Sam Neylon - Media Credits

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] Trigger warning: the story you are about to read contains references to sexual assault. Continue or go back to the main page… Read More »Twang

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] The heat of summer wakes me up. I sleep on towels so that the sticky sweat doesn’t stain my virgin sheets. Three… Read More »Sleep talk

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] sometimes i say oh no in advance, right when i wake up, before anything technically bad happens. one example of something bad… Read More »queen leduc

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] Step One: sit alone at your kitchen table, wonder if his leaving her has anything to do with you, and assure yourself… Read More »Five Stages of Grief

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] The truth about father’s divine law is written in negative spaces for in the world of being there is only a mother… Read More »Like dust

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] A note from the author: This poem is inspired by the Hindu tradition of worshipping pre-pubescent girls as a manifestation of the… Read More »Durga

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] I used someone else as a placeholder for you when I started writing this; walking home alone at 3 AM all the… Read More »Love letters

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] Mouth meets space between bottom rib / top of hipbones meets cyborg surfaces and (me)      Mediation Meets strange delineations Meets skin as a… Read More »Navy sheets

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] Hannah is sixteen, and she sees her friends begin to change their bodies. Nature has already given them breasts and hips, periods… Read More »Butterflies

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] She thought she would give birth in a world where Hawaii had been swallowed by the ocean where bear skeletons littered Arctic… Read More »Birthday

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] To wipe the past three years clean with one swish like dust on a carpet but the bitter taste in my mouth… Read More »Dust, honey, bullets

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] Sensitive, strong Confidence all-encompassing; Channelling my perfect imperfection Until my last remaining belief is in my own worthiness [special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pfooter”] [special_issue… Read More »Perfect imperfection

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] My  mental health dangles by a thread – weighed down by lost loves and the sparse foundation of my family unit. Fibre… Read More »The Thread

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] I have this tendency when I feel empty, to presume that there is something I can consume to feel complete. There is… Read More »Candy

[special_issue slug=”litsup2016″ element=”pheader”] White porcelain, deep and smooth like rocks weathered down by a river’s mighty palm running down its back for an eon of… Read More »The Dry Basin