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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Front Doors That Have Let Poetry Into My Life

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Blame It On Apartheid: The Middle Class, Relational Hunger And The Modern Family Dynamic

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The Novelist’s Burning Sincerity To Bring Words To Life

Here there are no ducks in the park in their own world of silence marking time with their song. I am utterly alone. I...

To the Lighthouse: The Bipolar Experience in Female Writing

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12 Rules For My Life: My Antidote To This Century

Rule 1 Be kind and expect nothing in return. Be the eternal optimist. Rule 2 Have no expectations because that will literally kill your self-esteem. Rule...

Power, War and Critical Thinking

Critical thinking and self-mastery are established roleplayers of the intellectual personality. The journey of life should be to remain self-aware in the event of...

How Dr Jordan B. Peterson Changed My Life

The steak knives were missing. Is there any value in that truth? Give me a little earth. A place in the sun.  A bowl of...

A Ghost Story About An Ancestor From The West Indies

Ella's (the birth name of the Dominican novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys’) ghost sits at the foot of my bed staring at...

Read, Write, Intelligence And How To Think Like A Strategist

When it comes down to it intelligence is all in your mind. It's the blueprint of your childhood, the books that you have read,...

Inhabiting Love: Abu Bakr Solomons- Book Review

An early poem in this collection, titled  "In the morning" (pg.7) suggests that as "morning closes yesterday" that, yes, "it is safe to dream...

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