#LifeWriting

IndieAuthors.Social Newsindieauthornews@indieauthors.social
2025-10-09

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

Assoc for Scottish Literaturescotlit@mastodon.scot
2025-10-08

“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

FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2025-08-31

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

A bookstack of memoirs by Black anglophone writers in the Central Library Building of SUB Göttingen. The room is spacious and bright, with many bookshelves and wooden tables of people working in the background.
Auden in Austria DigitalAAD_OeAW@fedihum.org
2025-07-07

🔥 Excited to see the full special cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" in #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting now online:

ejlw.eu/announcement/view/223

We thank all contributors, reviewers, copy-editors, & journal editors; as well as @DHd for supporting this project through their #OpenAccess #Publikationsfonds.

@fwf @fwfopenaccess @ACDHCH_OeAW @oeaw @uwuttke @wscholger @altbot

#DigitalBio2023 #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting

1. "Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field" by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer,  pages LDi-LDxi.
2. "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Laksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvira Žvarte, pages LD1-LD34.
3. "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro,  pages LD35-LD58.
4. "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons,  pages LD59-LD86.
5. "The Digital Life Narrative of a Romanian Transgender Microcelebrity through the Lens of Networked Publics" by Alexandra Cotoc and Anamaria Radu,  pages LD87-LD109.
6. "About Disputed Existences: Dys4ia's Conflicted Status between Game and Autobiography" by Felix Tenhaef,  pages LD110-LD140.
7. "Narration Through Data: The Life and Relationships of a Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Merchant" by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alessia Spadi, and Federica Spinelli,  pages LD141-LD164.
8. "'To Bring Them into Dialog': A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital" by Caitriona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, Florian Windhager, and Sandra Mayer,  pages LD165-LD183.
FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2025-06-14

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"...

Malena Pastoriza in front of her presentationInes Gstrein in front of her presentationSerena Obkircher in front of her presentation
FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2025-06-13

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

Solvejg Nitzke in front of her presentationPatrick Lars Müller in front of his presentation
FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2025-06-13

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!👋

Organisers Annette Simonis & Kirsten von Hagen present the title of the conference
FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2025-05-30

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

Cherise Fung on video conference with her presentation Reading SilenceTola Ositelu in front of her presentation showing the 3 memoirs she analysedDorit Neumann in front of her presentation
2025-05-25

Just waiting for Amazon to give my memoir the go ahead, then it will be available!

#WritingCommunity #Author #Memoir #CreativeWriting #LifeWriting

Denice penrosedenicepenrose
2025-05-19

Make Life Your Biggest Art Project: Pia Leichter On Writing, Creative Courage, And Changing Your Narrative via @thecreativepenn
thecreativepenn.com/2025/05/05

Auden in Austria DigitalAAD_OeAW@fedihum.org
2025-05-12

🔥 Hot off the press:

Following on from our #DigitalBio2023 conference, the first three contributions to our special cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" in #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting have now been published:

ejlw.eu/announcement/view/208

@fwf @fwfopenaccess @ACDHCH_OeAW @oeaw @DHd @altbot

#OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #DH #LifeWriting

The image is a cover or promotional graphic for the "European Journal of Life Writing" (EJLW), specifically for the new cluster titled "Life Writing and the Digital." The title is prominently displayed at the top in blue text. Below the title, the cluster editors, Sandra Mayer and Timo Frühwirth, are mentioned. The graphic lists three articles within this cluster, each with a title and author(s):

    "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Lāksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvīra Žvarte.
    "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro.
    "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons.

At the bottom, the journal's name, website (ejlw.eu), and volume number (Vol. 14, 2025) are provided. The graphic also includes the journal's logo, which features a stylized image of a person writing. The overall design is clean and academic, with a focus on the content of the articles and the journal's branding.

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2025-04-28

My memoir 'Emerging: An Artistic Practice Saved My Life,' is currently being edited and will hopefully be available in May. The editors are doing a great job, and I'm happy with the process so far. You can find them at www.bookpublication.co.uk

#Memoir #CreativeWriting #LifeWriting

2025-03-10
Excited to announce the publication (open access) of my article

'How I became the man I had always been: Narrating the self in recent English and German life writing by trans men'

in Forum for Modern Language Studies

https://academic.oup.com/fmls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fmls/cqaf004/8042371

🌈🎓

#trans
#nonbinary
#lifewriting
Mika Gratzkemikagratzke
2025-03-10

Excited to announce the publication (open access) of my article

'How I became the man I had always been: Narrating the self in recent English and German life writing by trans men'

in Forum for Modern Language Studies

academic.oup.com/fmls/advance-

🌈🎓



Auden in Austria DigitalAAD_OeAW@fedihum.org
2025-02-13

📢 We are looking for a copy-editor (English-language editing and formatting according to the journal's style sheet) to collaborate with us on our special issue "Life Narrative and the Digital" for the #EJLW European Journal of Life Writing.

If you're interested, please get in touch for more information.

@ACDHCH_OeAW @oeaw @fwf

#academicwriting #lifewriting #dh

2025-01-12

🎧 HÖRTIPP: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz#DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 15: Das Leben am seidenen Faden – Erfahrungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit #Krebserkrankungen | mit Dennis Wilke 👉 magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of- @dfg_public

#LifeWriting #Nachwuchsförderung

FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2024-12-18

"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

The book "feeling singular" by Ben Bascom on a blue couch
FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2024-06-25

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

"Text and Image in Women's Life Writing" on a teal-coloured chair
FID Anglo-American CultureLibraryAAC@openbiblio.social
2024-06-25

2 new books for all enthusiasts of women's #biographies & #lifewriting in our collection!

Find out more in the replies!

#LiteraryStudies #autobiographies

Dearborn's Carson McCullers biography & "Text and Image in Women's Life Writing" on a teal-coloured chair
Eli Gabriel HareEliGH
2024-06-13

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