Lynnda Wardle

Lynnda is a Scottish-South African writer whose work has appeared in various publications including Gutter, New Writing Scotland, thi wurd, New Orleans Review. In 2007 Lynnda was awarded a Creative Scotland New Writer's award. She is currently studying for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

Connecting with Grief:  Creating an Archive of Love and Loss. In September 2021, my partner Billy died after complications from transplant surgery. I want to create an archive of his life, and our lives together, curating the objects he left behind and using this process as a way to find a new narrative – to imagine being with grief as a space of opening, possibility and celebration rather than closure. I envisage an exhibition where visitors will experience the process of grieving through selected, curated objects and sound recordings. A catalogue of the exhibition, containing poems, photos, text fragments and short lyric essays, will be produced as a permanent interpretive artefact.

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