weeks and filled with ideas and care for you and your writing: rachelthompson.co/letters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this final part of my interview with Sonya Huber, professor at Fairfield University and author of Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, we peek at what's coming around the bend for her and I get her answers to my fast five questions. We talked about: Her beautiful vision of the future include a possible memoir of living with anxiety and… goat writing retreats! Sonya's four aunts who were nuns and role models for living a joyous, industrious life The classic short stories Sonya reads and re-reads for inspiration The insanely awesome sounding “coffee smoothie” she makes each morning For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Sonya Huber, inner stuff]: How your personal writing can deepen your relationships + how not to hate writing In this episode I'm talking with Sonya Huber, author of eight books including Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto and professor in the low-residency MFA at Fairfield University about the mindset piece of writing–the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work, even if you're not fully conscious of it, including: Ways to handle the anxiety that comes when in the months before your book is published How to deal with the fear that you're personal writing will hurt someone in your life, or get it ‘wrong' How writing about your own life can deepen relationships with people close to you “Sometimes books really matter to people in ways you don't even imagine they will” How getting long Covid inspired Sonya to write three books in three years For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I am interviewing Sonia Huber, a prolific and award winning writer in many genres, but primarily in creative nonfiction. Her book of essays on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System was named a best book of 2018 by The New Statesman. Her other books include Love and Industry (2023), Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto (2022) and Supremely Tiny Acts (2021). Her essays have been included in the Best American Essays series numerous times. And she is a professor in the department of English at Fairfield university and in the Fairfield low residency MFA program. Despite all these places where Sonya's work has appeared, I found her on Substack, where she publishes a newsletter called Nuts and Bolts with Sonya. We covered: Why and how Sonya works on multiple books at one time (“maybe because I'm super distractible”) Not being afraid to follow a tangent Having zero expectations for your writing output, and just having fun exploring the things you're curious about or mulling over How much “tiny steps add up to bigger works” How farm-sitting goats pays as much or better than writing The book about writing that was written in 1938 that played a huge role in Sonya's approach to writing Sitting down for one hour in the mornings even if you're bored or uninspired to “unsnarl one tiny knot I've made for myself” Strategies for keeping your various ideas accessible, if not exactly organized Using writing as a tool for dealing with chronic pain For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode it is our Book Club Conversation and we talk about Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto by Sonya Huber, sharing who we think the book is for, how it helped with our writing, and what it adds to our ongoing conversation about craft. Find episode show notes at https://rachelthompson.co/podcast/72

In this episode it is our Book Club Conversation and we talk about Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto by Sonya Huber, sharing who we think the book is for, how it helped with our writing, and what it adds to our ongoing conversation about craft. Find episode show notes at https://rachelthompson.co/podcast/72

Reflections on cool loneliness: When I'm not writing enough, I lose track of what I believe, who I am, and who I truly want to be. Also, Book Club Conversation is coming up. Also, Book Club Conversation is coming up. Be sure to check out Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto by Sonya Huber and then listen to our next episode for the low-down on the book. Sign up for my Writerly Love Letters on https://rachelthompson.co/letters. Get show notes, transcripts, and more details on this minisode at rachelthompson.co/podcast/cool

Sonya Huber is the author of seven books, including the new guide, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, and the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program. Michelle Caruso Walker has been working in education for the last 20 years. She's taught middle school and high school in both CT and NY. Michelle has a PhD from Fordham University and currently works in Westport Public Schools as the middle school instructional coach. She's also the mom to three boys!

According to the CDC, 6 in 10 adults have a chronic disease. This hour on Disrupted, we are exploring the sometimes invisible suffering of those with long-term health conditions. Professor and writer Sonya Huber talks about her book Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System, an experimental collection that details her experience with rheumatoid arthritis as she navigates a healthcare system that often dismisses her pain. We also hear from New York Times health and science writer Pam Belluck who updates us on the latest research into long COVID. GUESTS: Sonya Huber: Professor of Creative Writing at Fairfield University, author of 7 books including Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System Pam Belluck: health and science writer for the New York Times, one of this year's winners of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, previously shared in winning a Pulitzer Prize See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sonya Huber joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about structure and time in memoir, the challenge of getting to the core of who we are and facing ourselves on the page, how her perspective on “voice” has changed over time and why that drove her to write her new book Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto.   Also in this episode: -the power of shame to silence us -how “authentic” voice might not mean what we think -a writing exercise to help jumpstart your work   Books mentioned in this episode: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Mezzanine by Nicholas Baker Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Jjames Agee Writers: Andrew Monson and Peter Elbow   Sonya Huber is the author of seven books, including the new guide, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, and the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program. Connect with Sonya: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sonyahuber Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sonya.huber/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonyahuber/ Website: www.sonyahuber.com Sonya's books: https://bookshop.org/lists/sonya-huber-s-books -- Ronit is a teacher and speaker whose essays, creative nonfiction, and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2023. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/ Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Sonya Huber is the author of seven books, including the new guide, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, and the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.Michelle Caruso Walker has been working in education for the last 20 years. She's taught middle school and high school in both CT and NY. Michelle has a PhD from Fordham University and currently works in Westport Public Schools as the middle school instructional coach. She's also the mom to three boys!

