Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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In the Year of the Virus: A Poignant Look Back at the Time When the World Was Affected by the Coronavirus
Friday Essay: COVID in Ten Photos
What It’s Like to Be a Teacher during Coronavirus Pandemic
Pandemic Poems
Overhead
A Message to Our Friends on the Moon: The Pandemic of 2020
Ma guerre du Covid: Journal d’une urgentiste alsacienne
Vizards, Face Gloves and Window Hoods – A History of Masks in Western Fashion
Pas de Deux
Covid-19
A Persian New Year Beginning with COVID-19
Insane after Coronavirus?
Really Real Dragons
Memoirs and Misinformation
Museum Digital Initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Pandemic Diary
Covid-19: 15 Poems from Children in 15 Countries
Quarantine Has Changed Us – And It’s Not All Bad
What We Lost: COVID-19 Beyond the Numbers
In the Isolation Room
My COVID-19 Diary
notes from this city
My Job Became Essential Overnight
I Gave Birth in Toronto during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background
Corpus
Our research spans 2020-2025, detailing pandemic waves, lockdowns, vaccinations, and recovery. Factors include ability, age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic positions.
Method
Our databank selections capture diverse pandemic narratives, prioritizing inclusivity, with ongoing updates and scholarly annotations.
Resource for Research
Our database probes COVID-19 narratives’ aesthetic, social, cultural roles, offering insight, therapy, and debunking misinformation.
Values
The database transcends literature norms, emphasizes global humanity, solidarity, equity, diversity, inclusion, amplifying marginalized voices.
Submit your Research on COVID-19
Scholars and Researchers: Submit your essay engaging with any aspect of telling COVID-19 stories. We are looking for thesis-driven research, with a clear theory framework, a body of analysis that shows concrete examples, and a conclusion. Images are welcome. Articles are subject to peer-review and editing.
Share your Personal COVID-19 Story
Creative writers: Contribute to our global narrative project, amplifying diverse experiences and challenges.