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 18, 2022 | Blog
Leslie Jamison, a writer I admire – author of the Empathy Exams and The Recovering, along with some very fine long form essays – recently posted on Twitter her teaching summary for the upcoming semester, a module on ‘The Self’. It was retweeted...
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...
