Archive - reading while walking

Messing Around in the Lost & Found

On shedding skin and social media presence

Jul 9 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

June 2025

On Radical Hope

Or how (not) to disappear completely; Or the collapse of civilisation

Jun 23 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

May 2025

Letters to Anabella

Or why I'll never delete my Facebook account

May 17 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

April 2025

The Perks of Living a Quiet Life

On not making a fuss

Apr 27 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

For Keeps: On finishing my first novel

(and moments of irrevocable change)

Apr 19 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

March 2025

The Curious Case of the Uncurious Writer

On Creative Writing Courses, Otherness, and Casual Racism

Mar 17 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

February 2025

Something Will Turn Up or, Evading Bitterness

Notes on Disappointment

Feb 28 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

Literary Fiction is not real

and it can't hurt you; it's just a category made up by publishers to sell books

Feb 1 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

January 2025

The Fascinating I

The artist and the spawn of Narcissus

Jan 18 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

I can't hear my thoughts

On things I don't need to know about

Jan 7 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

December 2024

A short story by Marcela Santos Brigida

Dec 28, 2024 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

Horseness Is The Whatness

On Joyce, Ali Smith, self-fashioning, and the constant rebranding of everyday life

Dec 15, 2024 •

Marcela Santos Brigida

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