by Lily Dunn | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog
In this series of interviews, I will be talking to memoirists, both published and working towards publication, about their writing process, and how writing memoir has helped them better understand themselves and their place in the world. I am also interested in how a...
by Lily Dunn | Nov 20, 2022 | Blog
Forgive me if I have written about this before, but it deserves repeating. This past week in my Self-Adaptation course we looked at memoir as political, and read Melissa Febos’s inspirational article about Writing about Trauma as a Subversive Act. which...
by Lily Dunn | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
Lily: Shall we start by hearing about The Last Days, your memoir published recently by Ebury, and your motivation in writing it? Ali: The Last Days is about growing up a Jehovah Witness in a closed rural community in the Scottish borders in the 1980s, and it follows...