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 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 | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
My debut nonfiction book, Sins of My Father: A Daughter, A Cult, A Wild Unravelling was published a few weeks ago (17th March) and I’ve been taking it easy for a week or so, just to give myself a bit of space and to rest a little. One thing that I’ve been asked...
by Lily Dunn | Feb 19, 2022 | Blog
In response to a Twitter discussion this morning, I thought I might try to jot down some of my ideas around writing a memoir proposal, partly because I wrote one that caught the attention of a publisher, and partly also because I then taught a course on it… but...
