Jun 6, 2019 | All Authors, All Formats, Cassondra Windwalker, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
As our first contribution to The Nightingale’s monthly prompts, this piece is a wise retelling of “The Girl With the Wooden Helmet,” originally of Japanese origin and based on the English version by Andrew Lang. Windwalker, in her new version, looks...May 23, 2019 | Alana Zucca, All Authors, Nightingale, Review, Uncategorized
This week we bring you a review of the TV Show Broadchurch by one of our editors and current literary interns, Alana Zucca. We hope you enjoy her review of how the show handles sexual assault. Do you agree with her? Let us know in the comments or submit your own...May 11, 2019 | Letter, Megan Otto, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
The Nightingale Editor and Awakened Voices Associate Editor Megan Otto shares reflections on April. Reflections on April: Awareness and poetry by Megan Otto April is commonly known as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but it also happens to be National Poetry Month....Apr 25, 2019 | Barbara Edema, Essay, Memoir, my voice, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Dr. Reverend Barbara Edema has been a frequent contributor to Awakenings publications, and we’re pleased to share more of her encouraging, affirming message. In this piece, Barbara speaks to the ways in which survivors can often find it difficult to share their...Apr 11, 2019 | Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Jorie Rao delves skillfully into the aftermath of an assault. The piece explores the tiny sensory details that form whole memories and how those memories can grow into large parts of ourselves. Here, the smell of soap in a bathroom takes Rao’s readers through a...Feb 14, 2019 | All Authors, Erica Avey, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Uncategorized
How do we participate in society and listen to testimonies when that might bring our own past comes to the surface? Avey guides us through this type of experience in this stream of conscious narrative about watching the testimonies on Sepember 28, 2018, and how...