Make Life Your Biggest Art Project: Pia Leichter On Writing, Creative Courage, And Changing Your Narrative via @thecreativepenn
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2025/05/05/make-life-your-biggest-art-project-pia-leichter-on-writing-creative-courage-and-changing-your-narrative/
#AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingTips #LifeWriting

🔥 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:

https://ejlw.eu/announcement/view/208

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

#OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #DH #LifeWriting

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

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

📢 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

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

#LifeWriting #Nachwuchsförderung

"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

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

#womenwriters #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies

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

Find out more in the replies!

#LiteraryStudies #autobiographies

#books #reading #lifewriting #arvon

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

Our 3rd post for #WomenHistoryMonth is by actor and playwright Debbie Cannon
on Alice Thornton (1626-1707) and her relationship with her niece-by-marriage, Anne Danby, and how she developed this in a play format. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2024-03-14-thornton-and-danby/ #LifeWriting #CreativeWriting #17thcentury @litodons @earlymodern @histodons @histodon

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

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

#VictorianLiterature

Es geht los. Möge die Reise möglichst abenteuerlos verlaufen. Ich hab nämlich noch was zu schreiben! 📖🖋️ #autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor #autorinontour #travelwriting #lifewriting #creativenonfiction

We have a new most read post for 2023! Thank you for counting down to 2024 with Alice Thornton's Books, and we wish you a very Happy New Year. Our most read blog post is my 'A House Divided', about the Restoration of Charles II and a domestic quarrel. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2022-09-12-a-house-divided/ #BritishCivilWars #17thcentury #Memoirs #LifeWriting @litodons @histodons @histodon #WomensHistory

We're down to our top two most read blog posts as we count down to 2024! Last year, my piece about finding two missing Alice Thornton manuscripts was in the very top spot. This year it's at number 2. Find out where the Alice Thornton's Books project all began. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2022-06-23-two-missing-thornton-manuscripts/
#EarlyModern #C17th #Memoirs #LifeWriting #WomensHistory @bookhistodons @histodons @histodon @litstudies

As we look over our top 5 blog posts, what better time to dip into the world of Alice Thornton (1626-1707). We'll keep you reading about the #17thC till the Eve of 2024. At no. 4, project postdoc Jo Edge brought us 'Alice Thornton, Memory and Middleham Castle'. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2022-07-25-alice-thornton-middleham-castle/
@histodons @histodon @litodons #BritishCivilWars #WomenInHistory #Memoirs #LifeWriting

We have also added more detail on the site about Alice Thornton's four manuscript books, especially her 'Book of Remembrances' which is where the 103pp of the partial release are from
https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
@histodons @histodon @litstudies
#bookhistory #Manuscripts #LifeWriting #Memoirs #17thC