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  1. ‘Part Fable, Part Porridge’: Jackie Kay & Dame Hermione Lee on Writing the Self

    For many theorists of autobiography, the form assumes a self that can be known & a life that can be accounted for. But how do you write an autobiography when your origin & identity are unknown, uncertain, or multiple?

    youtube.com/watch?v=fBRPfyW2Vjk

    #Scottish #literature #writing #autobiography #lifewriting #identity #ScottishIdentity #adoption

  2. ‘Part Fable, Part Porridge’: Jackie Kay & Dame Hermione Lee on Writing the Self

    For many theorists of autobiography, the form assumes a self that can be known & a life that can be accounted for. But how do you write an autobiography when your origin & identity are unknown, uncertain, or multiple?

    youtube.com/watch?v=fBRPfyW2Vjk

    #Scottish #literature #writing #autobiography #lifewriting #identity #ScottishIdentity #adoption

  3. BECOMING A MAN INSIDE A MAN’S BODY — Why I Couldn’t Fit Into Sexual Roles

    I lived for a long time between definitions — not wanting labels that didn’t fit, yet not feeling prepared for the roles I was told a man should embody.

    This piece is about becoming, not explaining.
    About learning to inhabit the self without force or performance.

    🔗 Article link below

    medium.com/@dianabasieseme_600

    #Masculinity #Identity #SelfDiscovery #InnerWork #Becoming #PersonalEssay #LifeWriting #ConsciousLiving

  4. NEW BLOG: 'Life writing, family stories and "history from below"', by Alison Twells, author of 'A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age'

    'We still have so few accounts of ordinary peoples’ lives told in their own voices and on their own terms [...] might Norah’s diaries allow a different kind of access to a working-class girl’s interior life?'

    Read the post: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/l

    Read the book: doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461

    #OAbooks #OpenAccess #LifeWriting

  5. NEW BLOG: 'Life writing, family stories and "history from below"', by Alison Twells, author of 'A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age'

    'We still have so few accounts of ordinary peoples’ lives told in their own voices and on their own terms [...] might Norah’s diaries allow a different kind of access to a working-class girl’s interior life?'

    Read the post: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/l

    Read the book: doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461

    #OAbooks #OpenAccess #LifeWriting

  6. Decide How You’ll Write About Your Life

    We here at WU believe in fiction’s power, and work every day to improve how we wield it. But many of life’s real events can be spun into equally engrossing stories. This raises a quandary for the writer who hopes to process, and then share, an aspect of their life on the page.
    writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/d

    #REALWORLD #Writinglife #creativenonfiction #KathrynCraft #lifewriting

  7. Decide How You’ll Write About Your Life

    We here at WU believe in fiction’s power, and work every day to improve how we wield it. But many of life’s real events can be spun into equally engrossing stories. This raises a quandary for the writer who hopes to process, and then share, an aspect of their life on the page.
    writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/d

    #REALWORLD #Writinglife #creativenonfiction #KathrynCraft #lifewriting

  8. “Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”

    SNACK Magazine speaks to Rodge Glass about moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir

    snackmag.co.uk/rodge-glass-loo

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #biography #lifewriting

  9. “Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”

    SNACK Magazine speaks to Rodge Glass about moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir

    snackmag.co.uk/rodge-glass-loo

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #biography #lifewriting

  10. Today is #welovememoirsday and also @unesco International Day for People of African Descent
    To celebrate both, remember you can find lots and lots of #memoirs by #BlackWriters in our collection. The picture shows only a small part!

    #BlackVoices #BlackAuthors #LifeWriting #Autobiography

  11. The 3rd & final day of #DGAVL #conference today saw another great & diverse mix of topics - from #disability #lifewriting in Argentinian lit. in Malena Pastoriza's paper, to Ines Gstrein's on Ali Smith, Piera Mazzaglia on Humans of New York & Serena Obkircher on Barbi Marković's "Minihorror"...

  12. The 3rd & final day of #DGAVL #conference today saw another great & diverse mix of topics - from #disability #lifewriting in Argentinian lit. in Malena Pastoriza's paper, to Ines Gstrein's on Ali Smith, Piera Mazzaglia on Humans of New York & Serena Obkircher on Barbi Marković's "Minihorror"...

