by Lily Dunn | Sep 15, 2022 | Blog
Why do we writers find ways to obstruct the very thing we want to do – which is write? I’ve been deliberating over this question a lot recently, and I am using this blog space as a way of trying to work it out on the page – which is often the way I...
by Lily Dunn | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog
I have been grappling with an idea for a new book these past months. I thought I’d hit on something, but then realised it didn’t have enough story. I grasped at something else, and then wondered at its situation. (At times I woke in the night sure I had...
by Lily Dunn | Jun 8, 2022 | Blog
It is very strange to read a book that speaks so closely to your own experience. Xanthi Barker wrote a memoir about her enduring love for her poet father, Will This House Last Forever? I saw the review in the Guardian a year or so ago when it was first published and...
by Lily Dunn | May 12, 2022 | Blog
I am currently teaching a course called Self Adaptation: Making the Personal Publishable, and I do love this course. It’s a design that Zoe Gilbert masterminded which involves close reading of specific texts in the first five weeks, and then turns into a writing...
by Lily Dunn | May 1, 2022 | Blog
I was very lucky to have a chat with Julia Bell, who runs the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, about the important relationship of mentor with memoirist. Julia was also my supervisor on my PhD, and just as I submit my final thesis, we reflect...
