CANADA | Sunday, 16 Oct 2022 | Views [114]
The wail of an Algonquin chief undulates on the October wind. He launches sorrowful prayer towards a darkening sky. Foam whipped up by waterfall crashes down, battling with the din made by beaver-skin drums. White gulls shriek in reply, as though birds ... Read more >
Tags: canada, ceremony, first nations, indigenous people, industrialisation, waterfall
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 21 Mar 2017 | Views [675]
“¡Cuidado!” someone shouts, as a quetzal with a six metre wingspan catches a gust and soars upwards, rippling my hair as I duck. The giant bird lurches as her reins pull taught, and she begins to dance proudly back and forth on the ... Read more >
Tags: 2017 writing scholarship
GAMBIA | Wednesday, 27 May 2015 | Views [350] | Scholarship Entry
Scanning the glitzy neon lights of the Senegambia Strip, I gulp. Malaria tablets never settle well in my stomach and it's been hours since I’ve eaten something. Music throbs out of bars, steel pans merging with incongruous Eurodance beats, mini dancefloors ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
GAMBIA | Thursday, 8 May 2014 | Views [1697] | Scholarship Entry
"Smile! You're on the smiling coast," Rastaman Babu demonstrates with a yellow roll-up pinched between his teeth. The old dreadlocked fisherman steers his painted wooden motorboat past the mouth of the sea and deeper into the swampy waterways. He navigates ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
