Truth and Daring

Memoir evokes the concept of a ‘true story’. But what happens when we are daring enough to understand memory as a process of reimagining our truth, and memoir as the process of creatively doing so in writing? Exploring alternative approaches to writing memoir, this panel will explore how we can lean into this reimagining and remain grounded in the real.

Roxy Bourdillon is the author of What A Girl Wants: A (True) Story Of Sexuality And Self-discovery, an award-winning journalist and the editor-in-chief of DIVA, the world’s leading magazine for LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary people. Her writing has appeared in publications including Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Grazia, Marie Claire and Curve. Roxy’s work in the media has earned her a place in both The Guardian’s Pride Power List and the Attitude 101: LGBTQ+ Trailblazers Changing The World.

Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gay Bar: Why We Went Out. His essays appear in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement and the Yale Review, for which he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio. He is based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England. His latest book Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told is out now.

Dr Samuel Solomon is Professor of Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. Sam is a poet and translator, and is author of Special Subcommittee (Commune Editions, 2017) and co-translator from the Yiddish of The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin (Tebot Bach, 2014) alongside other academic and creative publications.  He is currently at work on a literary labour history of queer typesetting and a second collection of poems. 

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