Dear readers of the European Journal of Life Writing,

We are pleased to announce that the first contributions to volume 15 of the European Journal of Life Writing are now online.

The 2026 edition of the journal is off to a great start with two papers:

- "Translated Autobiographies in an Interconnected World: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Religious Memoirs" by Martin Åberg and Hanna Enefalk

- "Automathographical Traces in Wang Zhenyi’s travel poetry" by Maria Tamboukou

Also online now, are three book reviews:

- Zachary Leader’s Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, reviewed by James Woodall

- Rimko van der Maar’s In de ban van Vietnam: De Vietnamese onafhankelijkheidsstrijd en het Westen [Enthralled by Vietnam; The Vietnamese struggle for independence and the West], reviewed by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar

- Grant Rodwell’s A Pedagogist’s Memoir: Some Boys Are Born Twice, reviewed by Loretta Bowshall-Freeman

Finally, two works of creative non-fiction have been added in our Creative Matters section:

- “Art School Prostitute” by Dylan Jonas Stone

- “A Place to Stand: Life Writing and an Immigrant’s Journey Towards Belonging” by Anne Bradley

As always, you are cordially invited to publish your life writing research, book reviews and creative matters in our journal. Guidelines can be found here or you can contact us at ejlw@rug.nl if you have any questions about the process.

Warm regards, also on behalf of the journal's board and editorial team,

Katrin Bingham
Assistant Journal Manager