Lily Dunn
@lilydunn.bsky.social
Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
Into Being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform is published 7th October and can be preordered from all good independent bookshops; a signed and dedicated copy from Gloucester Road Books, a must if you love reading and writing memoir. gloucesterroadbooks.com/product/9781...
August 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Into Being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform is published 7th October and can be preordered from all good independent bookshops; a signed and dedicated copy from Gloucester Road Books, a must if you love reading and writing memoir. gloucesterroadbooks.com/product/9781...
Excited to be doing an event with Joanna Pocock in October to launch Into Being and to celebrate the publication of Greyhound-the kind of memoir I love - straight talking, educational, informed, transformative in surprising ways. We are going to have a lot to talk about. Details of event to follow.
July 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Excited to be doing an event with Joanna Pocock in October to launch Into Being and to celebrate the publication of Greyhound-the kind of memoir I love - straight talking, educational, informed, transformative in surprising ways. We are going to have a lot to talk about. Details of event to follow.
Had a fascinating discussion with Anna Wharton about the Salt Path scandal. You can watch it here open.substack.com/pub/lilydunn...
July 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Had a fascinating discussion with Anna Wharton about the Salt Path scandal. You can watch it here open.substack.com/pub/lilydunn...
Had a fascinating conversation with @nicwilson.bsky.social about her memoir, Land Beneath the Waves. And here is a clip from it.
June 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Had a fascinating conversation with @nicwilson.bsky.social about her memoir, Land Beneath the Waves. And here is a clip from it.
The perfect purchase from my local bookshop @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social on a beautiful summer morning. This is going to be my summer reading. What book have you bought from an independent bookshop this week? #independentbookshopweek
June 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The perfect purchase from my local bookshop @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social on a beautiful summer morning. This is going to be my summer reading. What book have you bought from an independent bookshop this week? #independentbookshopweek
And then the postman came and he rang on the doorbell, and the dog went nuts, and he delivered a parcel, and there were two books inside with my name on them. It’s nice to hold book number 3 in my hands. I feel quite emotional ❤️
May 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
And then the postman came and he rang on the doorbell, and the dog went nuts, and he delivered a parcel, and there were two books inside with my name on them. It’s nice to hold book number 3 in my hands. I feel quite emotional ❤️
Very blessed to have such amazing readers for my forthcoming book on how to write memoir. Thank you so much Amy and Melissa
May 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Very blessed to have such amazing readers for my forthcoming book on how to write memoir. Thank you so much Amy and Melissa
Children of the Cult, the powerful documentary directed by @maroesja.bsky.social and Alice McShane, has been nominated for a BAFTA! So many years to get this film off the ground - the stories of exceptionally brave women and men who grew up in the #osho Rajneesh communes, sexual abuse and neglect
March 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Children of the Cult, the powerful documentary directed by @maroesja.bsky.social and Alice McShane, has been nominated for a BAFTA! So many years to get this film off the ground - the stories of exceptionally brave women and men who grew up in the #osho Rajneesh communes, sexual abuse and neglect
Today I am prepping for a new course I am teaching. It’s intensive, on memoir. I am quoting from this book, as I often do when teaching, and it is falling apart! It’s a first edition, 1976, and my mother gave it to me. It is full of her annotations, so as I read it I read a little bit of her as well
March 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Today I am prepping for a new course I am teaching. It’s intensive, on memoir. I am quoting from this book, as I often do when teaching, and it is falling apart! It’s a first edition, 1976, and my mother gave it to me. It is full of her annotations, so as I read it I read a little bit of her as well
My next book, INTO BEING: will be published by MUP in October and I can now share the cover - it is part memoir, part teaching manual for those of you who love writing. It is one of the only books in the UK to focus on the craft of #memoir. Pre-order manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179258/
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My next book, INTO BEING: will be published by MUP in October and I can now share the cover - it is part memoir, part teaching manual for those of you who love writing. It is one of the only books in the UK to focus on the craft of #memoir. Pre-order manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179258/
I am on the final stretch of writing and editing Into Being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform, and I can’t quite believe it. A book that evolved from a doctorate, and then a Tweet, and ten years of teaching memoir. It will be published in Oct; you can preorder it from March.
February 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I am on the final stretch of writing and editing Into Being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform, and I can’t quite believe it. A book that evolved from a doctorate, and then a Tweet, and ten years of teaching memoir. It will be published in Oct; you can preorder it from March.
It’s good to see my cheeky face centre stage at Charing Cross Waterstones nearly three years after Sins of My Father was first published. So much stock passes through bookshops and I am very grateful this little tyke has stuck around. #amwriting #writingcommunity
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s good to see my cheeky face centre stage at Charing Cross Waterstones nearly three years after Sins of My Father was first published. So much stock passes through bookshops and I am very grateful this little tyke has stuck around. #amwriting #writingcommunity
Apparently my memoir is The Most Gifted Book on Cults and Demonism, on Amazon. I have arrived!!!
