My Plans for #ReadDiverse2016

Posted on January 1, 2016 by naomifrisby

I don’t do New Year resolutions. I learnt some years ago that those vague statements – I’m going to do more exercise/eat less/learn a language – don’t last beyond mid-January. But goals do, at least specific ones you can work towards and extend, if necessary, or not beat yourself up about if you don’t quite fulfil them do.

Last year, I set a goal to read more books by women of colour. I joined Eva Stalker’s #TBR20 project with the caveat that I’d continue to read review copies I was sent as well. I still haven’t completed all the reviews of those books yet but the main effect it had was I paid attention to what I was reading, specifically who the writer was. In 2014 10% of my reading was by writers of colour, in 2015, it was 32%. The unintended consequence of this, however, is that the number of books I read by writers from LGBTQIA communities plummeted from 6% to 0.5% and books in translation from 11% to 0.6%. (The latter was partly a consequence of me not really taking part in #WITMonth due to personal circumstances but still, it’s poor.)

The plan for this year then: more reviews of books by women of colour; more reviews of books by women who identify as LGBT; a proper focus on women in translation in August.

I’m aiming for 50% of my reviews to be of books by women of colour. I’ve changed the focus from the percentage I’m reading with the intention of even coverage on here. What I noticed last year was that although I was reading books from my #TBR20 stack, when I got back to reading and reviewing after my break in the summer, I was focusing on books by white women, the ‘big titles’. As a consequence, I have a stack of review copies by women of colour. These are now at the top of the pile.

I’ve also created a new #TBR20 pile focusing on writers from the LGBT communities. And here they are…

Half of the books (those on the left, except Anaïs Nin who appears to be in the wrong pile) are by women of colour. I used several sources to help me compile the list: More than 50 books by Queer People of Color by zarahwithaz; 10 Novels & Memoirs By and About Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women on Autostraddle;100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost also on Autostraddle, and the Wikipedia list of LGBT Writers.

Elsewhere, you might have seen on social media that Media Diversified have created Bare Lit Festival (@BareLit). ‘A literary festival focused entirely on writers of colour’, which will run from the 26^th – 28^th February 2016.

We want to counteract the trend of equating literary merit with whiteness by highlighting the amazing variety of work currently being produced by BAME writers. That’s why we’ve put together an exciting programme of performances, panels and conversations — such as ‘Second-Generation Poets in Exile’, ‘What Does Liberation in Literature Look Like?, Sci Fi vs. Afrofuturism’ and much more.

I’ve already bought my weekend pass and you can support the festival by buying passes or single event tickets now and helping them to raise the cost of running the event. Find out more on their Indiegogo page.

Mention of Media Diversified brings me to this interesting piece, posted a couple of days ago: Decolonise, not Diversify by Kavita Bhanot. I agree with everything she says.

Speaking only for myself, I didn’t get involved with #diversedecember because I thought it would change the world but I did hope it might lead some people to question their world view or the view the white-dominated world imposes upon us.

During December, Salena Godden (@salenagodden) posted a video of her performing her new poem ‘I Count’. ‘I have become a woman that counts…’ she begins. Yep. I became a woman that counts when I started this blog. I don’t think it’s a solution and it’s certainly not going to bring about one on its own, but while ever white/male/hetero/cis domination exists, I’ll count. For me, #ReadDiverse2016 (@ReadDiverse2016) is about hoping you’ll join in that count too.

In the Media: 25th January & 1st February 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by naomifrisby

In the media is a weekly round-up of features written by, about or containing female writers that have appeared during the previous week and I think are insightful, interesting and/or thought provoking. Linking to them is not necessarily a sign that I agree with everything that’s said but it’s definitely an indication that they’ve made me think. Also, just a note to make it clear that I’m using the term ‘media’ to include social media, so links to blog posts as well as traditional media are likely.

Thanks to everyone who said such lovely things last week after I lost the In the Media post and to everyone who offered suggestions to stop it happening again. I think I have a solution and it seems to have worked well this week.

The morning after last week’s last minute loss, I realised that all was not entirely lost; all the articles I’d linked to that hadn’t saved were in my laptop history, so I recovered the remainder of last week’s post (apologies if you received an email with a half-done post in it, it posted when I retrieved it) and relinked all the articles, then added this weeks. The result of that is this bumper issue. Enjoy!

