About
Wim Lankriet lives in Brussels and brings prose with unmistakable influences from the memoir genre. He wrote his first stories in early 2023, and published later the same year in Papieren Helden, Tijdschrift SKUT and Portulaan. Currently, in addition to stories, he is also working on a first novel.
Before, he was active as a composer and lyricist, and between 2010 and 2022 released several albums with the projects Magdalena Solis and Euphemia Rise.
Publications
Without Light
Originally published in Papieren Helden - februari 2024
"A brain injury. The word sits like a block of granite in the middle of the room. I see images of people being fed with a spoon, and my forehead starts to burn."
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Empty spaces
Originally published in Tijdschrift SKUT - november 2023
"I had never killed an animal. Except for that mouse, long ago. That terrifying and insane ritual. Those damn boys. Built a pyre of some sorts and held trial."
Elise, 1895
Originally published in Papieren Helden - november 2024
"An invisible hand knocking soldiers out of the trenches as if they were rats, blown to bits at the touch. All that remained of them were bloody strings of flesh in the mud."
Johanna and me
Originally published in Portulaan - september 2024
"It's as if the other students had no color but a pale gray-brown, the dull shade you get when you mix all the colors in a paint box together."