“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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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 foray into the artistic world, keeping her creative while introducing her to the other art forms she’d grow to love. It was her first ever art form and the source point of her creative journey. Frantic stories sprawling entire notebooks about future worlds and outlandish characters became cemented into her day to day life as she was repeatedly encouraged by family members and teachers to keep doing what she loved. Wyatt won her first ever writing award from an essay competition, 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 epics left wandering in drafts, Wyatt has since moved onto to poetry and short form literature, as well as writing for film, television 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 or text to study, became more and more impactful to her the moment she started writing them for leisure. Her journey with poetry started upon discovering Escapril in April of 2020 and has only continued from there.
In 2024, Wyatt wrote her first ever radio play which was broadcast as a part of CHROMA’S KEY with Ivan Ceria, further expanding her writing catalogue to include audio-based projects.
To date, there are hundreds of poems she has written, along with short stories, interactive and traditional scripts and the occasional audio-narrative. In her writing, 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.