January 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Apparently my memoir is The Most Gifted Book on Cults and Demonism, on Amazon. I have arrived!!!
Calling all poets! We are so excited to have the brilliant @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social do a workshop for us on 9th Feb, 2-4pm GMT that combines queer theory with ecopoetry. Listen here to discover more, and you can book here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/poetr... #poetry #creativewriting #amwriting
January 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Calling all poets! We are so excited to have the brilliant @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social do a workshop for us on 9th Feb, 2-4pm GMT that combines queer theory with ecopoetry. Listen here to discover more, and you can book here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/poetr... #poetry #creativewriting #amwriting
Some of the memoirs I read in 2024. All are brilliant but astonishingly different, which is why I love this literary form so much. Memoir by its nature defies categorisation. They are all real life stories but writers have distinctly personal ways of telling them, because no one person is the same.
December 30, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Some of the memoirs I read in 2024. All are brilliant but astonishingly different, which is why I love this literary form so much. Memoir by its nature defies categorisation. They are all real life stories but writers have distinctly personal ways of telling them, because no one person is the same.
The first biography my mum wrote. A fascinating story of the power of true love and of creativity, and of living an unconventional life dedicated to self education. I also learned a lot about my mother. The life of the biographer through their subject. A beautiful book @janedunnauthor.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 1:37 PM
The first biography my mum wrote. A fascinating story of the power of true love and of creativity, and of living an unconventional life dedicated to self education. I also learned a lot about my mother. The life of the biographer through their subject. A beautiful book @janedunnauthor.bsky.social
This is definitely one of the best movies I’ve watched this year. Loved its ease and grittiness and how real it felt. Timothée Chalamet is brilliant in it, and he can sing! #filmrecommendation
December 22, 2024 at 7:52 AM
This is definitely one of the best movies I’ve watched this year. Loved its ease and grittiness and how real it felt. Timothée Chalamet is brilliant in it, and he can sing! #filmrecommendation
Morning walk. This is why I have a dog
December 6, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Morning walk. This is why I have a dog
Loved this #film. So quiet and potent, and so subtle in its exploration of generations of shame and repression, and such
melancholic beauty. It’s about grief, and how the loss of a formative relationship continues to live powerfully in those who are left. Go see it!
melancholic beauty. It’s about grief, and how the loss of a formative relationship continues to live powerfully in those who are left. Go see it!
November 28, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Loved this #film. So quiet and potent, and so subtle in its exploration of generations of shame and repression, and such
melancholic beauty. It’s about grief, and how the loss of a formative relationship continues to live powerfully in those who are left. Go see it!
melancholic beauty. It’s about grief, and how the loss of a formative relationship continues to live powerfully in those who are left. Go see it!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 1
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 1
November 27, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 1
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 1
Sunday negotiation with Elsa
November 24, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Sunday negotiation with Elsa
Loving this book. I was given it by my editor some time ago and have only just got round to reading. It’s inspiring and important for those women, like me, who have made sacrifices for our individual happiness and creativity. Sometimes it’s not selfish but necessary #lifewriting #amwriting
November 23, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Loving this book. I was given it by my editor some time ago and have only just got round to reading. It’s inspiring and important for those women, like me, who have made sacrifices for our individual happiness and creativity. Sometimes it’s not selfish but necessary #lifewriting #amwriting
If you love memoir and reading personal essays, come and join me and others for my first Memoir Club - on Zoom tonight. You need to be subscribed to our @londonlitlab.bsky.social Substack to join. But it will be worth it! We're discussing Natalia Ginzburg's 'He and I'. #memoir #lifewriting
November 20, 2024 at 2:46 PM
If you love memoir and reading personal essays, come and join me and others for my first Memoir Club - on Zoom tonight. You need to be subscribed to our @londonlitlab.bsky.social Substack to join. But it will be worth it! We're discussing Natalia Ginzburg's 'He and I'. #memoir #lifewriting
Morning doggie doing what’s she’s really good at. This is Elsa. She’s a SuperDog #dogtricks #dogsofbluesky
November 18, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Morning doggie doing what’s she’s really good at. This is Elsa. She’s a SuperDog #dogtricks #dogsofbluesky
Just watched The Outrun and wow, was blown away. Such a visual, emotional, poignant, multilayered film, and such a brilliant adaptation of a memoir. Everyone must see it… Loved loved loved it ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Just watched The Outrun and wow, was blown away. Such a visual, emotional, poignant, multilayered film, and such a brilliant adaptation of a memoir. Everyone must see it… Loved loved loved it ❤️