About ElodieElodie is an author, poet and artist with a serious case of wanderlust. She is originally from the UK, but has spent time abroad in Europe, the United States and the Bahamas. When not travelling or working on her current projects - including two chapbooks of poetry and a novel-in-flash based on the life of modernist writer and illustrator Djuna Barnes - she can be found with her nose in a book, daydreaming her way back to 1920s Paris.
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From 'The Author'.....
Flames dance beyond the metal guard – a tango, she thinks, sharp and fierce, the rhythm jarring and syncopated. On one of the off-beats her fingers snatch up a page, ball it tightly, and toss it over the guard into the fire. The spitting and crackling that follow hurt her ears, but another page follows. Another. She starts to crawl in the space she’s created, chasing the lines she wants like a wasp chasing sugar, tossing one after the other mercilessly to the flames until she can breathe again, until she’s burned through the tears and has reached the bones, until she has nowhere left to go. Only then does she stop. Love, she knows, always has a price. |
'The Author' was first published in Ellipsis Zine, October 2019. Read the full piece here.
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Recently published work
For a full list of published work, see here.
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Flash fiction:
'Being Your Daughter' in Re-Side Issue 2, October 2019 'Notes on Leaving and Arriving' in Lunate, November 2019 'The Time That Is Given' in Spelk , November 2019 'Sonata' in Nymphs, December 2019 Poetry:
'Fragments of Paris' in Nymphs, September 2019 The Artist' and 'Peaches at Midnight' in The Fruit Tree Joy issue, October 2019 'Keeping Love Safe' in Crêpe & Penn Issue 4, October 2019 |
Non-fiction:
'Creative Intimacies' - exploring the artistic relationship between the modernist author Djuna Barnes and her lover, the silverpoint artist Thelma Wood, and how this influenced Barnes' classic book Nightwood. Published on The Gallyry, August 2019. Natalie Clifford Barney, Kay Boyle and H.D. on Literary Ladies Guide - short biographies of fascinating literary ladies! |
