Tag: Antigone

Writing Loss and Grief series – Submissions are pouring in

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” So, what losses have shaped you? What grief has remade you? What painful moments still throb beneath the surface, waiting to be named? The Lagos Review invites you to write them – boldly, honestly, unflinchingly, powerfully.

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS: WRITING LOSS & GRIEF

Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.

From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.

And now, it’s your turn.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”