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The Consort of Closed Fists

Posted on: 6 December 2021 Last updated on: 23 January 2022 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Read and listen in English. Read and listen in Chinese / 中文.   The Consort of Closed Fists by Lixin Foo When the Emperor banished her in chains, her fingers moved on instinct. As a child, she’d made a habit…

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BackStory: Five Questions with Marie Hoy-Kenny

Posted on: 3 December 2021 Last updated on: 28 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

BackStory: Five Questions with Marie Hoy-Kenny Author of In the Hours Before the 1959 Auchengeich Coal Mine Disaster What inspired you to write ‘In the Hours Before the 1959 Auchengeich Coal Mine Disaster’? My father’s brothers worked at the Auchengeich…

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In the Hours Before the 1959 Auchengeich Coal Mine Disaster

Posted on: 29 November 2021 Last updated on: 28 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

In the Hours Before the 1959 Auchengeich Coal Mine Disaster by Marie Hoy-Kenny You wake, your wife Jean still serene in sleep, breathing deeply beside you. The sky is dark through the cracks between the curtains, but last night you…

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BackStory: Three Questions with Isabelle B.L

Posted on: 26 November 2021 Last updated on: 20 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

BackStory: Three Questions with Isabelle B.L Author of Cords What inspired you to write ‘Cords’? I was born in the 1970s and when I was a child, my mother wanted me to wear a girdle. I was on the chubby…

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Cords

Posted on: 22 November 2021 Last updated on: 20 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Cords by Isabelle B.L I’m a whale, a bell and a multifunctional cord. Today, I receive something to make my waist smaller. The giver says: “It’s made with 98 whale bones, my dear.” Hands of a woman I can’t see…

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BackStory: Four Questions with Claire Loader

Posted on: 19 November 2021 Last updated on: 12 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

BackStory: Four Questions with Claire Loader Author of Hunger What inspired you to write ‘Hunger’? I think like many people, I found myself during lockdown delving deeper into late night online rabbit holes than usual. One night I stumbled on…

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Hunger

Posted on: 15 November 2021 Last updated on: 15 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Hunger 1315 by Claire Loader The storms came in the spring, slipped the waking earth, hushed her back to sleep again. We scraped the bottom of our winter bowls, stagnated hours lingering, listless – lips parched with thinning prayers. I…

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BackStory: Five Questions with Robert Barrett

Posted on: 12 November 2021 Last updated on: 7 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

BackStory: Five Questions with Robert Barrett Author of Footprints in Water What inspired you to write ‘Footprints in Water’? I went to a boarding school in the 1980s. It was a sort of Irish Hogwarts where television was non-existent, the internet…

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Footprints in Water

Posted on: 8 November 2021 Last updated on: 8 November 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Footprints in Water by Robert Barrett On Christmas Eve, she fell; sucked downwards through the angry, screaming wind, head first, through two miles of unencumbered sky, and no thought can take root, only the biting of the seatbelt across her…

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BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn

Posted on: 5 November 2021 Last updated on: 29 October 2021 Written by: Ingrid Jendrzejewski

BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn Author of I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets What inspired you to write ‘I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets’ ? Back in 2018, my husband and I had the opportunity to go…

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BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn Author of I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets What inspired you to write ‘I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets’ ? Back in 2018, my husband and I had the opportunity to go…
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BackStory: Five Questions with Vanessa Couchman

BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn Author of I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets What inspired you to write ‘I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets’ ? Back in 2018, my husband and I had the opportunity to go…
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An Encounter Between the Poet and the Mantis

BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn Author of I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets What inspired you to write ‘I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets’ ? Back in 2018, my husband and I had the opportunity to go…
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BackStory: Four Questions with D.E. Hardy

BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn Author of I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets What inspired you to write ‘I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets’ ? Back in 2018, my husband and I had the opportunity to go…
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What We Believed

BackStory: Five Questions with Morgan Quinn Author of I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets What inspired you to write ‘I Have Suffered the Atrocity of Sunsets’ ? Back in 2018, my husband and I had the opportunity to go…
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