Writer's Block Magazine

Unfinished House

December 5, 2024

In the most privileged way possible, the past few years I have been entangled in webs of grief and having to navigate it a few countries away. Twice I have boarded a plane knowing I was landing on a funeral. Twice, I have managed to swerve away from the questions from curious seatmates regarding my…

Look at What’s In Front of You

November 28, 2024

by Robin van Minnen

When I try to trace back the moment I first realised how much I enjoyed drawing and painting, I always settle on the art classes I took at Artis when I was still in primary school. The zoo here in Amsterdam has a special programme called ‘Artis Ateliers’ which is meant to offer the city’s…

Flash Fiction Competition 2023 – Third Place: All The World, Once, On His Side

November 23, 2024

by Mundi Cox, Short Story Competition 2023

by Mundi Cox “There are three rules for walking through the woods,” Minari’s character told his son, almost whispering. “The first is that survival is not guaranteed, everything is contingent.” The film was one that I came across often at one point, in every film menu of every hotel room I stayed in. After avoiding…

Inspiration

November 21, 2024

by Raquel Rodríguez Mulero

When I think about the act of writing, I do not conceive it as a structured procedure. Coming from a very organised and task-oriented person, this is rather disruptive, but maybe that’s the reason why I believe in arts finding their way through everyday life and established patterns as much as possible. They act as…

You Do Not Have to Be Good: On Female Rage

November 14, 2024

by Lhya Munive

Judith Beheading Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi “You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.” Wilde Geese, Mary Oliver Rage (n.) is defined in the Cambridge English dictionary as “extreme or violent anger”. Similarly, Merriam-Webster phrases it as a “violent or uncontrolled anger”.…