This week saw the death of Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds, as well as 23 other books, and a neuroscientist. Steve Dow remembers her in The Guardian; Alison Flood gave her tribute with ‘Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds helped me get over heartbreak‘ also in The Guardian, and in response to that obituary (I’m not linking to it) Rebecca Shaw wrote ‘We’ll celebrate a woman for anything, as long as it’s not her talent‘ in The Guardian while Liz Kearney responded with ‘You may be a best-selling writer, but never forget that you’re still fat and ugly‘ in The Irish Independent.

It’s been a fortnight filled with awards. Last week, Claudia Rankine became the first person ever to be nominated for two National Critics Circle Awards in the poetry and criticism categories; her editor tells The Washington post why she’s a ‘genius’ and Jonathon Sturgeon tells us why the double nomination is ‘the correct decision’ on Flavorwire; While Jhumpa Lahiri won the DSC Prize. Here’s ‘Six things you should know about Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland’ on Scroll.in

This week, it’s been the turn of the Costa Awards. Helen Macdonald won the overall award for the fantastic H is for Hawk. Here’s an interview she gave to The Times last week; you can watch her talking about the book here; you can listen to an audio excerpt and read her piece ‘On Ringing Wild Goshawks’ on Vintage Books, and discover the six books that made her in The Guardian. You can also watch the short films made of the other finalists: Emma Healey; Kate Saunders; Ali Smith. Zoe Gilbert won the Short Story Award with Fishskin, Hareskin. With Joanne Meek, Lucy Ribchester, Jane Healey and Paula Cunningham also shortlisted. You can read all the shortlisted stories here (scroll to the bottom of the page).

Other exciting news for female writers is the launch of #ReviewWomen2015, following the success of the #ReadWomen2014 campaign. Hannah Beckerman explains why she wants more books by female writers, especially commercial fiction, to be reviewed in the broadsheets in the Huffington Post. Anne Enright became the first Laureate for Irish Fiction in a unanimous decision and in China came the discovery of a new poet, ‘dubbed China’s Emily Dickinson‘, Want China Times reports on Yu Xihua.

There’s been a wave of feminist articles this fortnight, partly thanks to The Sun newspaper appearing to stop publishing pictures of topless women on p3 and then declaring it a joke by the middle of the week. Sarah Ditum wrote, ‘The “return” of Page 3: the Sun revels in the chance to make women with opinions look stupid‘ in the New Statesman; Marina Hyde responded with, ‘No more t*ts in the Sun – a campaign we can all get behind‘ in The Guardian. Elsewhere, Sophie Heawood wrote, ‘If Björk can’t stop a man stealing the limelight, what hope is there for the rest of us?‘ in The Guardian; Eleanor Catton wrote a statement on her website following a media furore in New Zealand about comments she made about the government; Louise O’Neill related, ‘My journey to feminism‘ in The Guardian; Elisabeth Camp asked ‘Should I let my daughter wear pink?‘ in Aeon; Jami Attenberg recounted her time passing as a man, ‘Track Changes‘ in The New York Times; Bayan Perazzo wrote ‘The Burden of Being Female in Saudi Arabia‘ on Muftah; Rose George declared, ‘My period may hurt: but not talking about menstruation hurts more‘ in The Guardian; Arabelle Sicadi wrote, ‘A Bridge Between Love And Lipstick: Queering the beauty industry‘ on Buzzfeed; Jeanne de Montbaston responded to an Alison Wolf article (link in the piece) with ‘What the Hell kinds of Feminists are you Reading, Alison Wolf‘ on Reading Medieval Books; Lucy Magan says, ‘Let’s Silence the Voice That Tells Us We Can’t‘ in Stylist; Marina Sofia looked at the new Barbie Princess Power on her blog; Rebecca Carroll wrote, ‘I was six when a man first touched me. I didn’t speak up until I was an adult‘ in The Guardian; Jia Tolentino wrote, ‘Rush After ‘A Rape On Campus’: A UVA Alum Goes Back to Rugby Road‘ on Jezebel; Homa Mojtabai listed ‘Reasons You Were Not Promoted That Are Totally Unrelated to Gender‘ on McSweeney’s; C M Meadows-Haworth, ‘Reading Audre Lorde Is Changing My Life‘ on A Room of Our Own; Chika Unigwe wrote, ‘Why Nigeria is failing its citizens over Boko Haram attacks‘ in Litro; Maddie Crum told us ‘Why Virginia Woolf Should Be Your Feminist Role Model‘ on Huffington Post; Brandi Bailey selected ‘The Best Feminist Picture Books‘ on Book Riot, Monique Wilson said, ‘Critics of the Vagina Monologues must acknowledge its transformative powers‘ in The Guardian, Alison Flood told us ‘Why I hate the Little Miss books‘ in The Guardian, Sarah Ditum also told us, ‘I ain’t afraid of no girls: why the all-female Ghostbusters will be good for Hollywood‘ in the New Statesman; Max Cairnduff wrote, ‘Looking back on #readwomen2014 and my favourite reads of the year‘ on his blog; Hannah Renowden shares, ‘2015 – When I got angered by a reading list so read it. Also, crochet.‘ on her blog, and Isabel Rogers read and took down Mike Buchanan’s Justice for Men and Boys (and the women who love them) Party Election Manifesto on her blog.

