Oxford Life-Writing

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Off to Literary Leicester by train! Couldn’t have asked for better weather. @engfac @OxLifeWriting

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by Prof Tonya Hegamin. 📆Thursdays | 15:00 📍Online Open to all buff.ly/dpvWVs6

My department in Bologna invites applications for visiting fellowships of 1-2 months in sept-dec 2026, for historians and scholars working on history and memory. Deadline 31 March 2026. More info via link centri.unibo.it/memorylab/en/v…

No matter where you are or what stage your writing has reached, join our life-writing class next term to learn in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by award-winning author Rebecca Abrams. 📆 Mondays | 11am–1pm 📍 Wolfson College + Online Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

youtube.com/watch?v=6QBRK7… Enjoy!!

Southern Imagining is out at last in the Southern Hemisphere. @WitsUniversity

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by Prof Tonya Hegamin. 📆Thursdays | 15:00 📍Online Open to all buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Worm in the Bud is out now, order here sandspout.co.uk/books/worm-in-…

This was such a fun paper!

Writer and critical theorist Professor Nicholas Royle examines the oddness of lived experience, where the familiar suddenly feels strange and reality’s ‘rules’ don’t quite hold. @engfac 📅 10 Feb | ⏰ 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege + 💻 Online Open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

@OxLifeWriting @UniofOxford @engfac

Had the pleasure of listening to Simon Horobin’s ongoing work on Lewis and Tolkien yesterday. Absolutely inspiring research. Very glad to be able to attend @OxLifeWriting’s events again.

No matter where you are or what stage your writing has reached, join our life-writing class next term to learn in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by award-winning author Rebecca Abrams. 📆 Mondays | 11am–1pm 📍 Wolfson College + Online Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

My big bright beautiful blue book’s 1st southern launch. Please feel very welcome. @engfac @OxLifeWriting

Isle McElroy (acclaimed author of The Atmospherians and People Collide) leads an online masterclass on using real life in fiction. Registration is required and closes 17:00 on 24 February 2026 (places limited). 3 March | 17:30–19:00 💻 Online Register: buff.ly/87BmAth

‘Nothing is made up’ and ‘everything is invented’ are both comforting stories. In this masterclass, Isle McElroy offers better tools: strategies for transforming real life into fiction and vice-versa. 3 March | 17:30–19:00 Online @engfac Register: buff.ly/87BmAth

A supportive, expert-led life-writing class with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams. Open to all. 📆Mondays | 11am 📍Wolfson College + Online buff.ly/dpvWVs6

All welcome!! ❄️ Chatting with the illimitable Kate Kennedy about my new novel ICE SHOCK at Hatchard’s Piccadilly this coming Wednesday the 18th. ❄️ Please don’t forget to get your ticket in advance. …keboehmerathatchards.eventbrite.co.uk

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@OxLifeWriting @engfac @WolfsonCollege Thoroughly disappointed to have missed this! Will a recording be made available at a later date?

Today: Professor Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) joins us at OCLW for his public lecture ‘Life-Writing and the New Fantastic’. Registration closes 14:30! @engfac 📅 10 Feb | ⏰ 17:30 📍@WolfsonCollege + 💻 Online via Zoom Free and open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by Professor Tonya Hegamin. 📆Thursdays | 15:00 📍Online Open to all buff.ly/dpvWVs6