WISDOM prompts: lessons, advice and heroes

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

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

Look at You

We're jumping into July's theme with Eleanor Dillon-Reams, whose poem is a reminder of just how far you've come. Read More