by Lily Dunn | Apr 10, 2023 | Blog
This is an updated version of a blog post I published on the London Lit Lab website a year ago. Memoir is a bit of an anomaly in the publishing world, because it is categorised as nonfiction, but many memoirs are written like novels, concerned with character,...
by Lily Dunn | Mar 2, 2023 | Blog
I have learned a lot about memoir this week, from various conversations had, and books read, and certain angles not before thought about. This is no surprise as I seem to be immersed in the world of personal narrative these days: through teaching, mentoring, and now...
by Lily Dunn | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
I am writing this from that place of excitement. Do you know the one? When you suddenly feel as if you have made a breakthrough after what feels like months, even years – thousands of years! – in the dark. I’ve been writing a journal these past months, page...
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 | Nov 3, 2022 | Blog
I’ve been teaching one of my favourite courses these past weeks – Self-Adaptation, Making the Personal Publishable – which is basically a small reading group (max 10 on Zoom), concerned with set texts of personal essays, which turns into a writing...
