El shares a searing, powerful personal essay with us.
Favouritism
Jacqueline is back with a new poem titled ‘Favouritism’
Follow your gut feeling
Louise shares their story of surviving.
Void/Your Puppet
Marygrace Wrabel shares two heart-wrenching poems with us.
No escape
Lindsay shares her piece ‘No Escape’
Blood Orange
Lucy Hall shares with us a short story on falling in love after abuse, and the deep feelings that emerge in the face of disappointment.
Of anger. Of fear. Of betrayal. Of clinging. Of longing.
Rutuja Pote shares with us this powerful poem
Circe makes a Sunday roast
Elspeth shares a luminous poem drawing on mythology
The Way of the Stones
Nance shares with us an example of active imagination in her piece The Way of the Stones
Ouroborous
“What I'm really interested in is the idiosyncratic shape of trauma. How memory creates hoops to jump through or the way conversations with friends become choral during the act of sharing. One story is never just that – an isolated incident – but a stone thrown in a pond that ripples outwards. Different shaped stones splash into the same pond, which isn’t a pond, but a pool, then a lake, then a delta that meets the sea.”
Duality
Megan O’Rourke shares her striking poem ‘Duality’
In the Shadow of Trauma
The piece explores the parallels between silencing and disbelieving victims of sexual violence and sick women through Charlie’s own experiences. By jumping back through time to some of her most vivid trauma’s, she reflects on how she was discredited and seen as an unreliable witness to her own illness and assault, contemplating the effect this had and still has on how she interacts with others, particularly within a medical setting.
Survivor No. 000727
Ollie takes us through the story of the aftermath of her abuse, explaining how she “had to adapt and learn how to survive with the vicious ghost of his actions.”
I have nothing to say
Hannah writes of all the things she wants to say - to us, to the men in her life, to her friends, to her partner…
Those words live in my body. Those words live
In their second poem for LCA, Elizabeth George walks us through the intricacies of having to painstakingly explain to someone how they can try make us feel ‘safe’ in a world doused in violence. Ultimately, they bring us to a place where we realise this someone was never ‘safe’ to begin with.
Men That Make Me Feel Fucking Sick
Elizabeth George kicks off our Autumn/Winter series with a searing poem taking down abusive men in their poem “Men That Make Me Feel Fucking Sick”.
The Callus of Coping: Extract from 'The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture' by Catriona Morton
Catriona Morton, founder and editor-in-chief of Life Continues after, shares an extract about coping and resilience from their recent book The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture - available online or from your local bookshop.
We're Hiring!
As we approach the half-way mark for our Autumn/Winter submissions period, we’re looking to hire a temporary freelance editorial and social media assistant.
Life Continues After - Autumn/Winter 2021 series!
Submissions for A/W 2021 are open!
