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

Life Lessons

By Rebecca Wayman

Life Lessons looks at profound but often mundane moments in a person's life that are both learning curves and make up the building blocks of who they are. Read More

At Work and Talking to You

By Sophie Diver

At Work and Talking to You centres around those conversations we’ve all found ourselves in, often in the workplace, navigating between self-worth and the judgment of others. Wisdom truly reveals itself in how we deal with conversations like this and the poem delivers tenderness to an otherwise irritating experience. Read More

New Baby Smell

By Briony Bunker

Briony's poem explores the wisdom gained from having a baby - the truths that confound expectations and the secret, unspoken club you join with other parents. Read More

The Lost Things

By Bonnie Radcliffe

Bonnie Radcliffe's beautifully crafted short story explores the wisdom of knowing ourselves and what it means to lose that. Read More

Obituaries

By Alyssa Walker

Alyssa Walker's poem explores one of the lessons she has learned in life so far - say goodbye to the things that no longer serve you. Read More

Our next theme – WISDOM

As one year ends, and another begins, what have you learned? Our next theme is WISDOM. Read More