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 | 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...
by Lily Dunn | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog
I run a course – an intimate course, I should add, as intimacy is the subject of this blog post – on how we might monetise the long and tedious and emotionally draining process of writing a long form memoir by thinking about publishing some of our chapters as essays....
by Lily Dunn | Jan 24, 2022 | Blog
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. The thing about being published in March, is that a lot of the build up happens say six months before publication – you have the publicity meeting; you write some pitches; the proof copies go out – and because this...
