by Lily Dunn | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog
Last week I finally did my Viva, an oral examination after submission of my doctorate, and it went well. Much like the doctorate felt like it went on infinitum, the Viva loomed large in my consciousness as this unknown frightening thing. Was I going to be challenged,...
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...
by Lily Dunn | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog
Years ago, when my children were small I read A Life’s Work: On Becoming A Mother, by Rachel Cusk. A kind of anti-parenting manual. I, like many, found it a difficult read. It wasn’t so much her brutal honesty about the loss of identity at first becoming a...
by Lily Dunn | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog
What is our motivation to write? I’ve been reflecting on this recently because my life, since having my book published last March, has been a little disrupted – with a daughter who has post viral fatigue and recently the addition of a...
