This book is an attempt to funnel the visions and responses to this pandemic of young writers who crafted original texts based on their experiences, feelings and reflections regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. These texts were subsequently translated into Spanish by students of Translation Studies at the University de Alcala.

Family tension. Poetry, and the trauma of casual racism. An archivist of the distant future.

A unique collaboration between Creative Writing students at UEA and students of Translation Studies at the University de Alcalá, Unmasked Writings/Historias desconfinadas is a series of five chapbooks mapping the emotional angles of the pandemic and giving voice to the long moments of introspection we all cultivated during the hardest months of this crisis. Each text is presented both in the original English and the translated Spanish.

This is volume one, Muted Voices/voces acalladas.

Lady Time by Molly-Rose Medhurst, translated by Ana Sánchez Asenjo

Silences by Michaela Vitagliano, translated by Sonia Herranz Martínez and Salomé Torres Vargas

Unmask Me by Denise Monroe, translated by Paula López García and Olivia Serret Sanz