Join acclaimed memoirist Lily Dunn to celebrate the publication of her new book Into Being by immersing yourself in an enlightening workshop about writing memoir and discovering your story.

Into being is an essential guide to writing memoir in a radical and empowering way. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing, Lily Dunn presents the ground-breaking idea that the craft of memoir itself can offer a form of transformation.

 

Dunn demystifies the memoirist's art, helping readers to find meaning in raw experience and elevate the personal to the universal. She considers intriguing questions, from why our memories give greater significance to certain events to how we can write honestly without intruding too far into the lives of our loved ones. She also explores how writers are extending the memoir form to create something hybrid, playful and subversive.

 

In an age of social media, filled with confessions, re-inventions and distortions of the self, the question of what it means to be an individual is more urgent than ever. Into being shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world.

 

*This event is a writing workshop which will also include readings, comfort break and Q&A - Lily's new book Into Being is included in your ticket.*

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Praise for Into Being

 

‘Lily Dunn is one of our best teachers and theorists of autobiographical writing and Into being is an inspiring, philosophical and helpful guide. If you are a memoirist feeling discouraged or lost, this book will give you both encouragement and insight into the value of the form, and practical ways forward. I copied many lines into my own journal.‘ - Amy Liptrot, The Outrun

 

‘As astute as it is generous, Lily Dunn’s Into being draws a capacious doorway for all who seek to write from lived experience, illuminating the contours of the endeavour using copious examples and abundant wisdom.’ - Melissa Febos, Girlhood

 

‘Into being could not be more timely. Life writing, memoir and autobiographical storytelling are culturally prevalent and Lily Dunn has provided us with a sensitively written, wise and insightful combination of advice, reflection and theory. An instant classic that I will be using in my teaching and writing life.’ - Suzanne Joinson, The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things.

 

Ticket and Book: £25

Date: Wednesday 22nd October

Time: 6.30pm-8pm