Alex Kukulina

Kratovo Village (nr Moscow)

“As long as I do not get out of the house, I am safe. My world is inside the house and it will not be connected to the messed up world outside, if I do not let it” – I thought…

Joseph Burton

Folkestone, Kent

…we were finally waking up from the dream of modernity – that fanciful belief which insisted we were safe from primitive foes…

Maisie Beckett

South Wales

…Even in the midst of a pandemic, I was able to give myself the freedom to explore and expand myself through my writing…

Meg Lintern

My grandparents house in France, and my home in England

…feelings of joy at the extended time with the people I loved, feelings of frustration with the vast quantity of unknowns that had been thrust into my previously predictable life, and feelings of bewilderment at the rapidly changing world around me…

Emi Combret

Toulouse, SW France

…the year 2020 was terrible, and it actually makes me laugh. Not because it’s amusing (well, it is in a way), but because I was wondering how it would be taught to children in a few years…

Shelby Cooke

Delaware, USA

…it provided me with a means of examining my emotions…allowed me to process what seemed completely unattainable at the time, reflecting back on a time that felt so unreal and like an out-of-the body experience…

Sally Piper

Littlehampton, south coast of England

…it became a way of escaping the loneliness of isolating, whilst still thinking about what a historically significant period of time we are living through…

Elise Swain

On the side of Black Mountain, Belfast

…Writing made me feel connected to many people…and having something to do that was constructive made me feel like I had a purpose…

Ide Crawford

Macclesfield

…sometimes I wonder whether a collective attempt to imagine what we have never yet experienced would help us deal with events like this on a national level…

Krishna Gowda

Liverpool

…writing about the unusual times we were living through felt important as it served as a timely reminder of how crucial gratitude is for the common things, previously taken for granted, like personal freedom…

Jonathan Clark

Manchester

…we were coming out of the Spring lockdown…we as people create myths and legends out of the past…

Vaneeza Butt

London

…during pandemic I finally had my “coming of age” moment, and I remember thinking, “Wow, finally.” To zoom out and observe the world comprehensively during Times Shifting, is something I’ll revisit and dwell on forever…

Molly-Rose Medhurst

Ramsgate, Kent

It was really important for me to write…I could process the fear I held about the BLM protests, the fear of worldwide trauma, government neglect and insufficient healthcare provisions, along with my greatest fear: death. It was great to put that somewhere

Rosi Byard-Jones

Nagoya, Japan and back home in England

…I have recently been thinking about how our perception of the linear passing of time has been affected by our immersion in the here and now…I wanted to explore how these times are ultimately a passing moment in the cyclical motions of nature…