Feb 5, 2020 | Ellen Sauters, Memoir, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
In this response to our December and January prompt, Ellen Sauter discusses the strengthening anniversary of her survival. The piece opens in the midst of violence, but Sauter also shares the questions that came after. Over a process of coming to terms with trauma and...Feb 5, 2020 | All Authors, Laura Bristow, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
In this piece by Laura Bristow, we view a fishing trip as an allegory for an experience with sexual violence. With deft language, clever metaphor, and easy lyricism, she cuts into a relationship and reveals years of abuse the same way one would cut open a fish. It...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...Nov 7, 2019 | C. Christine Fair, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
C. Christine Fair answers our October prompt by expanding upon her poem “When Uncle Art Babysat for Mom”, published in our most recent issue of Awakened Voices. While the original poem discusses the perpetrating figure of Uncle Art in just a few lines,...