INSIDE STORIES has been created as a platform for writers and photographers to share their experience of life in lock-down during the Coronavirus Pandemic. 

Each week Maggie and Joel will choose 5 short stories or personal essays and 5 photographs and will work online with each of these contributors, making suggestions for revision and refinement.  Additionally, each week, 1 writer and 1 photographer will be chosen to participate in an online workshop with Maggie and Joel in order to show how the creative process works. At the end of this period 25 stories/essays and 25 photographs will be chosen by a panel of judges for publication in a book entitled: INSIDE STORIES: Life In The Pandemic. The book will be published by Halcyon Editions with proceeds, after expenses, to be donated.

Whether you are living alone, with a partner, with family members or a pet, in one room, or an apartment, or a house, each of you is experiencing life in ways that are both unique and universal.  We believe that sharing these experiences is an important way of documenting this unprecedented, global event. This project is open to everyone.

Remember:  we are not aiming for perfection.  Creativity, like life, is a work in progress.  Everyone has a voice, everyone has a story, everyone has a vision. We may be in lockdown, but our minds are expansive. So let’s travel together!

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