Hannah Kawira Hartwell
Bio
A writer, actor, musician and activist from Wales. I love poetry, travel, theatre and music, telling the stories that people want to hear, and having a meaningful impact on the people my words interact with!
Stories (26/0)
A Displaced Generation
We live in a world obsessed with movement. At any given time, a quarter of all UK citizens are looking to move house within a year. For us the entire planet is accessible in just a few clicks and we are often so distracted with what is far away, that our immediate surroundings might as well be a foreign territory.
By Hannah Kawira Hartwellabout a year ago in Humans
The Pathetic Moonlight that Stole Elise
It was a dark and stormy night. The sky’s anguish at the world could not be expressed enough through the aggressive pounding of rain on the forest floor, nor the howls of pain in the wind, and vengeance in the thunder. Lightning flashed like threats of sharp knives and swords to the tall and intrusive mountains, as the congregations of trees bowed down in repentant submission to the wrath of their supervisor.
By Hannah Kawira Hartwell5 years ago in Humans
"Laudatio"
"Give Thanks," proclaims the Vicar, from the front of the cavernous church. His loud and confident command, however quickly softens, perhaps in respect of the service he conducts, or embarrassment at the negligent faces of a congregation, who would rather do anything but 'give thanks' for something that has torn their hearts into shreds, and buried the fragments on some painfully distant desert island.
By Hannah Kawira Hartwell5 years ago in Families