Germany | Zoё Matt-Williams | 2018 »Other« Hot summer day. Noon. The trees are sweating when my friend tells me he wants to leave England because no other country on earth hates the “other“ as much.
Scotland | Sarah Moles Lyall | 2019 Walls In Berlin I discover borders overcome, overturned, undermined. As the ’89 woodpeckers knew, walls cannot last forever when people strive to be together.
Brazil | Danielly Guzzo De Arauja | 2019 Flower of Tragedy Life awakes A small flower is born Colourless, but it is a flower The first life that arises there It is fragile and sad
Nigeria | Glory Osazuwa | 2019 Silent Tears Each day as evening starts to set The ache builds in my chest I know that I must go to bed And try to get some rest I hug my tear-stained pillow close When no one is around
Nigeria | Glory Osazuwa | 2019 Night Time Night is cold Night is sad for some Night is so dark Night comes and goes Like my love for you
Somalia | Abdikarim Mohamed Ali | 2019 Motivation You are responsible for yourself Whether you laugh or cry No one can know what you feel When you are happy or sad
Ghana | Lydia Afriyie-Kraff | 2019 If I Were a Bird If I were a bird I could fly home now And then What would I do there Nothing
Nigeria | Queen Ufomba | 2018 Future without War In future we will no longer have to fight, because the people before us have already fought so much. In future things will be better than in the past.
United Kingdom | Lara Williams | 2018 Abandoned Port The woman on the matted blanket examines me closely I blush under her gaze Why does my skin have to be so damned white?
Germany | Zoё Matt-Williams | 2018 Familiar Stranger blurry, half-sleep thoughts of a plane landing and the scream of rubber on hot cement streetsides lined in towering McDonalds signs and my grandmother, ant-like between them
Germany | Zoё Matt-Williams | 2018 Checkerboard Kitchen Tiles I grew up in a hallway that scratched my feet but went on and on forever, and a kitchen filled with warm light and Rothko prints and checkerboard tiles and fruit flies.
