Wild Children
In Kilfinane we were known as wild children. And maybe we really were. What should have been another summer camping trip turned into something completely different. On the first night after arriving in Ireland my Continue Reading...
Anita Salemink is an artist and a writer based in Arnhem in the Netherlands.
She published a short non-fiction piece in Silver Apples literary magazine, chronicling the first few weeks as an immigrant after she and her family moved to Ireland when she was a child in the 1970s. She has been short-listed with her book in Mslexia’s Novella prize and is currently working on a novel set in WWII.
In her free time, she loves to walk through forests during a rainstorm and her favourite drink is tea – Earl Grey with a slice of lemon and a ginger biscuit.
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In Kilfinane we were known as wild children. And maybe we really were. What should have been another summer camping trip turned into something completely different. On the first night after arriving in Ireland my Continue Reading...
I’m not here. Well, to them, I’m not. And even that isn’t true. I’m here all right, there on the wall; my face contorted, a close-up made the moment he pierced the artery in my Continue Reading...
When I was six, my parents told me we were going on a holiday to meet my mother’s parents, my Opa and Oma Australia, who lived on the other side of the world. ‘Where it Continue Reading...