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Tell me about your story in
Aftermath - but don't give any spoilers!
My story in Aftermath is called The Protecting Shadow of the Ancestors.
It's about confinement and hope, and what we take with us into an uncertain
future.
What inspired you to write this?
It was inspired by coming across something about
the spinning of silkworms, which led me to ponder transformation of different
kinds.
Why did you think it important to
contribute to this collection?
I wanted to offer a contribution to this anthology
because to me writing is a way we can cope with uncertainty, and the pandemic
has presented us with unprecedented uncertainty, which no-one has been spared.
Sharing our responses to it can, I feel, help us all get through this
extraordinary time.
How have you coped with the pandemic?
I didn't cope well with the pandemic in the first
months of lockdown. I was consumed by fear, unable to write, unable even to
read. But, gradually, I found words again, ebbing and flowing, and now I find
myself working on several writing projects with renewed energy.
Can you tell us about your other
publications?
I have two published novellas - The Plankton
Collector, New Welsh Review (2018) and In the Sweep of the Bay,
Louise Walters Books (2020). There is a list of my shorter publications on my
website - https://cathbarton.com.
A continuing response by writers to the Covid19 pandemic in 2020 and
during the ongoing aftershocks in 2021, this collection is of work by
writers we have published before and whom we trust, and their trusted
colleagues. When disasters strike writers respond and react in words.
They share with us their hopes and fears. They describe and rationalise.
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