Memoirist Sonya Huber discusses how to write the way that we think, including the semiotic leapfrogs of memory, and trying to depict the precarious balance of reality.

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Sonya Huber is the author of six books, including the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System and the forthcoming Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day. Her other books include Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cbaw/support

"I think that's why people stop writing. It's the not knowing what you're doing that feels so terrible." —Sonya Huber (@sonyahuber). Sonya Huber, author of five books and countless essays, joins me on the pod. Shoutout to our patrons in Goucher College's MFA in Nonfiction and Bay Path University's MFA in Creative Nonfiction. Keep the conversation going on Twitter @CNFPod or on Instagram @cnfpod. 

It's a new year! The podcast is not really going to change very much as far as I can tell in 2018, but I hope you keep coming along for the ride! We have some literary articles today along with some discussion on the value of work, troubling trends in education and the impact of gratitude. Enjoy! 1. Sherlock Homeless by Joseph Pierce from The Imaginative Conservative 2. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Missionary's Ideal Companion by Jaclyn S. Parrish from the International Mission Board 3. The Dystopian Prospects of a World without Work by Joseph Sunde from the Acton Institute Powerblog 4. Whose School Is It? by Tom Jay from Crisis Magazine 5. Does "Counting Your Blessings" Work? by Sonya Huber from The Atlantic All music from audionautix.com.

Happy New Year! To kick off 2018, we want to send a clear message that the patient voice is the most important voice. In order to do that, Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore are doing a compilation of some of the most powerful and hard-hitting messages from the patients that we interviewed on Pain Reframed in 2017. We will share clips from Laura Pritchett in episode 3, The Real Brian in episode 8, April Brown in episode 16, Sonya Huber in episode 18, and Dr. Andrew Rothschild in episode 33. Don’t forget to save the date: June 8-10, 2018 in Denver, Colorado, the Align Conference will be taking place, focusing on neuropathic (nerve) pain.  All of the various concepts of calming the nerves down will be covered at this conference. LINKS: http://ispinstitute.com http://www.alignconference.com/ http://evidenceinmotion.com @eimteam

Welcome back to Pain Reframed!  Today, we have our third Reframed Recap, live from O’Dell’s Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado!  Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore look back at previous episodes and interviews to dig deeper and add more commentary and insights learned from these interviews and discussions! This week, we’ll be looking back at the conversations and powerful content shared in the episodes and interviews with April Brown, Dr. Adam Ryan, and Sonya Huber. LINKS: http://ispinstitute.com http://evidenceinmotion.com @eimteam

This week, on Pain Reframed, Sonya Huber joins Dr. Jeff Moore and Dr. Tim Flynn to share her story and perspective of chronic pain and how it’s affected her life. She writes about chronic pain, as well as many other topics, on her blog and in her books. Sonya is the author of five books, including three books of creative nonfiction: Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and Pain Woman Takes Your Keys: Essays from a Nervous System (forthcoming in 2017). Her other books include a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration and The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton. LINKS: http://sonyahuber.com @sonyahuber Facebook: /sonyahuber http://ispinstitute.com http://evidenceinmotion.com @eimteam

An introduction to essayist Sonya Huber, and a reading from her collection PAIN WOMAN TAKES YOUR KEYS AND OTHER ESSAYS FROM A NERVOUS SYSTEM

Sonya Huber is an associate professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of five books, including “The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton,” which she wrote for the British publisher Squint Books. Huber is a reporter, memoirist and essayist who also frequently writes about social issues. Her memoir “Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir” delves into the many issues she has experienced in life with health care and insurance. Her book “Opa Nobody” is a family memoir, as she seeks to understand her grandfather, who was a coal miner, union organizer and social activist in Nazi Germany. Her new book “Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System” will be published by the University of Nebraska in 2017. Huber has also been published in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Fourth Genre, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Washington Post Magazine. She also teaches in the low-res MFA program at Fairfield University.