Public Lecture: Writing Abortion: Reflections on 'Larger than an Orange'
Tuesday 25 February 2025, 5.30pm - 7.15pm
The Buttery, Wolfson College
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Four years on from the publication of her experimental memoir, Larger than an Orange (Chatto & Windus, 2021), Lucy Burns revisits the ethical complexities of writing and publishing the book – and explores some of the unique challenges of writing about abortion.
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Lucy Burns (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Prose at Liverpool John Moores University. Her first book, Larger than an Orange, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2021. It was named a 2021 Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Lucy is currently working on a creative non-fiction book about the US liberal arts college, Black Mountain College.
Josephine Rosman (she/her) is a graduate of Oberlin College. She is currently reading for an MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the portrayal of female friendship in modern and contemporary women’s literature and feminist theory.
This event is hosted in collaboration with the Feminist Thinking Seminars, organised by students reading for the MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programme. Lucy Burns will also deliver a masterclass - 'Writing Shame: Navel Gazing, Subversion, and Subterfuge’. Further details are available here.
