Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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Home Safe: A Memoir of End-of-Life Care During Covid-19
Hanging in the Air
Grief in Times of Corona (Envoi)
The Animals in That Country
Soap and Water & Common Sense: The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease
Soap and Water & Common Sense: The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease
On the Frontline of COVID-19: Diary of a Doctor
I Am Not Invincible: My COVID-19 Story
A Persian New Year Beginning with COVID-19
Living the Learning Life in a Time of COVID 19
Escaping New York Before It Became the COVID-19 Epicenter
Quarantine Reads: “The Waves”
Living in a Sci-Fi Movie: An Italian Screenwriter on Coronavirus
The Quarantine Diaries
Insane after Coronavirus?
Covid-19: 15 Poems from Children in 15 Countries
Overhead
Left in the Dark: COVID Behind Bars
Outbreak Diaries: March 2020 to September 2021
The Covid Canvas: Artist Profiles and Interviews of the Pandemic Era
Crisis Zone
2020. COVID-19 and Its Ghosts at Our Doorsteps: Transformations, Opportunities and Limits
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
Love and Social Distancing in the Time of COVID-19: The Philosophy and Literature of Pandemics
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.