Jan 22, 2020 | Katherine Page, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Katherine Page revisits The Nightingale with a lovely portrait of a healing through traveling. She writes of finding strength as a survivor when she returns to Chicago, a city full of both positive and negative memories. She’s able to meet these memories, good...Nov 21, 2019 | Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
One trauma folds into another as Meredith Lindgreen explores loss after a miscarriage and an experience with sexual violence. She meditates on a lack of authority or autonomy within her body, and she explores the un-reality that comes from grief in all its different...Nov 7, 2019 | Journal Entry, Katherine Page, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Other, Prose, Uncategorized
In response to our October prompt, Katherine Page returns to a piece of writing that is distinctly connected to her past experience with sexual violence-a journal entry. By focusing on changing just a few words from the entry, she is able to reach back across time to...Aug 1, 2019 | karissa, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Karissa skillfully writes about the experience of living as a silent survivor and, when she felt ready, breaking that silence. With “In November,” she illustrates the process of enduring violence while not feeling able to speak out about the complicated...Jul 18, 2019 | Addison Post, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
This letter by Addison Post, a response to our June prompt, opens in a version of reality that’s difficult to interpret — a dream. Post, in their letter to their assaulter, acknowledges the difficulty of coming to terms with violence when its source is...Apr 11, 2019 | Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Jorie Rao delves skillfully into the aftermath of an assault. The piece explores the tiny sensory details that form whole memories and how those memories can grow into large parts of ourselves. Here, the smell of soap in a bathroom takes Rao’s readers through a...