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Lockdown Voices 2020

We offered young New Zealand writers the opportunity to give voice to their thoughts and ideas about Lockdown 2020.

 

Here are their responses in their own words and voices.

 

The poems and prose pieces were developed with the guidance of Write On mentors through prompts, workshops and/or online feedback.

 

Voice recording was supported by Vox Pop Community app and Plains FM 96.9

 

Thank you the Copyright Licensing New Zealand Contestable Fund Grant 2020

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CONTENTS

Outside again

BY 

Alia G-F

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16

Be kind. Bake biscuits.

BY 

Alice V

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12

In Quarantine

BY 

Ariana B

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10

I survived!

BY 

Arona T

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11

Disformation Disease (a fiction)

BY 

Ava M

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11

To life before the Lockdown

BY 

Betty M

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11

Unopened packages

BY 

Bianca R

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11

My A to Z in Lockdown

BY 

Billie R

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9

Our Lockdown life

BY 

Daisy & Lincoln

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13

The Apocalypse smells like wet dog

BY 

Elizabeth M

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15

Flying home in a pandemic

BY 

Emily T

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10

A family identity

BY 

Ihaka C

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12

Two-month-long battle

BY 

Isla H

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15

Distance

BY 

JA Thea

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15

Keep them quiet!

BY 

Jessica B

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11

The Lockdown Lego challenge

BY 

Lachie W

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11

The birds I saw during Lockdown

BY 

Lauren M

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9

Measure twice, cut once

BY 

Leon G

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11

Bubble Acts of Kindness

BY 

Lincoln and Daisy

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13

How NOT to do your class Zoom meeting

BY 

Lukas D

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11

Azure hand sanitiser- a user review

BY 

Maisie B

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14

Ode to the supermarket DJ

BY 

Milla Y

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10

Standing at dawn

BY 

Monica K

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18

Taekwondo Zooms

BY 

Nerhys G

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12

Level 2, it’s up to you (rap)

BY 

Nevaeh and Ava P

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?

Nails

BY 

Noah M

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16

Building a hut

BY 

Paige C

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12

the mundane

BY 

Portia B

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16

A lost voice

BY 

Rosie C

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16

My personal pandemic

BY 

Ruby L-S

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12

Lockdown Daydreams

BY 

Ruby S

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11

The new normal

BY 

Ruth B

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12

The Major Hornbrook Grand Prix

BY 

Seraphine D-F

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11

Loud siblings. Lockdown siblings

BY 

Sophie M

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12

Cheese and crackers

BY 

Tyson W

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12

Opportunities

BY 

Xavier D

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16

How to social distance

BY 

Yvaine B

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10

A week of Lockdown

BY 

Zara R

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9

Continuum Tides

BY 

Zoe B

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14