Own Your Life Writing is a project focused on the transformative power of life writing and storytelling. We host workshops and events for virtual communities and in the London area, as well as publish collections of stories both in-print and digitally.

Our purpose is to create a safe and supportive space where people can begin to explore, process, and write openly and honestly about their life experiences. Writing about our experiences is a natural act of self-care: a precursor to crucial awareness, powerful expression, and cathartic release.

The workshops focus as much on contemporary technique and practice as they do connection and well-being. Often it is less about the writing — certainly less about the formal properties of language — and more about the life. But it is through the language that we are able to see and understand each other and ourselves.