DeathWrites Network (2017 - present)  

The DeathWrites Network started at the University of Glasgow in 2017 with a series of reading and writing workshops. We then became a A University of Glasgow Arts Lab  and held a number of workshops, events and public symposia to act as catalyst to writing on dying, death and grief.

From Feb 2022-July 2024 we were honoured to be a Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded Network undertaking a project called COVID as Catalyst for Writing and Discussing Death, Dying and Grief through Objects, Diaries and Collective Archives. For two and a half years, the Network supported 30 Scotland-based writers from across disciplines and genres to write and publish powerful, accessible work. This website, the blog and the newspaper are all outcomes of this project. Perhaps most importantly, DeathWrites has been a support and resource for our many writers who are making and publishing their own work that reaches wide audiences, with the Network acting as a useful touchstone for them.

Over its lifespan the Network has been supported by RSE, The University of Glasgow Arts Lab and the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group. 

From Summer 2024 the DeathWrites Network of writers continues as a University of Glasgow Arts Lab and will continue to host events to support our writers and our readers, to host our Living Archive Website, and we are aiming to produce an anthology of work on dying, death, grief and writing.  The work produced by the writers who are a part of this project will serve as resources for other individuals, communities and writers to expand thinking, understandings and activism around death, dying and bereavement.

• Read about Network events

• Read our Newspaper