The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College. A world-leading centre for the research and practice of life-writing. Join us for events, classes, & more.
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‘Such dynamic energy, international connections, and imaginative reach.’
— Hermione Lee
As part of our 15th Anniversary Director’s Appeal, help us secure OCLW's future for generations of life-writers to come.
Find out how you can support us today: buff.ly/H9ArCst
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TOMORROW: Explore how observing birds shapes life-writing and memoir. Amy Tan and Professor Andrew Gosler discuss attention, grief, and the rhythms of the natural world in The Backyard Bird Chronicles. @engfac
⏰ 17:30–19:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing retweeted
Jun 9
Help secure the future of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 🤝 . There are many ways you can support us - even through a repost! - find out more here: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/oclw-15th-…
#OCLW #Oxford #LifeWriting #CreativeWriting @WolfsonCollege @OxLifeWriting @UniofOxford @TORCHOxford
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TOMORROW: Anne Sebba and Dr Kate Kennedy explore the women of the Auschwitz-Birkenau orchestra, examining how music shaped survival and how their stories are remembered @OxfordHistory @engfac
📅 9 June | ⏰14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Register: buff.ly/K029wfZ
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Anne Sebba and Dr Kate Kennedy discuss the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau, exploring how music supported survival and how these stories are preserved in life-writing.
📅 9 June | ⏰ 14:00–15:30
📍 The Buttery, Wolfson College & Online
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Everything we do at OCLW relies on your support.
Support our 15th Anniversary Appeal today, and your gift will be matched by the Dorset Foundation, doubling your impact.
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Birdwatching as life-writing: Amy Tan and Professor Andrew Gosler explore observation, attention, and the rhythms of nature. @engfac @WolfsonCollege
📅 10 June | ⏰ 17:30–19:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Register: buff.ly/xqgXPyt
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TOMORROW: For many theorists, autobiography assumes a self that can be known. Jackie Kay explores what happens when identity is unknown, uncertain, or multiple in conversation with Hermione Lee. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 29 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
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"Patrons and Donors who support the Centre give writers the confidence and the skills to use their own voices to tell their stories"— Tan Twan Eng
The Dorset Foundation will match all gifts to OCLW—doubling your impact. Support our 15th Anniversary Appeal: buff.ly/qbGGFsf
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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing retweeted
May 26
Hermione Lee and I, about to launch into some exhilarating conversation about *Southern Imagining* and *Ice Shock*. What an immense privilege to face questions from a master interlocutor who had read the books in such depth. @OxLifeWriting @engfac @WolfsonCollege
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Elleke Boehmer and Hermione Lee discuss ‘Ice Shock’ and ‘Southern Lives’.
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What does it mean to write the lives of the women who survived Auschwitz by playing music for the SS? Anne Sebba reflects on this question in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy. @OxfordHistory @engfac
📅 9 June | ⏰ 14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
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Join us TOMORROW for the launch of @ellekeboehmer’s Ice Shock and Southern Imagining with Professor Dame Hermione Lee. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 TOMORROW, 26 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Free & open to all. Register: buff.ly/ZyP6A7x
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What can the unruliness of the natural world teach us about writing the self? Amy Tan and Professor Andrew Gosler discuss attention, grief, and memoir in The Backyard Bird Chronicles. @engfac @WolfsonCollege
10 June | 17:30–19:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege
buff.ly/xqgXPyt
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Chloe Dalton discusses the opening of ‘Raising Hare’ with Charlie Lee-Potter
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How do we imagine distant lives and environments? @ellekeboehmer and Professor Dame Hermione Lee explore this in conversation about Ice Shock and Southern Imagining. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 26 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
Free & open to all. Sign up: buff.ly/ZyP6A7x
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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing retweeted
May 21
A few weeks ago: doing the morning coffee run, Tuscan style - keeping our writers fuelled on our #writing retreat in glorious #Anghiari. @AvivaDautch, @OxLifeWriting, @WritingOxford #OCLW
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Scenes from our annual writing retreat
May 21
Room with a view! Hard not to be inspired to write here! @AvivaDautch, @WritingOxford, @OxLifeWriting #OCLW
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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing retweeted
May 21
Evening discussions - Sarah Ogilvie on her work on The Dictionary People, the forgotten and eccentric voices who helped shape the Oxford English Dictionary. @AvivaDautch, @WritingOxford, @OxLifeWriting. #OCLW
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