Dr. Andrea Witzke Slot is a London-based poet and fiction writer
Winner of Fiction International and Able Muse fiction prizes, Andrea Witzke Slot is author of the book To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press 2012), a poetry collection inspired by HD's Sea Garden poems and a top ten bestseller on two Amazon lists, and the forthcoming Ministry of Flowers (Between my country and the others) (Valley Press, 2020), which explores the real and metaphorical flowers that connect us as humans. After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK and then at Collin College in Texas and at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now lives in London where she works as a contributing artist with Fiona Lesley's Poetry Exchange and tries to capture the unexpected beauty of humanity and nature in words, paints, and photography.
She is currently at work on a second novel, started during her time as a fellow at Hawthornden Castle. Her first (unpublished) novel manuscript was one of two finalists in A room of Her Own's Clarissa Dalloway Prize in 2014.
She is currently at work on a second novel, started during her time as a fellow at Hawthornden Castle. Her first (unpublished) novel manuscript was one of two finalists in A room of Her Own's Clarissa Dalloway Prize in 2014.
some recent publications:
Stand Magazine - 'Where our Hands, like memories, Rest in the Night', a short story
Litro (Flash Friday, Editor's Pick) 'The Family Friend,' a flash fiction piece
Compass Magazine - 'The Daffodils' & 'The Time-Being of Oak', two poems
Fictive Dream -'Proximity': a story of a woman in her final hours
Acumen - 'Standing Near my Father's Work', a poem
Ambit - 'Between my country and the others, as ministry', a poem
London Grip - 'Monuments of Home', a poem
Amaryllis- 'What I Saw on the Heath Today, June Fourteenth, Two Thousand Seventeen, Lines composed the morning of the Grenfell Tower fire, 11 days after the London Bridge attack, 23 days after the Manchester Arena bombing'
Sample poems from To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press, 2012)
Lunch Ticket Spotlight - 'I want to die the way my dog sleeps,' 'In Gratitude of the Strange Phenomenon of Reynaud's '
& 'It doesn't spell disaster'
Rappahannock Review 'The Palm of Proprioception'
Litro (UK) - 'The Wall': a parable-like story of solitude and the wall of social media
Litro (NY) - 'Penelope thinks she remembers her father': a modern reworking of the Penelope myth
'Dialogic Poetry and the work of Harryette Mullen' from Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Editors' intro here)
Stand Magazine - 'Where our Hands, like memories, Rest in the Night', a short story
Litro (Flash Friday, Editor's Pick) 'The Family Friend,' a flash fiction piece
Compass Magazine - 'The Daffodils' & 'The Time-Being of Oak', two poems
Fictive Dream -'Proximity': a story of a woman in her final hours
Acumen - 'Standing Near my Father's Work', a poem
Ambit - 'Between my country and the others, as ministry', a poem
London Grip - 'Monuments of Home', a poem
Amaryllis- 'What I Saw on the Heath Today, June Fourteenth, Two Thousand Seventeen, Lines composed the morning of the Grenfell Tower fire, 11 days after the London Bridge attack, 23 days after the Manchester Arena bombing'
Sample poems from To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press, 2012)
Lunch Ticket Spotlight - 'I want to die the way my dog sleeps,' 'In Gratitude of the Strange Phenomenon of Reynaud's '
& 'It doesn't spell disaster'
Rappahannock Review 'The Palm of Proprioception'
Litro (UK) - 'The Wall': a parable-like story of solitude and the wall of social media
Litro (NY) - 'Penelope thinks she remembers her father': a modern reworking of the Penelope myth
'Dialogic Poetry and the work of Harryette Mullen' from Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Editors' intro here)
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In the Poetry Exchange's Latest Podcast, Al Snell and I talk with Alida about a poem that has been a friend to her.This was a particularly special conversation as Alida talks about the poem 'The Cedar' and how it has been with her from childhood in the Netherlands to her life now, as an immigrant in the UK, post-Brexit. Held at London Podcast Festival 2019 at Kings Place, this conversation, guest and poem continue to inspire.
In the Poetry Exchange's Latest Podcast, Al Snell and I talk with Alida about a poem that has been a friend to her.This was a particularly special conversation as Alida talks about the poem 'The Cedar' and how it has been with her from childhood in the Netherlands to her life now, as an immigrant in the UK, post-Brexit. Held at London Podcast Festival 2019 at Kings Place, this conversation, guest and poem continue to inspire.
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