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Tag: creative non-fiction

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

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious

‘Labelled for Your Convenience’ by Marissa McCallam

19th June 20203rd August 2020  Marissa McCallam

In this witty and moving piece, Marissa McCallam reflects on navigating the world as a brown girl, encountering other people’s racist views and prejudices, connecting with her mixed heritage and embracing the freedom and power of ambiguity.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Black Lives Matter, Centre Myself, creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, Marissa McCallam, non-fiction, Race, Racial Identity

‘Three Wise Women’ by Irenosen Okojie

25th May 202022nd October 2020  Irenosen Okojie

In her latest work of creative non-fiction, award-winning author Irenosen Okojie explores the rich legacy of hope and life handed down through her mother and grandmother. In hauntingly beautiful prose, Okojie reflects on how past events can offer light and healing in present times of difficulty.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Butterfly Fish, Caine Prize for African Writing, creative non-fiction, Dialogue Books, Elitsa Dermendzhiyska, essay, Irenosen Okojie, Jacaranda Books, Nudibranch, Short Stories, Speak Gigantular, Three Wise Women, Unbound

‘Nebula of the Sea’ by Tilda Bowden

23rd January 20206th May 2020  Tilda Bowden

Writing of her own experiences of under water diving, Tilda Bowden describes a world of wonder beneath the surface of the sea by day, and its celestial transformation by night.

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Posted in Arts, Creative Writing, EnvironmentTagged: creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, Environment, Night / Shift, non-fiction, Ocean, Paul Klee, swimming

Threads by William Henry Searle – a rich and brilliant tapestry of nature’s wilds

19th March 201928th August 2019  Gabriela Frost

William Henry Searle’s Threads is a call to order and serves to remind us of our material and spiritual reliance on the natural world. But is Searle’s encounter with nature relatable? asks our arts writer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, Books, EnvironmentTagged: Chris Packham, creative non-fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, memoir, nature, New Forest, Snowdonia, Threads, William Henry Searle
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