And a number about class following James Blunt’s open letter to Chris Bryant. Sarah Perry responded with, ‘James Blunt has misunderstood the relationship between privilege and success‘ in The Independent and Suzanne Moore with, ‘What James Blunt doesn’t understand about the politics of envy‘ in The Guardian. Other issues surrounding class were covered by Lisa McKenzie, ‘The estate we’re in: how working class people became the ‘problem’‘ in The Guardian; Lucy Mangan, ‘If you don’t understand how people fall into poverty, you’re probably a sociopath‘ also in The Guardian; Nicola Morgan asked, ‘Why fund libraries when it’s all online?‘ on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure; Harriet Williamson said, ‘Every time I visit the job centre, the staff treat me like a subhuman‘ in the New Statesman; Grace Dent said, ‘When rents are so high that you have to share a bed with a stranger, surely the revolution can’t be far off‘ in The Independent, and Kathryn Hughes wrote, ‘Yes, Kirstie Allsopp, littering’s bad. But then so is self-righteousness‘ in The Guardian

The best of the rest articles/essays:

Zoe Williams, ‘Wolf Hall: A Lesson in the triumph of low birth over hierarchy‘ in The Guardian
Rachel Cooke, ‘Oscars 2015: All about Eve? In today’s films, it’s more like All About Adam‘ in The Guardian
Kim Kankiewicz, ‘The Watcher and the Watched‘ in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Beluah Maud Devaney, ‘Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully‘ in The Guardian
Tiffany Midge, ‘Part One: Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series‘ in The Butter
Rene Steinke celebrates the profound influence of independent bookstores on Read Her Like an Open Book
Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature‘ on Berfrois
Judith Lennox, ‘Loneliness and the Long-Distant Granparent‘ in The Guardian
Laura Sook Duncombe, ‘Literary Ladies Cage Fight: Clash of the Titans‘ in The Butter
Sasha Dugdale, ‘The Necessity of Translation‘ on Commonwealth Writers
Priscilla Ward, ‘I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along with white people‘ on Salon
Susanna Basso (tr. Mati Colarossi), ‘On translation‘ on Parallel Texts
Elizabeth Haynes, ‘Closer Than You Think‘ on her blog
Diane Mehta, “And She Went On Her Way Rejoicing” (On Muriel Spark) on The Rumpus
Leesa Cross-Smith, ‘Anxiety & Comfort‘ on Real Pants
Brittany Wilmes, ‘Growing Up‘ in The Butter
Rosie Gray, ‘France’s Far-Right Party Seizes the Moment – And the Youth‘ on Buzzfeed
Dan Piepenbring, ‘A Dissatisfaction with Life‘ (on Patricia Highsmith) in The Paris Review
Trisha Ready, ‘How Listening to Music and Fighting with Susan Sontag Helped Me Cope with Chemo‘ on The Stranger
Dinah Jeffries, ‘The Hidden Psychology of a Writer‘ on her blog
Eva Wiseman, ‘Questions to Make You Fall in Love‘ in The Guardian
Nina Martyris, ‘Auden, Rabelais, and “Charlie Hebdo” in The Los Angeles Review of Books
Zoe Heller, ‘Rape on the Campus‘ in The New York Review of Books
Amanda Foreman, ‘Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium‘ in Smithsonian
Sophie Heawood, ‘A little bit of hatred can take you a long way‘ in The Guardian
Kat Brown, ‘Depression made me feel ‘appalling — I couldn’t bear my own company’ in The Times
Catherine Taylor on Elena Ferrante on Open Book
Suzanne Moore, ‘Eventually, I took a driving test. But Mister Much didn’t think much of my motoring skills‘ in the New Statesman
Paula McLain, ‘I Was Always, Always Looking for More‘ in Good Housekeeping
Virginia Woolf on E.M. Forster in Berfrois
Ijeoma Oluo, ‘I understand why people believe sexual predators before victims. I did‘ in The Guardian
Sybil Baker, ‘The History of the Wanderer‘ in The Critical Flame
Lauren Westerfeld, ‘Mother Maps‘ on The Butter
Ruth Graham, ‘Chandler Bing Is the Worst Thing About Watching Friends in 2015‘ on Slate
Anne Helen Peterson, ‘The Trouble with “It Girls”‘ on Buzzfeed

