Foreword, Caroline McMillen.- Editor's Preface, Jo Parnell.- Introduction, Hugh Craig.- PART 1: FOUND LIVES: REFRAMING THE LOST, THE INANIMATE AND THE HIDDEN.- 1. Obituaries: Behind the Public Tribute, Amanda Norman.- 2. Writing the Lives of Objects and Things, Donna L. Brien.- 3. Burra's Giant Onion and the Battle of the Somme, David Walker.- 4. Revealing What It Means To Be Human: The Nature of Literary Docu-Memoir, Jo Parnell.- 5. The Struggle in Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, Michael Sala.- PART 2: MOVING LIVES: RELOCATING IN TIME AND SPACE.- 6. Mapping Lives: (re-)making place, Sonya Huber.- 7. Spatial Experiments: Autobiographical Cartography, Vanessa Berry.- 8. Brief Encounters: Curating GIFs, Memes and Social Media for Short Story Life-Writing, Emma Newport.- 9. Biographical Lyric: Writing Lives in Poems, Page Richards.- 10. Writing Lines, Writing Lives: The Art of Poetic Biography, Jessica L. Wilkinson.- PART 3: YOUNG LIVES: NEW GROWTH.- 11. Giving Voice: A Different Approach to Life Writing, Willa McDonald.- 12. Autobiographical Writing for Children: Anh Do's The Little Helper and Malala Yousafzai’s Malala’s Magic Pencil, Kate Douglas.
Dr Jo Parnell, is Conjoint Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle University, Australia.