Life Writing
Autobiography, Diary, Memoir, Personal Essay
My Mom Died While I Was Covering COVID. It Changed My Views on Grief
How a Fourth Case of Covid Changed My Perspective on the Pandemic
I Became a Pastor during the Pandemic
Home Safe: A Memoir of End-of-Life Care During Covid-19
My COVID19 Diary
“Seven Days in Lockdown”: A Performance Autoethnography of Physical Activity and Mental Health
Now That We Can Finally Go Out, Why Do I Actually Hate It?
My Big COVID Breakup Cost Me My Friends
COVID Diaries: Quotidian Snapshots of Life during the Pandemic
COVID Has Changed the Way I Eat. Don’t Take Chances with Omicron
My Kidneys Were Failing. I Was Scared and in Disbelief. All I Could Do Was Cry
A Welcome Unfreedom in South Korea
Covid-19 ‘Survivors’ Guilt’ Haunting African Researcher in the US
My COVID Experience: ‘I Wish It Was Different.’” Journal of Palliative Medicine
Left in the Dark: COVID Behind Bars
2020. COVID-19 and Its Ghosts at Our Doorsteps: Transformations, Opportunities and Limits
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
My COVID Diary: ‘First It Was the Infection; Then It Turned into Stress and Anxiety
Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic
Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
I Am Sorry For Your Loss: Memoirs of a COVID-19 Survivor
I Hate the Mom That Covid Has Made Me
Life Behind Masks: The Many Shades of Hope in the Time of Covid
Teens in Covid Isolation: ‘I Felt like I Was Suffocating
Reflections of a COVID-19 Long Hauler
Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Residency Diary: Second Year—COVID-19 in New York
Pandemic Playground
I’m Awake! Memoirs of the Covid-19 Experience….
What It’s Like to Be a Teacher during Coronavirus Pandemic
Ma guerre du Covid: Journal d’une urgentiste alsacienne
A Persian New Year Beginning with COVID-19
Insane after Coronavirus?
Really Real Dragons
Pandemic Diary
Quarantine Has Changed Us – And It’s Not All Bad
In the Isolation Room
A Thundering Silence
During the COVID-19 Crisis, Don’t Shoot the Messenger
I Can’t Answer My Daughter’s Questions about COVID-19
The Country Won’t Work Without Them
Days without Name: On Time in the Time of Coronavirus
The Quarantine Diaries
Quarantine Reads: “The Waves”
Living in a Sci-Fi Movie: An Italian Screenwriter on Coronavirus
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