Shelley Harris, ‘Writing a hero from the inside‘ on Isobel Costello’s Literary Sofa
Shruti Ravindran, ‘A circus of the senses‘ in Aeon
Sadie Stein, ‘More things in heaven and earth‘ in The Paris Review
Tracy Borman, ‘Big bad Wolf: Why have we fallen for Thomas Cromwell?‘ on BBC Arts
Rene Denfeld, ‘The Other Side of Loss‘ on The Manifest-Station
Soo Na Pak, ‘Woman‘ in The Butter
Jonathan Gibbs, ‘The Art of the Novella challenge 11: The Awakening‘ on Melville House
E.B. Bartels, ‘Freedom, My Dear‘ in The Butter
Evan McMurry, ‘The stunning weirdness of Ayn Rand: Why her newfound popularity makes no sense‘ on Salon
Susanna Daniel, ‘What took you so long? The quiet hell of 10 years of novel writing‘ on Slate
Randon Billings Noble, ‘The Heart as a Torn Muscle‘ in Brevity
Heather Sellers, ‘Fun for Everyone Involved‘ in Brevity
Jennifer Sinor, ‘One Hundred Days in India‘ in Brevity
Fleda Brown, ‘Home Bodily Repair Kit‘ in Brevity
Jenny Boully, ‘I Remain Very Sorry For What I Did to the Little Black Kitten‘ in Brevity
Sarah Freligh, ‘Lessons of the Body‘ in Brevity
Anna Journey, ‘For Great-Aunt Jeannette, Who Donated Her Body to Science‘ in Brevity
Anna B. Sutton, ‘Carolina/Tennessee‘ in Brevity
Ginny MacDonald, ‘Go, Jim Dandy‘ in Brevity
Jen Palmares Meadows, ‘Imprint‘ in Brevity
Lisa Nikolidakis, ‘Landlines‘ in Brevity
Margo Barnes, ‘Falling‘ in Brevity
Lessa Cross-Smith, ‘Other Boys & High School Hearts‘ on Real Pants
Elisa Gabbert, ‘Some Notes on Packing‘ on Real Pants
Stassa Edwards, ‘From Aesop to doge‘ in Aeon
Sadie Stein, ‘Common Colds‘ in The Paris Review
Samantha Lyon, ‘Gender Inequality in the World of Children’s Books‘ on The Inflectionist
Alex Clark, ‘TV books programmes: if nobody watches them, make better ones‘ in The Guardian
Jonathan Diaz, ‘Hello, Cruel World: Silvina Ocampo Is Argentina’s Literary Middle Child‘ on Flavorwire
S.L. Huang, ‘On the Subject of Unlikeable Woman Protagonists‘ on Chuck Wendig’s blog
Gemma Todd, ‘The Life of a Mobile Librarian‘ on the Picador Blog
Wiam El-Tamami, ‘Cairo: September 2014‘ in Granta
Elizabeth Kolbert, ‘Such a Stoic‘ in The New Yorker
Dan Piepenbring, ‘Speaking Bluntly‘ (A letter from Colette) in The Paris Review
Jill Dawson ‘The Life You Save May be Your Very Own‘ on Fat Is a Feminist Issue on Platform 505
Jessica Levine, ‘On Writing About Sex: Is It Necessary‘ on Read Her Like an Open Book

