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Alice Hattrick
Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships, titled Ill Feelings, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021.


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Ill Feelings

Feature

Issue No. 19

Alice Hattrick

Feature

Issue No. 19

My mother recently found some loose diary pages I wrote in my first year of boarding school, aged eleven, whilst she was clearing out...

Art

February 2016

'Look at me, I said to the glass in a whisper, a breath.'

Alice Hattrick

Art

February 2016

Listen to her. She is telling you about her adolescence. She is telling you about one particular ‘bender’ that...

I am standing in front of a room full of people reading out a story The room is dark I am wearing a head torch so I can read the story My hands are shaking The story is about me getting drunk and having sex with a person A lot of people in the room know about me getting drunk and having sex with a person I did not know the name of the person I had sex with   After I have read the story I wander round the room and don’t know what to say I have already said over a thousand words in a row Sometimes when I approach a group of people one of them will say something positive and either clasp my arm briefly or touch the upper section of my arm I am approaching as many groups of people as possible so I get the highest number of positive things said to me I am feeling happy This is partly because I have been told a lot of positive things but also because I have drunk around five bottles of beer The number of people in the room is decreasing The amount of beer in the room has already decreased to zero This is worrying as the two main things I want are alcohol and people   There is a person I want a lot standing and talking about some objects I arranged on and near a wall I think that I should go and talk to the person If I crashed into the person while we were both in cars I would definitely talk to the person about the arrangement of solid waves in the shell of their vehicle, perhaps implying that they should permit the serendipitous beauty of the incident to assuage their feelings I go to talk to the person The person did not see me say over a thousand words in a row so I feel like they are less likely to object to me talking to them The person does not know that I arranged the objects on the wall but expresses

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships,...

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Art

July 2014

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses and their extensions. In his...

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Interview

March 2017

Interview with Ondjaki

Stephen Henighan

Interview

March 2017

Ondjaki is the most prominent African writer of Portuguese from the generations born after Portugal’s five former colonies on...

Interview

Issue No. 9

Interview with Rebecca Solnit

Tess Thackara

Interview

Issue No. 9

Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, like many of her books and essays, is a tapestry of autobiographical narrative, environmental and...

fiction

Issue No. 1

Beyond the Horizon

Patrick Langley

fiction

Issue No. 1

Listen to the silence, let it ring on. (Joy Division, Transmission) I It is not yet dawn. The city...

 

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