Unhinged but accurate

I Write Out Loud with Dana DuBois & Margaret Williams

Dana gets into essay writing as a defiant act, dating men who would rather open her essays than open their hearts, and so much more.

By Dana DuBois and Margaret Williams, MS, ACCFebruary 5, 2026 · 1 min read

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Thank you Brandon Ellrich, Stuart Cohen, Lynette, Mason/She/Her🩷💜💙, Sue Henger, and many others for tuning into this super fun conversation with Margaret Williams, MS, ACC about my new memoir writing project, I Write Out Loud.

Here are some of the essays we discussed.

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Dana DuBois

The memoirist

Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy. All stories by Dana