Lizzy Kremer, ‘The Stories Writers Tell‘ on her blog
Suzanne Moore, ‘Single parents don’t need anonymous generosity but public respect‘ in The Guardian
Corrine Duyvis, ‘Why Strong Characters Aren’t All That‘ on For Books’ Sake
Ann Bauer, ‘“Sponsored” by my husband: Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from‘ on Salon
Becca Rose, ‘The Third Generation‘ in The Butter
Lydia Kiesling, ‘I Would Do This for You: The Narrative Possibilities of Leaked Emails‘ on The Millions
Sarah Hollowell, ‘This is an Essay About a Fat Woman Being Loved and Getting Laid‘ in The Butter
Margo Rabb, ‘In My Cat’s Death, a Human Comfort‘ in The New York Times
Antonia Honeywell, ‘The Book That Changed My Life‘ on Novelicious
Christopher Fowler, ‘Invisible ink no 259: Female short story writers‘ in The Independent
Nicole Wolverton, ‘Mourning New York: Cari Luna and The Revolution of Every Day‘ on Bloom
Rachel Aviv, ‘Your Son Is Deceased‘ in The New Yorker
Vanessa Curtis, ‘On the 30,000 lost Jews of Riga‘ in The Guardian
Nicolette Jones, ‘The renaissance of Beatrix Potter’s great rival‘ in The Telegraph
Hermione Lee, ‘Alice Munroe’s Magic‘ in The New York Review of Books
Helen Oyeyemi, ‘Born Out of Rapt Distraction: On Silvina Ocampo’s “Thus Were Their Faces”‘ on The Millions
Roxane Gay, ‘Living with my parents in Florida, it’s difficult to feel like an adult‘ in The Guardian
Samantha Tucker, ‘Kitchen Remodel‘ in Guernica
Lucy Mangan, ‘There Are No Life Hacks for Love‘ in Stylist
Claudia Smith, ‘Basic. Bitch‘ in The Butter
Pallavi Aiyar, ‘The Foreign Correspondent‘ in Granta
Sara Majka, ‘Cities I’ve Never Lived In‘ in Guernica
Sara Gerard, ‘On Helen Keller Really Lived and The Wallcreeper:
How Should a Woman Behave?‘ in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Dana Stevens, ‘Tumbling into the Screen‘ on Slate
Emily Gould, ‘How Being Pregnant Ruined Shopping For Me‘ on Fast Company
Vanessa M. Gezari, ‘Why it pays to work the fringes‘ on Lynsey Addario in the Columbia Journalism Review
Roger Tagholm, ‘Why “Gone Girl?” Why Not “Gone Woman?”‘ on Publishing Perspectives
Charlotte Higgins, ‘Leonora Carrington: wild at heart‘ in The Guardian
Beth Miller, ‘There’s a difference in living and living well‘ on her blog
Joan Didion, ‘on Writing and Revising‘ on The New York Public Library Podcast
Helen Brocklebank, ‘The Books that Built Samantha Ellis‘ on Mrs Trefusis Takes a Taxi
Kavita Bhanot, ‘Too Asian, Not Asian Enough‘ on Media Diversified
Angela Köckritz, ‘They Have Miao‘ on Zeit Online
Sarah B. Boyle, ‘Reports from the Field: A Textbook Case of Diversity: How Educational Publishing Skims the Surface‘ on VIDA
Anna Maxymiw, ‘Making Gains‘ in Masionneuve
Megan Mayhew Bergman, ‘Bring In the Old: The Writer as Collector‘ on Ploughshare
Maya Jaggi, ‘Literature has Liberated Africa’s Authors‘ in The Financial Times

The interviews:

Katie Coyle on Flavorwire
Eula Bliss on Salon
Mary Gaitskill in BOMB Magazine
Vanessa Lafaye on Bookaholic Confessions
Gurinder Chadha in The Guardian
Kate Bernheimer on The Brooklyn Rail
Mary Kay Zuravleff on Fiction Writers Review
Paula Hawkins on Writer’s Bone and in The New York Times
Sarah Gerard in Interview Magazine and in Vice
Danielle Steele in T Magazine
Chelsea Hodson and Juliet Escoria on Emily Books
Tiphanie Yanique on Publishers Weekly
Emma Hooper on Open Book
Samantha Harvey on Salon
Janet Mock on Queer of Gender and Bitch Media
Peyton Marshall on Annethology
Molly Peacock on Maisonneuve
Miranda July on Longreads and The Millions and in The Cut
Polly Coles and Liz Jensen on Something Rhymed
Cari Luna on Bloom
Shelley Harris on Novelicious
Muriel Spark on Toby Litt’s blog twice
Joyce Carol Oates in The Independent
Kelly Link in The New York Times
Jenny Ashcroft on Rebecca Mascull’s blog
Jennifer Niven in The Guardian
Wendy Ortiz in Mutha Magazine
Dylan Landis on Electric Literature
Mindy Kaling in Stylist
Lena Dunham in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Celeste Ng on Radio Gorgeous and Novelicious
Lucy Ribchester, Elisabeth Gifford and Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Book Talk
Frances Vick in Shiny New Books
Sophia Tobin in Shiny New Books
Adèle Geras in Shiny New Books
Lynn Sloan on Bloom
Lynne Segal in The Observer

