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Welcome memoir lovers
If you like to read and write memoir you are in the right place... Come and join my community and learn a little more about what's on offer. Hope to…
Nov 13, 2024
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Why My Love Affair with Alcohol Ends Here
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The Salt Path Saga Continues: What good does it do for memoir?
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Memoir Craft Essay: To Show and To Tell
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The Salt Path Scandal: Have the apparent lies discredited memoir as a genre?
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Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir
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Memoir WIP Surgery: Tonight, 6pm: how to test the response to your memoir by writing and submitting essays
Come and join us tonight for the first Memoir WIP Surgery of the year!
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Memoir WIP Surgery: Tuesday 13th, 6pm: how to monetise your memoir by writing and submitting essays
More details of my next Memoir WIP Surgery, and also an introduction to a new writing project and some intimate questions about choice, sacrifice and…
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Memoir WIP Surgery Christmas Special Recording: Lily and Anna talking Memoir
Anna has almost finished writing a first draft of her commissioned memoir and here we had a discussion about process. If you're writing a memoir don't…
Dec 20, 2025
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Dr Lily Dunn
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The Salt Path Saga Continues: What good does it do for memoir?
The Salt Path Scandal has raised its head again in another Observer article published this morning, and after Raynor Winn's alleged confession we can…
Dec 14, 2025
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Memoir WIP Surgery Christmas Special
On Monday I will be a running a very special Memoir WIP Surgery reflecting on a year of memoir in discussion with Anna Wharton, a friend who also…
Dec 12, 2025
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Interviews / Memoir
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Memoir WIP Surgery Christmas Special Recording: Lily and Anna talking Memoir
Anna has almost finished writing a first draft of her commissioned memoir and here we had a discussion about process. If you're writing a memoir don't…
Dec 20, 2025
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Anna Wharton
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Interview: Richard Beard on writing The Day that Went Missing
To celebrate the publication of Into Being, about the transformative power of memoir, I am sharing the interviews that I did as part of my research ...
Nov 7, 2025
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Writer's Lives: Clover Stroud
Tackling her fifth memoir, Clover Stroud talks process here in her generous answers to our Writer's Lives questions... Some real sparkling gems...
Aug 12, 2025
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Interview: Marina Benjamin on writing A Little Give
In advance of the publication of Into Being, about the transformative power of memoir, I am sharing the interviews that I did as part of my research …
Aug 6, 2025
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Interview: Julia Bell on writing Hymnal
In advance of the publication of Into Being, about the transformative power of memoir, I am sharing the interviews that I did as part of my research …
Jul 12, 2025
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Interview: Nic Wilson on her JUST PUBLISHED memoir, Land Beneath the Waves
A brand new interview with Nic Wilson who published her debut memoir on the 12th June, 2025.
Jun 22, 2025
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Interview: Damian Barr on writing Maggie & Me
In advance of the publication of Into Being, about the transformative power of memoir, I am sharing the interviews that I did as part of my research …
Jun 15, 2025
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INTERVIEW: Jade Angeles Fitton on writing Hermit
In advance of the publication of Into Being, about the transformative power of memoir, I am sharing the interviews that I did as part of my research …
Jun 4, 2025
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INTERVIEW: Noreen Masud on writing A Flat Place
In advance of the publication of Into Being, about the transformative power of memoir, I am sharing the interviews that I did as part of my research …
May 21, 2025
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INTERVIEW: Julia Bell on Mentoring and Teaching Memoir
Julia Bell runs the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University and was also my supervisor for my PhD. She's been a huge inspiration for me and my…
May 8, 2025
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Crosspost: Interview on the craft of memoir with Nataliya Deleva
Part 2 from a conversation I had with author Nataliya Deleva
Jan 11, 2025
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Crosspost: Interview on the craft of memoir with Nataliya Deleva
Part 1 from a conversation I had with author Nataliya Deleva about writing memoir
Dec 28, 2024
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Memoir WIP Surgery
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Recording for Memoir WIP Surgery: how to monetise your memoir by writing and submitting essays for publication
Thank you to those who joined us, and for those who couldn't here is the recording!
Jan 13
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Memoir WIP Surgery: Tonight, 6pm: how to test the response to your memoir by writing and submitting essays
Come and join us tonight for the first Memoir WIP Surgery of the year!
Jan 13
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Dr Lily Dunn
15
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Memoir WIP Surgery: Tuesday 13th, 6pm: how to monetise your memoir by writing and submitting essays
More details of my next Memoir WIP Surgery, and also an introduction to a new writing project and some intimate questions about choice, sacrifice and…
Jan 9
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Dr Lily Dunn
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The Salt Path Saga Continues: What good does it do for memoir?
The Salt Path Scandal has raised its head again in another Observer article published this morning, and after Raynor Winn's alleged confession we can…
Dec 14, 2025
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Dr Lily Dunn
154
8
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Memoir WIP Surgery Christmas Special
On Monday I will be a running a very special Memoir WIP Surgery reflecting on a year of memoir in discussion with Anna Wharton, a friend who also…
Dec 12, 2025
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Anna Wharton
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Recording: Memoir WIP Surgery Tonight
In case you missed it: we talked about giving yourself permission, and how this might involve taking your vocation seriously as a writer, and being a…
Nov 6, 2025
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