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Category: Creative Writing

‘Love from Polly’ by Polly Constance

6th April 2021  Polly Constance

In this poetic record of responses to her close friend and collaborator, Polly Constance captures the broken forms of contact and socially distanced care many of us have encountered during lockdown.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: communication, dancers, dancing, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, emails, Friends, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, letter writing, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Polly Constance

What Happened to the Adders? by Suzannah Ball

31st March 202131st March 2021  Suzannah Ball

In this personal essay, Suzannah Ball meditates on what death means for those left behind, the experience of intergenerational grief and the effect of small but continuous losses on our lives.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, death, grief, Intergenerational grief, loss, mortality, Pandemic, Suzannah Ball

Disagreements in lockdown by Shamini Sriskandarajah

29th March 202129th March 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

In this compelling personal essay, Shamini Sriskandarajah recounts a year of trying to connect with friends over text, email, phone and post; of having to explain racism to one white friend and denounce violent sexism to another.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Asian women, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

The Friends You Never Met (2020-2021) by Jess Moody

17th March 2021  Jess Moody

Sharp, witty and poignant, Jess Moody’s short fiction imagines the encounters and relationships that could have been enjoyed and nurtured were it not for lockdown.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Flash Fiction, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Jess Moody, Lockdown, Lockdown Living

◑ New Suns Journal ◑

15th March 202116th March 2021  Sammy Weaver

Our writer, Sammy Weaver, creates a thrillingly imaginative response to the Barbican’s recent feminist literary festival, New Suns, and reimagines words as seeds, bodies as earth and people as lichens.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: adrienne maree brown, Alice Spawls, Ama Josephine Budge, Barbican Centre, Donna Haraway, Dorothea Lasky, Fabrizio Terranova, Izabella Scott, New Suns, Octavia Butler, Sammy Weaver, The White Review

‘We Might Be The Next Toni & Angela’ by Janyce Denise Glasper

11th March 202111th March 2021  Janyce Denise Glasper

In this heartfelt personal essay, artist Janyce Denise Glasper recalls the years of solid friendship she’s shared and enjoyed with writer Asia Aneka Anderson, the Angela Davis to her Toni Morrison.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Angela Davis, Artist, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Gail Jones, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Toni Cade Bambera, Toni Morrison, writing

‘Voice’ by So Mayer

10th March 202110th March 2021  So Mayer

After seeing artist Charlotte Salomon’s work in an exhibition before the first lockdown, So Mayer started to reflect on the evolution of Salomon’s innovative, word-strewn paintings. Here, they consider how Salomon’s work conjures and embodies a unique voice, a bold assertion of self that defies curatorial and art historical prejudices.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Alfred Eolfsohn, Artist, Bizet, Carmen, Charlotte Salomon, Freud, holocaust, James Joyce, Leben? oder Theater?, opera, painting, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, So Mayer, Toni Bentley, voice

God Unexpected: a short story by Suzannah Ball

8th March 202131st March 2021  Suzannah Ball

God enters into two young girls’ lives without warning, in this vividly haunting story of religion and family dynamics.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: baptism, church, family, Fiction, God, religion, Short Stories

“We were very merry”: What Ida Nettleship John taught me about friendship and growing up

3rd March 20213rd March 2021  Eliza Goodpasture

Reading about the life and friendships of artist Ida Nettleship John has given doctoral student, Eliza Goodpasture, comfort during lockdown and companionship when friends feel far away.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Dorealia McNeil, Edna Clarke Hall, Edna Waugh, Eliza Goodpasture, friendship, Gwen Salmond, Ida John, Sale School of Art, Wuthering heights

How I Write: on poetry, grief, and inspiration

2nd March 20212nd March 2021  Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson explores the creative space of poetry, writing through grief and loss, poetry as identity, and words as ‘the hope in brilliant darkness of a flame’.

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Posted in Arts, Arts Essays, Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, PoetryTagged: grief, inspiration, loss, Poetry, Susan Wilson

‘Kindling healing’ and other poems by Kashiana Singh

1st March 20211st March 2021  Kashiana Singh

Kashiana Singh’s tightly knit poems, ‘Kindling healing’ and ‘The night spills’, explore night and day in all their haunting nuance and mesmerising movement.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: day, Kashiana Singh, love, Night / Shift, night shift, Night Sky, night time, Poet, Poetry

‘The Best Years of Your Life?’ by Dorothy Reddin

25th February 202125th February 2021  Dorothy Reddin

For Dorothy Reddin, lockdown has shown that life is too short and precious to surround yourself with toxic friendships. Here she talks about her time at university and how she came to reevaluate her circle of friends.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Dorothy Reddin, essay, female friendships, friendship, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, personal essay, sexuality, toxic friendship, University

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