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 Imagined Journals of Sylvia Plath

The page frees me in a sense, in ways I cannot describe. I write and that is my life. I am a mother and...

Psychosis

There is a torment in waiting for the psychosis to break. You can never heal completely from that wreck. I...

The Woman With Two Shadows

To the scenic world at large that are still suffering in silence, I say, break the silence; add a visible, outspoken voice. There are...

A Bipolar Self-Portrait

The reason I am writing this is to help someone who is in the same situation where I found myself eighteen years ago, so...

In Praise of the Sleeping Woman as a Prophet -Part 2

Can we take violence from the magical design in the beauty of rain? The violence that we find within ourselves, on...

Blood Knot: Sleeping Woman as a Prophet, Part 1

I will not smile because that is not what attracts you to me. Instead it is fire. Instead it is sitting in the school...

A Scrapbook of Vignettes: Africa Where Art Thou

It is very hard to fall in love with something and give yourself over to it completely. Why do I write? I pay attention...

Illusion Written on the Body: Manic Depression

There is nothing lost in translation when coming home to the mock wife playing house, moving furniture around just for the sake of it....

Hey, Lolita Hey

We hope for a cultural, for a spiritual awakening amongst the Coloured race, the mulatto. They devote themselves not to the pursuit of family...

The Culture Shock of War and Peace

As waves steeped in the history of riverbeds break gently against the shoreline so does the memory of war. Flummoxed soldiers march on towards...

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