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We did it! A Wild & Precious Life will now go into production with Unbound
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…
Full of the swaggering adventures of a father, set against the quieter domestic adventure of a single-parent family in Islington in the 1970s. STARMAN is about the many faces of addiction and the erasure of common human connection in its painful intergenerational legacy.
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…
