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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College. Join our writing group: https://t.co/zf3kdktJKu. Subscribe: https://t.co/ZXb2M03Xbf
Wolfson College, Oxford
Joined October 2011
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Satara Uthayakumaran is a 2025–26 Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholar at OCLW. Currently Australia’s 2025 UN Youth Representative, she is developing a book on youth-led change drawing on her national listening tour with young Australians. #LifeWriting #Oxford
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Delighted to welcome Matseliso Motsoane to OCLW as a 2025–26 Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholar. A historian and cultural worker, she is writing biographically on Lesotho’s urban creatives, using oral history and archival material. #Oxford
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Thrilled to welcome Ethan Hemmati to OCLW as a 2025–26 Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholar. A Scottish-Iranian PhD candidate, he is writing a monograph on adultery in postwar American literature through the lens of life-writing and biography. #LifeWriting #Oxford
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Helena De Tiège is a 2025–26 Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholar at OCLW. She’ll undertake a hybrid life-writing project that explores illness and isolation, blending introspection with broader social critique. #LifeWriting #Oxford
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We are honoured to support Dr Tembi Charles, one of our Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholars 2025-6. Her project memory and history as she traces her parents’ roles in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. #LifeWriting #Oxford
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Rahul Bishnoi joins us as a 2025–26 Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholar. Rahul is writing a lyrical biography of his mother exploring caste, maternal labour, and emotional inheritance in postcolonial India. #LifeWriting
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We are delighted to welcome Haneefah Armstrong to OCLW as a 2025–26 Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholar. Her project explores Islamic culture, trauma, and parentlessness through the reparative possibilities of creative non-fiction. #LifeWriting
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The #Oxford Centre for Life-Writing is proud to introduce the inaugural cohort of Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholars—marking the launch of a programme designed to recognise, foster, and champion work by marginalised voices.
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RT @DrKKennedy: 🏰 Our castle — home of the Tuscan life-writing retreat ✍️🍷 Can’t believe we’re into our fourth year already!. #WritingRetre….
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RT @DrKKennedy: Talking biography and all things life-writing with some fabulous writers and academics in 🇳🇴 #Norway, @USN_info — and being….
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Reminder: Tomorrow, join Jenny Uglow OBE as she explores the intersection of life and nature writing in 'A Year With Gilbert White: The Story of a Nature Writer'.1600-1800 at @unibirmingham. Registration: @engfac @TORCHOxford
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TOMORROW: Described as “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present", don’t miss @AvaChin's lecture on her award-winning memoir, 'Mott Street'.17:30 @WolfsonCollege.Register: @engfac
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🌱THIS WEEK: Explore entangled storytelling with waste, wildlife & technology at the More-than-human-stories symposium, 10–11 June @WolfsonCollege . In-person & online. Register: �.
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Jenny Uglow OBE reveals how Hampshire curate, Gilbert White's detailed journals became a cornerstone for later naturalists. Join OCLW for our collaboration with @artsofplace on 17 June at @unibirmingham. Registration: @engfac @TORCHOxford
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🌱TUESDAY: More-Than-Human Story-Making: artists, scholars & scientists unite 10–11 June at @WolfsonCollege & online to reimagine narratives beyond the human. Registration: 🌱.
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Discover how @AvaChin turned family archives, immigration files, oral histories, and census data into the powerful backbone of her award-winning memoir, 'Mott Street'.11 June, 17:30 @WolfsonCollege. Register: .@engfac @TORCHOxford
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Just under 2 weeks left to apply for our free Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers Programme! .Open to writers anywhere in the world (the programme takes place online!).Gain support and mentorship from world-leading experts. Details:
oclw.web.ox.ac.uk
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📸 TOMORROW: Join our seminar on 3 June, 14:00–17:00 @WolfsonCollege to explore family photographs and cultural memory with Marianne Hirsch and Sara Davidmann. Register: @OxfordHistory @OxfordArtHist @OCHJSnews 📸
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RT @OxLifeWriting: Your story matters. Through this free programme we’re offering space, support, and mentorship to underrepresented write….
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