Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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Quarantine Has Changed Us – And It’s Not All Bad
What We Lost: COVID-19 Beyond the Numbers
My COVID-19 Diary
They Forgot about Us’: Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among People Deprived of Housing in an Urban Centre in Ontario, Canada
Covid-19 ‘Survivors’ Guilt’ Haunting African Researcher in the US
A Lockdown Lullaby
Plague Inc.
I’m Awake! Memoirs of the Covid-19 Experience….
April 2020 Paris
Prurient
MASK
My Job Became Essential Overnight
Space #3
Exposed: Documenting COVID-19 in the Criminal Justice System
6’
Antara: Songs of Afternoon
Rat
My Roommate Has COVID-19
Eye of the Storm: A Week in the Life of a Paramedic Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Apple Family: A Pandemic Trilogy
Corona Is a Ball with Spikes
Space #2
Mysophobia
Under One Roof: How COVID-19 Turned My Apartment Building of Strangers into a Community
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.