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LIVE
Resources
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Research
People
Opportunities
Support us
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What's on

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Female Authorship and Activism

Border fence

Authorial Border-Crossings and Freedom of Speech

Write your story

Literary Celebrity, Activism, and the ‘Industry’

PEN

The Writers’ Activism of PEN

Printing wood stamps

Authorship and Authority

Catch up with past talks

mummy and daddy

"But I’m nothing special…”: Reflections on Writing the Lives of ‘Ordinary’ People

Tuesday 14 April

Art & Action image

Art & Action: Authorship, Celebrity, and Politics

Tuesday 7 April

Books

Balancing Acts: Negotiating Relations in Response to Trauma in life-writing

Tuesday 21 April

El greco view of toledo

El Greco: The Bivalent Artist

Lake and mountains

Inscribing biographies in Global South History

Saturday 1 June 2019

vintage typewriter

Narrative Agency, Life Writing, and the Experience of Illness

Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives

Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia

Saturday 1 June 2019

Yellow wall with window

The Elusive Subject: Biographies of Exiles

Rose

‘Where is this British Empire?’ Doris Lessing’s Life-Writing

Tuesday 16 June

virginia woolf at monks house

“The life to uncover” Virginia Woolf’s romantic life writing

Life-Writing of Immeasurable Events (LIVE)

Notebook and Fountain Pen

Of quill pens and keypads: the psychological urgency of life-writing

Thursday 9 April

Telephone

Cullen 3

Four dolls in masks

Four Masks of friendship

Thursday 2 July

Henri Matisse The Italian Woman L'Italienne

The Italian Girl by Matisse

Saturday 4 July

Sunlight

Find inspiration for your life-writing

Paper fragments

Found in the news

Friday 7 August

Our Research

Accelerate Hub group

Accelerate Hub

Words on a wall

Dangerous Words: A Biography

Marble on the seashore

Life-Writing of Immeasurable Events

lives in medicine

Lives in Medicine

WMW

Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds

redress

Re:dress Women Composers

southern imagining

Southern Imagining

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