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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A Bipolar Self-Portrait: Living My Best Life Instead Of Suffering In Silence

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Schizophrenia

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Sane: A Bipolar Life

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The Grandmaster’s Strategy

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Love: The Promised Land

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When Virgil Was In My Arms I Had Paris In The Springtime On My Mind And All I Wrote Was Poetry

The Bible Says You Are Fearfully And Wonderfully Made. For Khanyile Joseph Mlotshwa. I think of your synergy. How the rain saved me. That...

Poor Things, Please Ask Barbie and Ken What’s Love Got to Do With It

Birds sing, thoughtful and principled. In the greener valleys the foundations of the oceans are found there bold and cheerful and brave. You are...

From My Diary: “Ramaphosa Golden Unicorn To Battered South Africa”

The country has been on tenterhooks for a while but it can be said that racial tensions have been building around the issues of...

The Northern Areas of Gqeberha

The Coloured identity in South Africa has been massacred and annihilated from beginning to end. Gangsterism and the modus operandi of gang warfare has...

Diary entry and a Christmas interlude in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

There is a dwelling that I exist in. This far out between heaven and hell she is, my mother is still beautiful. She was...

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