If you want some fiction/poetry to read:

‘Olikoye‘ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Matter
‘Idaho‘ by Isabel Rogers on her blog
‘Hummers‘ by Amy Gottfried in Blunderbuss
‘The Garden Party‘ by Katherine Mansfield on The Centre for Fiction
‘Body as Device‘ by Brandi Wells in The Butter
‘Ellen Says No‘ by Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart in The Butter
An extract from The Serpent Papers by Jessica Cornwell
Five stories from Carys Bray’s Sweet Home on BBC Radio 4 Extra
‘Blood and Water‘ by Elizabeth Muchemwa on Brittle Paper
‘Alt Vices‘ by Michelle Dove in Guernica
‘Alice‘ by Elizabeth Harrower in The New Yorker and she discusses the story here
‘steph n deaf‘ by Jay Merrill in 3:am magazine
An extract from The Undertaking by Audrey Magee in the Irish Times
‘Performance Art‘ by Manjula Padmanabhan in Granta
An excerpt from Principles of Navigation by Lynn Sloan on Bloom
‘Miss Havisham’s Disability Application Is Denied‘ by Olga Oksman on McSweeney’s
Three Poems by Yvonne Green on And Other Poems
‘The Moth Mother‘ by Joanne Harris on her blog
An extract from Campari for Breakfast by Sara Crowe on Novel Kicks
‘For the Love of Squirrels‘ by Claire Fuller on her blog
‘Tell Us a Story, Grandma‘ by Natalie Wise in The New Yorker
‘The Secret Lives of Shoes‘ by Atoke on Brittle Paper
‘t.w. gore‘ by Helen McClory on Litro
‘My Son Is a Good Man‘ by Rosanna Boscawen on Litro
‘And So It Begins‘ by Lara Williams on Litro
‘An Unsolved Mystery Of Quantum Mechanics‘ by Beatrice Garland on Visual Verse
‘Heel Drags‘ by Susan Gray on Visual Verse
‘Please Come‘ by Jennifer Falkner on Visual Verse
‘The Last Leg‘ by Hazel Mason on Visual Verse
‘Crossing the Line‘ by Avalina Kreska on Visual Verse
‘Stuck‘ by Samantha Newbury on Visual Verse
‘In a Rush‘ by Catherine Lødøen on Visual Verse
‘Sketch of an Abandoned Journey‘ by Linda Ashok on Visual Verse
‘Parallels of Time‘ by Pauline Suett Barbieri on Visual Verse
‘Poem for Isaac‘ by Freya Dean on Visual Verse
‘Towards the Penal Colony‘ by Corrine Lawrence on Visual Verse
‘Limbs Anonymous‘ by Judith A. Daniel on Visual Verse
‘The Rainforest‘ by Olive Lowena on Visual Verse
‘Coney Island Cap‘ by Jennifer Albon Burns on Visual Verse
‘What Happened in the Hold‘ by Lindsey Grundnicki on Visual Verse
‘Over the Limit‘ by Sue Ellis on Visual Verse
‘Moonlit Road‘ by Sarah Doughty on Visual Verse
‘Colgate‘ by Isadora Vibes on Visual Verse
‘Circles and Lines‘ by Sarah Salway on Visual Verse
‘Crossing the Line‘ by Birgita Orel on Visual Verse
‘Yarn‘ by Shirley Anne Cook on Visual Verse
‘Bad Habit‘ by Wendy Choi on Visual Verse
‘Arrival‘ by Georgina Joss on Visual Verse
‘No Overtaking‘ by Sally Hepplewhite on Visual Verse
‘Blinders‘ by Grace Black on Visual Verse
‘Found‘ by Luciana Francis on Visual Verse
‘Gateway‘ by Olivia Sprinkled on Visual Verse
‘Return‘ by Elizabeth Rogers on Visual Verse
‘Love‘ by Jennifer Harvey on Visual Verse
‘Shadows of the Showgirl‘ by Clare Archibald on Visual Verse
Three Stories by Chiara Barzini in BOMB Magazine