  13. Some highlights of this #DGAVL #conference include @NitzkeSolvejg's talk on tree/nature/ #lifewriting as well as Monika Schmitz-Emans on artists' books, Beatrice Nickel on graphic #autobiographies & Patrick Lars Müller on autobiographical accounts of encounters w #aliens 👽- very diverse topics!

    #LiteraryStudies #biographies

  14. Can you be in 2 places at once...? 🤔 Well, the #FIDAAC can! We're currently not only at the #conference of the #DGfA in Siegen but also at the one of the #DGAVL (Dt. Gesell. f allg. & vgl. Lit.Wiss) in Gießen, which discusses #lifewriting from many angles. Pls say hi if you're here or there, too!👋

  15. Another great panel at the GAPS #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"

    #BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies #LifeWriting #BlackStudies

  16. "feeling singular" by Ben Bascom looks at #queer #Masculinities in the #history of the early United States - a #QueerStudies approach to the #biographies of 5 unique but lesser-studied individuals at odds w traditional masculinity

    #AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #MasculinityStudies #LifeWriting

  17. This 2021 essay collection, edited by Baisnée-Keay et al, explores the relationship between words & images in women’s #lifewriting & visual art incl Georgia O'Keeffe, Alison Bechdel, Zelda Fitzgerald & more

    opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=

    #womenwriters #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies

  18. We are happy to announce that contributions to the @ACDHCH_OeAW @oeaw workshop & conference Life Narrative and the Digital 2023 will be published in a special cluster of European Journal of Life Writing.

    Stay tuned for updates!

    #DigitalBio2023 #OpenAccess #DH #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting

    @fwf

  19. 📢 Registration for Life Narrative and the Digital 2023 open until 20 September: pretix.eu/digitalbio
    Join us in person or online free of charge.
    #DigitalBio2023 #LifeWriting #DigitalHumanities #DH @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

  20. 📢 Registration for Life Narrative and the Digital 2023 open until 20 September: pretix.eu/digitalbio
    Join us in person or online free of charge.
    #DigitalBio2023 #LifeWriting #DigitalHumanities #DH @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

  21. We are happy to announce the preliminary program for Life Narrative and the Digital 2023 👉 digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac.
    Join us for a wide range of exciting international papers & project presentations!
    Stay tuned for updates via #DigitalBio2023.
    @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf #DH #LifeWriting

  22. The call for papers for #DigitalBio2023 is open until 🗓️ 2023-05-26.
    1⃣4⃣ days to send your proposal. ⏱️
    Become part of the event: digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac. 🙌
    #LifeWriting #DH #DigitalHumanities @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

  23. Workshop "Biografieforschung und -vermittlung im digitalen Raum", 2023-05-05, am @ACDHCH_OeAW. Organisiert von @AMP_OeAW, Evelyne Luef, @kathi_prager. Mit Beiträgen von Anja Grebe, @worknet, Eva Mayr, @f46906169, @luntner, Patrick Aprent. #DH #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting

  24. #DigitalBio2023 is fully committed to fostering open dialogue & support among the scholarly community. This is why we have opted for open peer review through openreview.net.
    Become part of the event 👉 digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac. (call open until 05/26)
    @fwf @ACDHCH_OeAW #DH #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting #OpenReview

  25. #DigitalBio2023 will feature a plenary discussion 🎙️ w/ @Anna_Spitzbart (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg), @ChristianWachter (Universität Bielefeld), & Anja Grebe (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) 👀

    Become part of the event 👉 digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac. (call open until 05/26) @fwf @ACDHCH_OeAW #DigitalHumanities #DH #LifeWriting

  26. Come join us for 'Life Narrative and the Digital 2023' - an interdisciplinary conference and workshop.
    🗓️ 26-27 Sep 2023
    📍 Vienna - Austrian Academy of Sciences and @ACDHCH_OeAW
    📢 Call for papers: digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac. (open until 26 May 2023)
    #DigitalBio2023 @fwf #DH #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting

  27. 🔥 Now #OpenAccess: new research on #WHAuden's Austrian period 1958-73 - situated at the intersection of #LifeWriting, #PersonaStudies, & #DigitalEdition - through previously unresearched files at the Austrian State Archives. ➡️ doi.org/10.14220/9783737014946 #AustrianAuden @FWF