It’s been an interesting month to say the least. My first COVID infection, which was truly awful, and I’m still weakened by it; a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme and lengthy treatment protocol (more on this soon). But things on the writing front seemed to suddenly open up – I already wrote a blog about my short essay ECLIPSE being published and awarded Runner Up in the WOW! Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Q4 Essay contest, but then I was notified about three further acceptances for publication. One has just gone up in Hobart’s “Fucked Up Modern Love Essay” section titled A MODERN EDUCATION.  It’s actually my first published longish personal essay. As I wrote on Facebook:

I’m a little nervous about posting this essay of mine that just got published as it makes rather clear what an arrogant, judgemental person I was (am?!). I guess I have the excuse that it’s about a time when some of us are – my late teens, hurtling into a terrible time at university. Just a warning…there is some bad language and description of eating disorder….. It’s yet another piece I wrote many years ago and dug up/dusted off and sent out. It got picked up very quickly to my surprise.

Well, I’m curious what anyone thinks reading it as it’s quite a handful to my mind.

I also have a shorter essay coming up soon in MORIA, The National Literary Magazine of Woodbury University, and a weird little piece that will be published early next year in The Selkie, a UK magazine whose mission is to support and publish work by individuals who self-identify as underrepresented in terms of race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender, socio-economic class, neurodivergence, disability, and refugee/immigration status. I’ll keep you posted when they are up!