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Lockdown Literature

@lockdown_lit

Stay home, read stories and support the Arts

lockdownliterature.com
Joined April 2020
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Lockdown Literature is live! Let's build a library of COVID-19 related poetry, short stories and creative writing. The neverending news cycle is getting hard to follow. lockdownliterature.com
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Ben Stubbs@Stubbs_Ben23 Apr 2020
Lovely to speak with @PatsKarvelas on 'travelling in isolation' for the #DrawingRoom, the history of room travel and what we can do at the moment to consider travel more imaginatively. @newsouthbook @UniversitySA abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
Travelling in isolation - ABC listen

Travelling in isolation - ABC listen

If lockdown has meant your holidays plans have been cancelled, you could consider travelling in your room, backyard or street.

abc.net.au
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New on Lockdown Literature - @shaunbusuttil with a sobering view of life in enforced quarantine lockdownliterature.com/stori…
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Calling for entries! We're looking for original pieces of writing, <500 words on the theme 'The Amazing Lockdown'. The judges? Cr Margot Smith (@CrMargotSCS) & authors @marksmith0257 & @jayne_tuttle. More: grlc.vic.gov.au/news/amazing… The prize? $100 voucher for @bookshopqcliff
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Brigid Delaney@BrigidWD2 May 2020
yesterday;s diary After the restlessness finally there's stillness: my last stage of coronavirus isolation | Brigid Delaney theguardian.com/commentisfre…

After the restlessness finally there's stillness: my last stage of coronavirus isolation | Brigid...

I’ve been to monasteries and religious retreats seeking calmness. The pandemic is giving me the same experience at home

theguardian.com
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"My friends - I don’t want to see their faces in too few pixels Beauty in shards Laughs like broken hearts" lockdownliterature.com/stori…
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"Separation by degrees and decrees. To save lives, to spare lives..." lockdownliterature.com/stori…
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Great time to try: travel writing from the home theconversation.com/great-ti… via @ConversationEDU
Great time to try: travel writing from the home

Great time to try: travel writing from the home

In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was imprisoned in his house for six weeks, and he took to travel writing about his bedroom. Is this the new coronavirus travel writing?

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