The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by experienced tutor Professor Tonya Hegamin.
📆Thursdays | 15:00
📍Online
Open to all
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Writer and critical theorist Professor Nicholas Royle examines the oddness of lived experience, where the familiar suddenly feels strange and reality’s ‘rules’ don’t quite hold. @engfac.bsky.social
📅 10 Feb | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + 💻 Online
Free and open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

No matter where you are or what stage your writing has reached, join our life-writing class next term to learn in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by award-winning author Rebecca Abrams.
📆 Mondays | 11am–1pm
📍 Wolfson College + Online
Open to all
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Isle McElroy (acclaimed author of The Atmospherians and People Collide) leads an online masterclass on using real life in fiction.
Registration is required and closes 17:00 on 24 February 2026 (places limited).
3 March | 17:30–19:00
💻 Online via Zoom
Register: buff.ly/87BmAth
@engfac.bsky.social

‘Nothing is made up’ and ‘everything is invented’ are both comforting stories. In this masterclass, Isle McElroy offers better tools: strategies for transforming real life into fiction and vice-versa.
3 March | 17:30–19:00
💻 Online via Zoom
Register: buff.ly/87BmAth
@engfac.bsky.social

Ice Shock: A Love Story with Elleke Boehmer - Hatchards, Piccadilly We hope you can join us for a discussion with Elleke Boehmer, author of 'Ice Shock', in conversation with Kate Kennedy here at Hatchards.

@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

If in London on Weds, please don’t forget to pop in to Hatchards Piccadilly at 630 for a conversation on my new novel Ice Shock with brilliant Kate Kennedy.

@engfac.bsky.social

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A supportive, expert-led life-writing class with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams. Small group, with optional submission opportunities for feedback.
📆Mondays | 11am
📍Wolfson College + Online
Open to all
buff.ly/dpvWVs6

US publication day of this beauty!
Southern Imagining—‘a new compass for global reading’. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Join @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social and @drkkennedy.bsky.social in conversation at Hatchards, Piccadilly on Wednesday

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by experienced tutor Professor Tonya Hegamin.
📆Thursdays | 15:00
📍Online
Open to all
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Today: Professor Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) joins us at OCLW for his public lecture ‘Life-Writing and the New Fantastic’. Registration closes 14:30! @engfac.bsky.social
📅 10 Feb | ⏰ 17:30
📍@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + 💻 Online via Zoom
Free and open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

Today: screening of 'Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm'— a film on a pioneering figure in British photography— followed by a Q&A with Monica Bohm-Duchen
14:00
Wolfson College + Online
Registration closes at 10:30
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Tomorrow: join us for 'Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm', celebrating Bohm as a pioneer of British photography and one of Britain’s finest humanist street photographers
10 February | 14:00
📍 The Buttery, Wolfson College + Online via Zoom
Open to all
Register now: buff.ly/RPOuMc8

Tomorrow, celebrated writer and theorist Prof Nicholas Royle (Sussex) joins us for a public lecture on ‘Life-Writing and the New Fantastic’. Register now! @engfac.bsky.social
📅 10 February | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + 💻 Online
Free and open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

Join OCLW's life-writing class to learn craft and form in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams.
📆Mondays in term time | 11am
📍Wolfson College + Online
Open to all
buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Writing Groups Our life-writing class offers a space for learning about and discussing topics in life-writing. Whether you are writing something yourself or are simply interested in the subject, this class has…

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by experienced tutor Professor Tonya Hegamin.
📆Thursdays | 15:00
📍Online
Open to all
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Join us for this term’s Jewish Women's Voices seminar, featuring a screening of a documentary and a conversation on a true pioneer: Dorothy Bohm, the ‘doyenne of British photography’
10 February | 14:00
📍@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Online
Open to all buff.ly/RPOuMc8 @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social

How do we love each other when the planet that we stand on is melting under our feet? Discussion about new novel ICE SHOCK @dauntbookspub.bsky.social Summertown last night. With Richard Beard. Rainy night but a full house. @karavanpress.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Today: join Saeed Taji Farouky for a timely talk on life-writing as a battleground for survival and cultural endurance amid genocide. Register by 14:30. 📅 Feb 3 | 17:30 📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Zoom🔗 buff.ly/Jr1gDyr@torc...

Join us tomorrow for Saeed Taji Farouky's lecture, "How Can We Creatively Document Life in a Time of Genocide?" exploring filmmaking as life-writing, the threat to archives, and the ethics of creative work in crisis.
📅 3 Feb | 17:30 📍@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Online. Open to all buff.ly/FigCgpA

What to expect from our life-writing classes: expert-led sessions, a supportive cohort, and practical opportunities to share work for feedback. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams.
📆Mondays | 11am
📍Wolfson College + Online
buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by experienced tutor Professor Tonya Hegamin.
📆Thursdays | 15:00
📍Online
Open to all
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

This Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar spotlights Dorothy Bohm’s pioneering contribution to British photography—and the life history behind the images—through a film screening and live Q&A.
10 February | 14:00
📍@wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Online
Open to all
buff.ly/RPOuMc8 @torchoxford.bsky.social

Isle McElroy (New York Times Editors’ Choice; People Collide named a best book of 2023 by multiple outlets) leads a craft session on using real life in fiction without getting trapped by it. Apply by 17:00 on 24 February.
3 March | 17:30–19:00
Online
Register: buff.ly/87BmAth
@engfac.bsky.social

What’s queer about contemporary life-writing? Nicholas Royle explores what changes when life-writing refuses tidy, ‘straight’ stories. @engfac.bsky.social
📅 10 February | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + 💻 Online via Zoom
Free and open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

No matter where you are and what stage your writing has reached, our life-writing class offers an expert-led, supportive space to learn and grow. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams.
📆Mondays | 11am
📍Wolfson College + Online
buff.ly/dpvWVs6

No matter where you are or what stage your writing has reached, join our life-writing class next term to learn in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by award-winning author Rebecca Abrams.
📆 Mondays | 11am–1pm
📍 Wolfson College + Online
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Today: Jeanette Winterson CBE joins Professor Jane Shaw for this year's Babcock Lecture. Registration closes at 14:30!
@engfac.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @sfu.ca
📅 24 January | ⏰ 18:00–19:30
💻 Online via Zoom
Free and open to all! 🎟️🔗 rb.gy/yldc3e

Tomorrow: Jeanette Winterson CBE joins Professor Jane Shaw (Oxford) for this year’s Babcock Lecture. Free to attend — register now to avoid disappointment! @engfac.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @sfu.ca
📅 24 January | ⏰ 18:00
💻 Online via Zoom
Free and open to all! 🎟️🔗 rb.gy/yldc3e

Generous reading. Honest responses. Support to improve. OCLW’s Online Writing Feedback Group is a tight-knit community for building good writing habits and strengthening your work. Led by experienced tutor Professor Tonya Hegamin.
📆Thursdays | 15:00
📍Online
Open to all
Register: buff.ly/dpvWVs6