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Category: Non-Fiction

Patterns by Jane Hartshorn

26th April 202227th April 2022  Jane Hartshorn

In this poetic prose piece, Jane Hartshorn’s experience of Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder leads her to explore – through physical encounters, popular culture, and past relationships – the connections that we try to see between the disparate elements of our lives, in twists and turns that often have no neat resolution.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, PoetryTagged: Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour, Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder, Jane Hartshorn, My Body's Bodies Editorial, prose poems

Bunny Slopes by Clare Moore

14th April 2022  Clare Moore

Skiing down the snowy mountains of Virginia, Clare Moore learned to explore, to venture, to extend the limits of the possible and confront what Simone de Beauvoir once termed as the ‘timidity’ inhibiting women physically to be in the world.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Clare Moore, exercise, Feminism, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Simone de Beauvoir, skiing

Owning the Body by Ayo Deforge

21st March 2022  Ayo Deforge

In this moving and powerful piece, Author Ayo Deforge discusses bodily agency, freedom of choice and consent, and the French state’s unrelenting control over citizens’ bodies during the pandemic.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, OpinionTagged: Bodies, Corona Virus, Covid-19, France, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Pandemic, vaccination

Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness

14th March 202214th March 2022  Katy Wimhurst

In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Fiction, Franz Kafka, John Adair, Katy Wimhurst, Louise Kenward, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Rabih Alemeddine, Short Stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, Sol Worth, Susan Sontag, Through Navajo Eyes, Virginia Woolf

Lucy Writers Announces Our New Arts Council England Funded Project, What the Water Gave Us

24th February 202224th February 2022  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers is proud to announce its new Arts Council England funded mentoring project, What the Water Gave Us, for emerging women writers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Non-FictionTagged: Arts Council England, Arts Council England National Lottery Grant, Brexit Britain, Burley Fisher, Claire Hynes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Emma Claire Sweeney, Emma Hanson, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Immigration, Irenosen Okojie, Jenny Chamarette, Lucy Cavendish College, migrant writers, Migration, Pandemic, Rojbîn Arjen Yigit, Selin Genc, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Shirley Ahura, So Mayer, Susan Barker, Takeaway Press, The Ruppin Agency, water, What the Water Gave Us, Yen Ooi, Yvonne Battle-Felton

The Café and the Writer by Naima Rashid

15th February 202215th February 2022  Naima Rashid

Naima Rashid reflects on the pleasure and importance of the café space to her writing practise – a room of one’s own away from the demands of home and hearth.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: café, Lockdown, lockdown writing, Motherhood, Naima Rashid, Pandemic, women writers, writers, writing, Writing Life

Missed Hands by So Mayer

5th October 20216th October 2021  So Mayer

Tara Fatehi Irani’s outdoor performance, Mishandled Archive, dismantles and remantles the archive, embodies and rebodies memories, and, in its fragmentary state, gives us something to hold whilst holding us, writes So Mayer, in their stunning reflection on the artist’s work. With contributions from Elhum Shakerifar and Sam Fisher.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Dance, Non-FictionTagged: archives, Dance, Elhum Shakerifar, Fred Moten, Mishandled Archive, Performance, performance art, Samuel Fisher, So Mayer, Tara Fatehi Irani, The Conference of the Birds

Dwaal by Irenosen Okojie

4th October 20216th October 2021  Irenosen Okojie

In this courageous and powerful piece, Irenosen Okojie discusses the emotional abuse and exploitation Black women creatives have experienced in various arts industries and calls for greater accountability amongst white male perpetrators.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, OpinionTagged: art, black women, Black Women Creatives, Black Women's Lives Matter, Dwaal, Feminism, FKA Twigs, Intersectional Feminism, Irenosen Okojie, Publishing, Publishing Industry, Reese Witherspoon, Rolake Osabia, Shirley Jackson, Tina Turner

Cooking in Remembrance by Leila Gamaz

20th July 2021  Leila Gamaz

Unable to speak the same language, Leila Gamaz and her Algerian grandmother communicated through food. Here, Gamaz remembers their time cooking together and the meals savoured by all the family.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Covid-19, Eid, family history, Food, Grandmothers, heritage, Memorial

Venus Castina by Frankie Dytor

4th July 20214th July 2021  Frankie Dytor

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has inspired a wave of popular culture references and art historical speculation, but who was the true inspiration behind that smile, and could da Vinci’s famous painting be the trans icon we never knew we needed?

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Andy Warhol, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Beyoncé, Jay Z, Lady Gaga, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre, Mona Lisa, queer history, Venus Castina, Walter Pater, will.i.am

‘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

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