Madeleine Ballard

Madeleine Ballard is a mixed-race writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is currently studying towards an MA in Creative Writing at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Her work has been published in journals including SWAMP and Turbine | Kapohau, and she writes a newsletter at fieldnotesonfeeling.substack.com.

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Articles by Madeleine Ballard

She and I by Madeleine Ballard

Wasafiri is proud to publish the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize shortlisted pieces. These poems, essays, and short stories detail a range of emotions and experiences, produced by promising new writers from all over the globe. In this life writing piece, Madeleine Ballard portrays the tenderness and the careful navigation of a mother daughter relationship.

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