Library Spotlight: "silences" and "Little Leaves"
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The Switch-Lit Library is our official collection of collaborative prose and poetry written by Switch-Lit writers like you from around the world and various walks of life.
Some are written by those who already know one another. Others are written by total strangers who met for the first time via Subrosa. All of them play out the creative possibilities of collaborative storytelling as a literary supergenre worth advancing in this age of social media and artificial intelligence.
So open your experimental mind and enjoy the dreamlike connections throughout these two (2) featured stories: “silences” 🤫 and “Little Leaves” 🌿.
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About the writers:
Luna Balu is a millennial age male poet, visual artist, and designer based in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Hannah is a millennial age female writer and educator based in Berlin, Germany.
The writers met for the first time via Subrosa 🌹
About the story:
In the stillness of a kitchen filled with memories and unspoken words, two family members navigate the delicate space between love and loss, where silence becomes both a shield and a barrier, boldly expressed in both poetic verse and literary prose forms.
Story settings:
3 chapters per writer • 100 word limit per chapter • 3 days per turn
Story prompt:
“He dropped the dehydrated flower into a cup of boiling water and waited.”
(from December 2023: “Tea”)
Publisher notes:
An inspiring example of two writers boldly sticking to their own preferred forms, poetic verse and literary prose in this case, and yet still able to arrive at an artfully connected and cohesive hybrid work – the prose poem.
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About the writers:
Alyssa T is a Gen Z age female writer and student based in London, Canada.
Emily Churchill is a millennial age female writer and librarian based in London, Canada.
The writers first met via the youth mentoring program Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada
About the story:
Cursed by a ghostly encounter on a train, a young woman races against time as she transforms into a monstrous anomaly, desperately searching for a cure hidden in the forested cabin of her past.
Story settings:
10 chapters per writer • 500 word limit per chapter • 30 days per turn
Publisher notes:
A youthful, adventurous story by writers of different generations, each taking an impressive ten (10) turns, that will make adult readers feel like a teen again (and maybe their skin crawl too).
Every Switch-Lit story moves our mission forward: to manifest the collective imagination of an increasingly diverse generation of writers and storytellers around the world through the connective power of collaborative prose and poetry.
How far and wide can two writers take a story worth sharing, and with whom? Slowly and steadily, where might it take all of us in the end? 🏕️ 🏜️ 🐢
Until then, we look forward to reading and sharing your extraordinary worlds…
– Ken
Editor, Switch-Lit
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