Ep. 166 Davin Malasarn

About this episode

Davin Malasarn discusses his writing journey and debut novel on the QWERTY podcast.

Davin Malasarn is a writer an author whose work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Rosebud, Opium Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly and other journals in print and online. His debut novel, The Outer Country , is just out from One World/Random House. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life. Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter list and keep up to date on all our free webinars, instructive posts and online classes in how to write memoir , as well as our talented, available memoir editors and memoir coaches, podcast guests and more.

People in this episode

Host: Marion Roach Smith

Guest: Davin Malasarn

Topics covered

• writing
• memoir
• literature
• publishing
• author interviews

Keywords

• Davin Malasarn
• The Outer Country
• memoir writing
• author interview
• literary journals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Los Angeles Review, Rosebud, Opium Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, One World/Random House

Products: The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

Books & works: The Outer Country

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