Queering Memoir | with Jeremy Atherton Lin
Wednesday 22/10/25 to Wednesday 10/12/25
Eight weekly sessions
6.30-8pm
Wednesday 22/10/25 to Wednesday 10/12/25
Eight weekly sessions
6.30-8pm
Wednesday 22/10/25 to Wednesday 10/12/25
Eight weekly sessions
6.30-8pm
Course description
Queering Memoir with Jeremy Atherton Lin is a unique opportunity to develop the craft and conscience of exploring personal experience and identity on the page. By embracing all forms of writing the self – including autobiography, autofiction and experimental, genre-bending styles – this innovative, inspiring eight-week course will focus on self-exploration and self-expression, nurturing an authentic voice, and close engagement with both the writing of your fellow group members and a range of illuminating and intimate published texts. Queering Memoir will take place in an inclusive, affirming space, and especially welcomes LGBTQ+ writers and diversity in all its forms.
About the tutor
Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian American essayist now primarily based in the UK. He is the author of Deep House, a USA Today national bestseller, and Gay Bar, a New York Times Top Book of 2021 and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. His essays have appeared in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Yale Review, from which he was anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. His work has been shortlisted for the Randy Shilts Award, the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and the National Magazine Award, and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. He lectures at universities internationally, and has taught alongside writers and thinkers such as Maggie Nelson and Grace Lavery.