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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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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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Write a Memoir in Five Months: UTM
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The Wonder of the Hand-Written Journal - has it become fetishised in the age of AI?
After I posted a photograph of organising my journals on Instagram and it went viral, I ask what's the big excitement?
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Do you want to join me by writing a memoir in 5 months? Here is the UTM template for any of you who are tempted... plus 1973
Many of you have expressed an interest in my process of writing a UTM memoir (details below). This is how I got there, from reading my journal, to…
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The second year of my memoir is 1999. I was 26. Here is how I came to write it this week.
Many of you have expressed an interest in my process of writing a UTM memoir (details below). This is how I got there, from reading my journal, to…
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The first year of my memoir is 1991. I was 18. Here is how I came to write it yesterday
Many of you have expressed an interest in my process of writing a UTM memoir (details below). This is how I got there, from reading my journal, to…
Jan 25
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Are you ready to write a memoir in FIVE MONTHS? - then come and join me as I do it, and let us support each other.
It starts with your journals, and ends with a memoir following 64 years, and a collaborative writing project. Come join me in this challenge, or maybe…
Jan 23
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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!
Jan 13
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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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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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Dr Lily Dunn
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Anna Wharton
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Craft Essay: Metaphor as Protector
Following a recent masterclass I ran with London Lit Lab, here are my notes on how those of us who write memoir and personal narrative might protect…
Dec 6, 2025
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London Lit Lab
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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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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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Memoir WIP Surgery: 19th Feb, 6pm GMT
Are you writing memoir? Would you like to join a thriving memoir writing community for support and to ask key questions as you move through this often…
Feb 11
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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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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
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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
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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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