The Edinburgh Life-Writing Network is hosted by the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

It brings together writers, researchers and students with interests in writing lives – biography, autobiography, memoir, and other forms of life-writing – with regular work-in-progress presentations and colloquia, a reading group, public talks and events, and a podcast interview series, Writing Lives.

ELWN is closely associated with the Biography strand of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the James Tait Black Visiting Writers Programme.

Please write to the contact email address if you’d like to be included on the mailing list.

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