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Wim Lankriet writes psychological literature with unmistakable influences from the memoir genre, seeking a balance between raw, spontaneous forms of expression and more lyrical prose. He published in Zero Readers, De Optimist, Papieren Helden, Sintel, Tijdschrift SKUT and Portulaan. Currently, he is working on a first novel.
Publications
Everything around you
• Top 3 of the Schrijfplaats contest - January 2025 •
‘You're floating. It's like you’re holding yourself as a baby. You’re weightless, soundless. You breathe in the music and the dark void of your field of vision, and everything around you disappears.’
Her Blood and Mine
• Originally published in Papieren Helden - december 2024 •
“It's nothing gory, though. It's even beautiful. An atrocity that occurs in complete silence.”
Empty Spaces
• Published in Zero Readers - September 2024 •
"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."
- Read it on the Zero Readers website -
Of the Dead
• Originally published in De Optimist - May 2024 •
“Her eyes wide open, showing only the whites. That ghostly milky white stare made me so uncomfortable that I kept feeling the urge to look away from her.”
- Read the full story. -
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."
Elise, 1895
• Originally published in Papieren Helden - November 2023 •
"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."
The Other Half
• Portulaan - April 2025 •
"And now... now I want to run away. Run and keep running, until I become a tiny black spot in an immense snowy plain and disappear into nothingness."
Johanna and me
• Originally published in Portulaan - September 2023 •
"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."