Sep 17, 2020 | Jennifer Shneiderman, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Our earliest discoveries of violence often hold a unique gravity in our memories. In this burst of awareness, Shneiderman comes face to face with the vast potential of a man’s abuse of power over herself as a young girl. With rich details and characterization of...Sep 3, 2020 | Interview, Megan Otto, Meggie Royer, Nightingale, Uncategorized
As a digital literary magazine with a focus on art by and for survivors of sexual violence, Persephone’s Daughters is like a cousin to Awakened Voices and The Nightingale. Meggie Royer, an author recently published on The Nightingale with her prose piece “Afterwards,...Aug 20, 2020 | Illianna Martinez, Memoir, Nightingale, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
The strength and earnestness with which Martinez describes her incomplete memories serve to prove that strong feelings are just as powerful as concrete details. Feelings are true, they leave lasting effects on one’s life, and this alone makes them important. Yet...Aug 6, 2020 | Essay, Meggie Royer, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In an ongoing emotional waterfall, Meggie Royer responds to sexual violence with a stream of consciousness. She drops us into the days after surviving intimate partner sexual violence and introduces us to the endless and overwhelming list of small things that need to...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...
