Jul 23, 2020 | Callen Harty, Essay, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Harty asks the same question again and again, with a new answer each time. Why I didn’t report? “There are too many reasons.” Through writing that is open, gentle, and direct, Harty examines years of his own silence after experiencing childhood...Jun 25, 2020 | Memoir, Nightingale, Scott, Uncategorized
Trauma has left us between times and worlds. In a response to our May prompt, “Other Me’s Request” experiments with time as we follow “Me” and “Other me” through an experience of childhood sexual violence. The two versions of our protagonist represent the common...Jun 11, 2020 | Fiction, Nightingale, RW Anton
A chance encounter leads to a reckoning with the past in “No Seconds” by RW Anton. When someone from years ago happens upon the main character in a hotel lobby, our protagonist is presented with a choice to either allow or deny past pain to reenter their life. Through...Jun 11, 2020 | Emma Dempsey, Nightingale, Review, Uncategorized
As a wonderful Awakenings intern and an astute writer and journalist, Emma Dempsey now contributes a review of Lindy West’s newest essay collection to The Nightingale. Accessible and engaging, Dempsey lends some of the fun that West uses in her essays to her own...May 28, 2020 | Fiction, Jessica Gardiner, Nightingale, Uncategorized
A lack of consent is a betrayal of trust–especially from supposed friends–and it can alter not only one’s relationship with those people, but one’s whole self and life. An event like this leads to irreversible change, but writing about it in a...Apr 30, 2020 | Gillian Marwood, Nightingale, Review, Uncategorized
An intern at Awakenings and an excellent part of the Awakened Voices editorial team, Gillian Marwood now offers their voice to The Nightingale. In a review of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy, Gillian writes with the same care, nuance, and...