Getting On: Understanding & Writing Love in Later Life is a new project that explores and embraces the lived experience and cultural representations of love in later life in Scotland today.
The project is being run from the University of Strathclyde by staff in Creative Writing and Social Work/Social Policy in collaboration with Autumn Voices, the organisation for growing old creatively.
What will be happening? We have a range of activities, co-delivered with Autumn Voices, that we hope will be of interest to anyone who has considered what it means to love as we grow older. We welcome any Scottish resident over 60 to sign up for any of these activities, whether you’re a writer or a reader, or you would like to reflect on your own lived experience.
• Love in later life creative writing workshops
• Love in later life reading groups
• The love in later life letter-exchange
• An anthology of writing on love in later life
You can read more about these activities on
our website or write to us at
loveinlaterlife@strath.ac.uk.