“Poetry is something that cannot be defined without oversimplifying it. It would be like attempting to define the colour yellow, love, the fall of leaves in autumn.”
~Jorge Luis Borges
~Jorge Luis Borges
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FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, I HAVE BEEN WRITING....
Wyatt’s writing has always been extremely important to her, and has interweaved itself into her life from the moment she first felt compelled to do it. It was her first ever art form and the source point of her creative journey. What started as frantic stories sprawling entire notebooks about future worlds and outlandish characters became cemented into her day to day life as it was repeatedly encouraged by family members and teachers. Wyatt won her first ever award from a writing essay, The Many Faces of Markham, in Grade 1, having only been 6 years old. Being her most consistent creative endeavour yet, Wyatt’s writing has long since evolved from the days of scribbling ideas on loose leafs of paper or typing a chapter at a time into Wattpad’s rudimentary publishing tool. Originally an amateur novelist, with several unfinished stories left wandering in drafts, Wyatt has since moved onto to poetry and short form literature, as well as writing for film and games. Switching into works of shorter lengths seemed inevitable to Wyatt as time went on, but one thing she never really expected was becoming further engrossed into poetry. Poems, known to her only as assignments to write, text to study, and rhyming words to pass the time, became more and more impactful to her the moment she started writing poems for leisure. Her journey with poetry started upon discovering Escapril in April of 2020 and has only continued from there. To date, there are hundreds of poems she has written, but the practice has turned into a self-fulfilling one, writing poems purely for her own enjoyment, and only rarely to be published. Although she doesn’t really consider herself a poet, this hasn’t stopped her from writing or reading poetry addictively in her spare time. This is the not the same for her other writing endeavours. Short stories are often submitted for critique or literary journals, games scripts and level designs are turned into games, and screenplays are turned into films. Most recently, Wyatt wrote her first ever radio play which was broadcast as a part of CHROMA’S KEY in April of 2024. As she continues to increase her writing portfolio, she continues to write short films, games, poems and short stories to pass the time. She likes to focus on introspectives, having many stories that focus on lone characters and situations, turning the small and mundane into something monstrous or monumental. Her stories can be anything from a conversation between a person and the ocean, to a dystopian tale of the last person on the planet. Wyatt’s writing is akin to a bildungsroman at times, simply following its characters, not waiting for the plot to begin but waiting for its characters to move. While Wyatt still dreams of one day publishing a novel, she can proudly boast several of her works (non-fiction and fiction alike) having been published on various blogs, websites and literary magazines, winning a local and regional essay competition in the Caribbean and helping to bring to life several stories pitched to her by friends and colleagues alike. Her writing career may not yet be illustrious, but it is surely on the rise. Thus far, she has been published in
Bag of Bones Press,
Haunted Words Press, Rejection Letters, The Rio Grande Review, and most recently, Petal Projections.