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We did it! A Wild & Precious Life will now go into production with Unbound
In February Aeon published my essay, The Joy of Intimacy, which looks at love and intimacy in the age of polyamory. It had an amazing response on Twitter and became one of Aeon’s most popular articles of the month with 45,000 plus views. You can also listen to an audio recording of the article on…
We heard this past week that the Arts Council has awarded us a grant for not only the artistic costs of publishing our recovery anthology, A Wild and Precious Life, but also for A Wild and Precious Mentoring Programme (WPMP), which will enable four of our writers to develop their careers. This is such good…
Last Monday Zoe and I hosted our first event for A Wild and Precious Life, our ACE-funded anthology of recovery stories, which sprung from our teaching creative writing to a group of people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction at Hackney Recovery Service (affiliated with St Mungo’s). The event took place at http://www.housmans.com/, a radical…
This is a small piece of creative nonfiction I wrote about taking drugs and going to World Dance in the 1990s. It’s part of a bigger piece that looks at addiction in all its forms and its legacy. You can read it here: https://therealstory.org/2018/07/27/new-years-eve-by-lily-dunn/ The Real Story is a small Arts Council online journal, celebrating creative…
