Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Into being : The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform - Lily Dunn

Into being

The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform

By: Lily Dunn

Paperback | 4 January 2027

At a Glance

Paperback


$32.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $8.25 with

 or 

Available: 4th January 2027

Preorder. Will ship when available.

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.

'As astute as it is generous' Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood

'A beautiful book: absorbing, propulsive, generous and humane' Marina Benjamin, author of The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty

'I copied many lines into my own journal.' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun

'A revelatory and vibrant exploration of the transformative power of memoir an essential read for writers, readers and teachers.' Jenn Ashworth, author of Notes Made While Falling

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 7th October 2025

More in Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides

The Daily Artist's Way : Creative Living Every Day - Julia Cameron
The Book of Alchemy : A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life - Suleika Jaouad
On Writing Well : Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction - William Zinsser
The Prosperous Heart : Creating a Life of Enough - Julia Cameron

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
You Need To Exist : A Book to Love and Destroy! - yungblud

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the Poet Within - Stephen Fry
A Long Game : How to Write Fiction - Elizabeth McCracken

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Into the Woods : How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them - John Yorke
We Need Your Art : Stop Messing Around and Make Something - Amie McNee
Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition - Pat Pattison

RRP $55.00

$33.75

39%
OFF
Writing Down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Within - Natalie Goldberg
Books that Made Us : The companion to the ABC TV series - Carl Reinecke
Complete Rhyming Dictionary : Updated and Expanded - Clement Wood
Trip to the Moon : Understanding the True Power Of Story - John Yorke