A meditation on the scrapbook Shirley Jackson used to store the hostile letters from readers of her infamous short-story ‘The Lottery’.
Phillip Crymble
Phillip Crymble is a physically disabled poet and literary scholar from Belfast now living in Atlantic Canada. A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead, and a doctoral candidate at UNB-Fredericton researching hybrid poetics, he holds a MFA from the University of Michigan, and has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Magma, The Forward Book of Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2007, he was selected to read in Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series. In 2016, Not Even Laughter, his first full length collection, was released by Salmon Poetry.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey