Linda Collins

Poetry, essays, memoir (Loss Adjustment), fiction, journalism, suicide prevention. MAs at UEA, IIML. 2nd Mslexia, SL Bridport, Joy Harjo finalist.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@NewsroomNZ has this creative nonfiction
piece by me up in ReadingRoom about #lossadjustment, my late daughter Victoria, & also poet #CyrilWong. @AwaPress @maryvarnham @modernletters @jongresham

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@JoyLanzendorfer I got this reply from a publisher: 'Thanks for your patience ... To be honest, this kind of memoir by someone without a public profile doesn’t really work for us. They just don’t sell that well, no matter how well written they are...Consider switching to fiction?

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

Thanks so much for this @HeadlandJournal

[Headland @HeadlandJournal]

Meet Linda Collins! Linda is the author of 'Galloping at the Estuary' in Issue 25.

https://t.co/olhuE2gTc6

🖼 Author photo: Malcolm McLeod

#literaryjournal #nzwriters

[Härkönen @yokaihainen]

If there's one thing I learned from Dr Nazir it's this: metaphors don't have to make sense. In fact they shouldn't make sense. For far too long they've been subjugated to the secondary status of having to stand for something other than themselves.

The genius of Dr Nazir is that he made metaphors self-sufficient and if there's any justice in this world, one day they'll reward him with the Nobel Prize for this. This prize was a good and well-earned start on this path, no matter what the hoards of the envious say

[Headland @HeadlandJournal]

Headland's Issue 25 is out now!

Have a read on our website https://t.co/TasKXpnvln

We are so excited to share this incredible writing!

📷: Cover image: Sophie Gwynne-Robson

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

My essay, Galloping at the Estuary, is in the latest issue of Headland journal. So happy to be in this. And such a pleasure to work with the editorial team. Thank you. https://t.co/mUCYxCaD35

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@Ardy346 @Suitandtie9999 Stunning line break in that opening couplet. love the quatrains, the caesura effect there, the iambic resistance. Then the sestet at the ending, the last line a sign-off, the deceptive prosaic nature of that, the lack of latinate, the implied fricative.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@ABC I bought a thermos in a secondhand shop recently and two random older women customers told me to be careful when undoing the lid as they can pop off and hit you in the face. Seems to be essential knowledge passed down through the generations.

[Zach Schonfeld @zzzzaaaacccchhh]

A sitcom about Thomas Pynchon winning a $600,000 literary prize and then gradually losing his mind as the prize committee forces him to create a series of short-form Instagram videos promoting the award and showing off his morning routine.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@JaneVsw @TheRSC I was lucky enough to see that in the early 90s and they were both wonderful. A deeply moving experience.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

I've got a review of Jac Jenkins' collection, Moon too Heavy, in the NZ Poetry Society's latest magazine, a fine line. Jenkins was a poet at the same IIML workshops when I was memoirist. The review draws on that experience, and mutual domesticity😆. @nzpoetrysociety

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

Sad to read this.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

UCL will close its Institute of Advanced Studies this summer, stating the interdisciplinary research centre is no longer financially sustainable, reports @jgro_the
https://t.co/q9wZcMUzJs

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@channnnnyyyyy My daughter died tragically in 2014 and we have been unable to unlock her Android phone. we keep it charged up in hope.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

When you realize that graduating before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 was like taking the last chopper out of Vietnam

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@amwilson_opera @wmarybeard Got this reply from a publisher about a new project: 'To be honest, this kind of memoir by someone without a public profile doesn’t really work for us. They just don’t sell that well, no matter how well written they are. So, yes, I guess you could consider switching to fiction?'

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@CoolestLame_Evr As the mum of a teenage daughter who took her own life, I would resent the insinuation she simply 'gave up'. She tried her hardest to stay. It would be better to be specific, to advise keep seeking help if troubled, try other counsellors if one doesn't work, keep asking.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

I have this piece in The Straits Times today on what would have been Victoria's 29th birthday. RIP darling. #Lossadjustment
Angie, our cat, connects me with Victoria, my late daughter https://t.co/rCrzmLEulk

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

Congrats to friend Olivia Tuck, one of three poets selected for Primers Volume Eight published by prestigious @NineArchesPress.

[Nine Arches Press @NineArchesPress]

We're delighted to introduce our three PRIMERS Volume 8 Finalists. Congratulations to:

Carl Alexandersson
Rachel Jeffcoat
Olivia Tuck

Huge thanks to all our shortlisted and highly commended poets and everyone who submitted work in the PRIMERS 8 call-out. https://t.co/suTDJV72Wg

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

So true. RIP Victoria.

[Sarah Boon #StopTheShock @Saraheboon]

“What I needed wasn’t to try harder to be “more social.” It was to be seen: to have someone recognise that being quiet, well-behaved, and unassuming doesn’t mean being content”

This quote and the entire post really hit home.

@AutisticGirls_

https://t.co/Gkg58e75Hj

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@JasonWMizer Yeah i get 'book clubs would love etc'. Um, it's about my daughter's suicide.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@adrianmckinty Pale Fire inspired me to write a creative-critical essay where the End Notes seize control. But my university marker discounted the End Notes as he said this exceeded the word limit. Didn't quite get the point.