Moments of Insight: An Introduction to Memoir with Lily Dunn
What does memoir really ask of us? How can writing our lives become a source of clarity, confidence and power rather than exposure or fear?
Join award-winning memoirist and teacher, Lily Dunn, for an intimate, in-person introduction to writing memoir.
Drawing on the structure and ideas from her acclaimed book, Into Being, this small group session will explore what memoir is (and what it isn’t), as well as ideas around voice, perspective, form and permission. We’ll examine how personal experience becomes meaningful story and why writing the self can be a radical and empowering act.
Together, we’ll look at how memoir can elevate the personal into something universal, how to write honestly and how the act of shaping experience on the page can lead to real transformation.
This workshop is designed as a relaxed, thoughtful introduction, with space for discussion, reflection and gentle writing prompts. It may form the introduction to a longer six month memoir course, following the Into Being framework.
This is an exciting opportunity to be taught in-person by one of the UKs leading teachers of
memoir, in the cosy surroundings of The Square Club in Bristol.
Places are limited to keep the group small and focused. Whether you’re curious about memoir, beginning a project, or returning to writing after a gap, this is an invitation to step into your voice.
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About Lily Dunn
Lily Dunn is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, an editor and a lecturer at Bath Spa University. Her memoir, Sins of my Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling was one of The Guardian and The Spectator best nonfiction books of the year, 2022. Her latest book, Into Being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform is an essential guide to writing memoir as a radical and empowering practice. Lily co-founded the London Lit Lab, where she teaches creative writing. Her specialisms include memoir, personal essays and narrative nonfiction.
You can read more about Lily here. Or listen to our conversation on the How You Find Your Voice podcast here.
“Lily Dunn is one of our best teachers and theorists of autobiographical writing’
Amy Liptrot, The Outrun
Praise for Into Being
‘Do not even attempt to write memoir without reading this first.’
Anna Wharton, co-author of Somebody I Used to Know
“A revelatory and vibrant exploration of the transformative power of memoir”
Jenn Ashworth, author of Notes Made While Falling
“The essential guide to all things memoir”
Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing