Creative Conversations: Lily Dunn

Mon Jan 26 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm UTC+00:00

University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel | Glasgow

@UofGWriting
Publisher/Host@UofGWriting
Creative Conversations: Lily Dunn
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Author Lily Dunn reading and in conversation
About this Event

In hernew book, Into being, the acclaimed author of Sins of My Father Lily Dunn shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.


As a memoirist, teacher and mentor, Dunn demystifies the memoirist's art, helping readers to find meaning in raw experience and elevate the personal to the universal. She also explores how writers are extending the memoir form to create something hybrid, playful and subversive.


By interviewing authors of recently published memoirs, including Noreen Masud (A Flat Place), Jenn Ashworth (Notes Made While Falling) and Richard Beard (The Day That Went Missing) as well as referencing a wide range of well-known memoirs and personal essays, from Virginia Woolf and Joan Didion to Marina Benjamin, Into being shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world.


The Zoom Link to attend online is: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/84847985257

Creative Conversations is supported generously by The Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.


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University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, Main Building, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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