Abigail George

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Abigail George is an author, a screenwriter and an award winning poet. She is a Pushcart Prize, two-time Best of the Net nominated, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Prize longlisted, Writing Ukraine Prize shortlisted, Identity Theory's Editor's Choice, Ink Sweat Tears Pick of the Month poet/writer, and 2023 Winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She is a two-time recipient of grants from the National Arts Council, one from the Centre of the Book and another from ECPACC. She won a national high school writing competition in her teens. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4, and for AOL.com, the USA Today Network and The Tennessean. Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram @abigailgeorgepoet.

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The Romantic Dream Of Reading Jhumpa Lahiri During Struggle And Depression In Lockdown

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The Pioneer Doris Lessing, The Unaccustomed Earth of Rhodesia

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On the page the novelist-poet questions in Kiran Bhat’s seminal work: We of the Forsaken World

The passionate outsider is people. Male people, female people, the displaced, dispossessed who live within the boundaries and structures of psychological extremes. In a broken...

Revolution from within

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A Love Story, Symbols Of the Artist Dambudzo Marechera as Poet and the African Novelist

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The Anatomy of Loneliness

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Womanhood, Choices, Redemption And Personal Survival In A COVID-19 World

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To plead the case for justice against corruption in South Africa

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To Hope. To The Africa Renaissance, To My Father, To Love In A COVID-19 World

I called this imperfections. I think of my wise father. I think of my struggle with depression as a blank slate. I am strong...

A Prayer To God, All My Notebooks And Kitchen Table Wisdom In A COVID-19 World

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