Into Being

Name: Into Being
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ISBN: 9781526179258

The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform

Lily Dunn

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Manchester University Press
01 November 2025

Memoirs; Creative writing & creative writing guides

The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.

Into being is an essential guide to writing memoir in a radical and empowering way. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing, Lily Dunn presents the ground-breaking idea that the craft of memoir itself can offer a form of transformation.

Dunn demystifies the memoirist's art, helping readers to find meaning in raw experience and elevate the personal to the universal. She considers intriguing questions, from why our memories give greater significance to certain events to how we can write honestly without intruding too far into the lives of our loved ones. She also explores how writers are extending the memoir form to create something hybrid, playful and subversive.

In an age of social media, filled with confessions, re-inventions and distortions of the self, the question of what it means to be an individual is more urgent than ever. Into being shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery

one that can be shared with the whole world.

By: Lily Dunn
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526179258
ISBN 10: 1526179253
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lily Dunn is a memoirist, teacher and mentor. Her literary memoir Sins of My Father was published to great acclaim in 2022, being named a best nonfiction book of the year by the Guardian and the Spectator. She is also the author of Shadowing the Sun (2007) and co-editor of A Wild and Precious Life (2021). She is co-director of London Lit Lab and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.

Reviews for Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform

‘A beautiful book: absorbing, propulsive, generous and humane, both in its honesty and in its willingness to share process.’ Marina Benjamin, author of The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty -- .