A Practical Introduction to Life Writing 1

Booking will close on Friday 3rd October 2025 at 12 noon.

Due to limited resources, we are UNABLE TO ACCEPT LATE BOOKINGS after this date.

THIS COURSE WILL BE HELD ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM.

A Practical Introduction to Life Writing 1 - Memoir, Biography and Creative Non-Fiction

Tuesday evenings 6.30 - 8.30 p.m. for ten weeks, 6th October to 8th December 2025

We all have stories to tell, yet writing non-fiction has its own peculiar difficulties. This course will explore, through examples and practical exercises, the art of writing from life. It provides an introduction to memoir and creative non-fiction using practical exercises designed to develop new writing skills and confidence in voice, tone, style and form of written work. This course is suitable for anyone who would like to begin life writing as well as more experienced writers who would like to develop their life writing skills or progress a life writing project. Early booking recommended.

Tutor: Josephine Jules Andrews

Josephine Jules Andrews is a memoirist and poet, and has taught life writing/creative non-fiction at the University of Dundee and then for Lifelong Learning Dundee since 2013.  Born in Dundee, she trained in Anthropology, Geography and Ecology at University College London and Washington University in St Louis, and worked in conservation in Europe, India and Madagascar. She won the Dundee University Student Led Teaching Award for Most Inspirational Teaching in 2017 and was nominated in 2018 and 2020 for the same award and for Best Feedback from a Tutor. Her students have published widely, and their writing has featured in exhibitions and events including Memoir is the New Black at the Dundee Literary Festival in 2017. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the National Association of Writers in Education. In 2020 she won the St John’s College Cambridge Harper Wood Award for English Literature and Poetry for her own writing, extended due to the pandemic to 2024-25.

Course code: 09 114

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