Nudge Theory

By Emily Hopkins

Emily Hopkins' poem focuses on how calorie labelling on menus affects someone with a history of disordered eating. tw: disordered eating, diet culture Read More

Snow Days

By Nadia Henderson

Nadia Henderson's free-verse poem 'Snow Days' explores the simple joy of an unexpected day off work against the difficult backdrop of the climate crisis that has caused it. Read More

I’ll Show You

Ilisha Thiru Purcell imagines what it would be like to talk to her 18 year old self and to tell her about all the pleasure she is yet to experience. Read More

We Make Our Own

By Laura Christine Price

In this short fiction, Cat meets Liam in Barcelona, slowly discovering the tension around pleasure. Read More

Because We’re Mortals

By Courtney Burk

Courtney Burk's poem explores the end of a pleasurable day where the speaker realises her own mortality against the backdrop of classical mythology Read More

Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship

By Sara Sherwood

Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More

WISDOM prompts: lessons, advice and heroes

We're thrilled to share the winner of the DD WISDOM prompts competition, Emma Boyns. Read More

Don’t Let Them Get High Off Your Narcissistic Supply: Rule #1 Do Not Offer Yourself Up as the Scapegoat

By Riley Forsythe

Don’t Get High off Your Narcissistic Supply is a series of poems that offer up nurturing advice to anyone who, like an awkward newborn giraffe stumbles to find their footing on sturdy ground, has newly awakened to realise they have been the victim of narcissistic abuse. The series aims to gently support with wry humour and inner child healing suggestions. Read More

Pub Crawl

By Safa Maryam

In Pub Crawl, the narrator finds herself in a familiar setting and situation. This time, however, she is years older and a little wiser to the rose-tinted and romanticised view she had of the same scene and circumstances she stood in so many times before, when she was just nineteen and in love. Read More

Mother

By Sophie Titcomb

Sophie Titcomb's non-fiction piece charts her experience of gradual knowing; of my body and heart knowing better than she did how to love and care for her son, while she was still adjusting to (and in some ways, struggling with) the concept of being a mother. Read More