#lifewriting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lifewriting, aggregated by home.social.
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‘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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRPfyW2Vjk
#Scottish #literature #writing #autobiography #lifewriting #identity #ScottishIdentity #adoption
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7 Years by Lukas Graham is a nice song, isn't it?
I really like well written songs.
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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: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/life-writing-family-stories-and-history-from-below/
Read the book: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461
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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.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/decide-how-youll-write-about-your-life/#REALWORLD #Writinglife #creativenonfiction #KathrynCraft #lifewriting
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“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
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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! -
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"...
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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!
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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!👋
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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
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"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
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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
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1776482328
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2 new books for all enthusiasts of women's #biographies & #lifewriting in our collection!
Find out more in the replies!
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What if Hilary Rodham never married #BillClinton? The 2020 biofictional novel "Rodham" by Curtis Sittenfeld explores this #alternatehistory setting
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=168936386X
#biofiction #lifewriting #HilaryRodhamClinton #HilaryClinton #AmericanLiterature
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Fake it till you make it - was that the motto of #VictorianWriters like #WilkieCollins, the #Brontës, #Thackeray & #Stevenson? Find our more in Ellen Stockstill's study of Victorian documentary novels of 4 genres, incl #LifeWriting
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1856797937
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Es geht los. Möge die Reise möglichst abenteuerlos verlaufen. Ich hab nämlich noch was zu schreiben! 📖🖋️ #autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor #autorinontour #travelwriting #lifewriting #creativenonfiction
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My new story published on Illumination.
Is age just a number?
Would your knees agree with a statement like that? 😆https://medium.com/illumination/is-age-just-a-number-fbd7cef7695f
#MediumWriting #essays #LifeWriting #writingcommunity #medium @medium #Illumination #ageing haha #30s
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📢 Registration for Life Narrative and the Digital 2023 open until 20 September: https://pretix.eu/digitalbio
Join us in person or online free of charge.
#DigitalBio2023 #LifeWriting #DigitalHumanities #DH @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf