Huge thanks to Jessie from The Mancunion Books team for this write up of @lilydunn.bsky.social's memoir workshop in Manchester last month.
Read the piece here: mancunion.com/2025/11/15/a...
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@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/
Huge thanks to Jessie from The Mancunion Books team for this write up of @lilydunn.bsky.social's memoir workshop in Manchester last month.
Read the piece here: mancunion.com/2025/11/15/a...
#amwriting #memoir #booksky
Thrilled to have received today my copy of @lilydunn.bsky.social’s “Into Being” here in Switzerland. Can’t wait to read! #booksky #writingcommunity #memoir #lifewriting @manchesterup.bsky.social
10.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Hope you enjoy!
03.11.2025 08:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Image shows the cover of Into Being (the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform) by Lily Dunn
Image shows the cover of Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka
Image shows the cover of The Book of Bogs (stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands), edited by Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw
My current pre-order list:
03.08.2025 10:11 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0From the heart of your experience
You can birth writing
In line with your values
A tapestry made with faith
harnessing the therapuetic
"Find meaning in raw experience & elevate the personal to the universal"
Lily Dunn
Look forward to seeing @lilydunn.bsky.social
@carogileswrites.bsky.social
Was lovely to meet you!
30.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to this!
27.10.2025 19:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ever wondered what it really takes to get your book into the world?
Join us for an inspiring & practical discussion in SE London with leading voices from across the publishing industry including author & teacher @lilydunn.bsky.social - tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso... #booksky
Join @lilydunn.bsky.social and @jennashworth.bsky.social for a conversation on memory & the art of the memoir at @blackwelloxford.bsky.social.
Both acclaimed memoirists, Lily & Jenn will discuss their new books and the craft of sharing your story.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lily-dunn-...
Looking forward to this …
09.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0A ‘clearsighted and passionate exploration of the craft of memoir writing’
Wonderful review of Into Being by @lilydunn.bsky.social We can’t wait to get our hands on a copy. It sounds like essential reading for all memoirists.
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Thank you!
09.10.2025 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you xx
08.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On my Reading List: Into Being by @lilydunn.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
My first review. And book of the week!
08.10.2025 10:18 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1Very excited Into Being is launched today
07.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1'It will leave you with a towering stack of recommendations on the pile labelled want-to-read-next.'
Thanks to @rte.ie Culture for making @lilydunn.bsky.social's new book 'Into being' their Book Of The Week: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Out now, available from bookshops & online. #booksky
On Hannah Murray's TRE in the Afternoon from 16.00CET - @lilydunn.bsky.social with 'Into being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform', Eric C. Rath on 'Kanpai: The History of Sake', and Charlie Brougham's weekend sport round up
06.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to reading @lilydunn.bsky.social’s “Into Being”, which launches today, live on Substack at 7 pm BST! #writing #memoir
06.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0London people interested in memoir, the craft of non-fiction, and how we shape lives into words on a page, this is for you!
I will be in conversation at Daunt Books in Notting Hill with @lilydunn.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social ...
See you there!
#nonfiction #writing #memoir
This is such a fantastic project and I really want to take part www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
30.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely to see @lilydunn.bsky.social's reading list for her excellent book on crafting memoir 'Into Being', and especially to see Some of Us Just Fall described as 'a superlative illness memoir.' Read about the books discussed in the book here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/09...
25.09.2025 19:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1INTO BEING: A reading list
We asked author @lilydunn.bsky.social to compile a list of books by the authors she interviewed for her new book, 'Into being'.
Full list on our Blog now, and you can also shop the full list on @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social' @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now.
Really looking forward to hosting the great @lilydunn.bsky.social in conversation with @mariannebrooker.bsky.social. October 16th, tickets this way---> www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bos...
23.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0So lovely to see Into Being out in the world
22.09.2025 10:07 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Done! Sorry
22.09.2025 10:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes of course
21.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Join us next month as @lilydunn.bsky.social hits the road next month to launch her new book, 'Into being', sharing the secrets of writing memoir.
Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky
We spoke to @lilydunn.bsky.social ahead of the release of her new book, 'Into being', about creative process, writers that influenced her, early responses to the book, and much more.
Read the full Q&A on our blog here:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/09...
#memoir #author #booksky
To celebrate the imminent release of @lilydunn.bsky.social's 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform' in October, Lily has compiled a fascinating list of the authors she interviewed for the book for her local @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social:
12.09.2025 07:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0