![]() ![]() Out of that discomfort, Winter Harvest was born, my personal attempt to reimagine the myths I grew up with, placing the heroes in the roles and power dynamics that were important to me as a child. ![]() I am not sure what my objection is, only that I feel something is out of place. If it is one issue or many small ones that cause this dissociation. Ioanna: I wrote Winter Harvest after years of reading ancient Greek mythology retellings and always feeling that something was missing from them compared to how I experienced them as a young girl. It is the story of a female goddess, struggling to fit into the patriarchal status quo of Olympus while she is constantly changing her identity in an attempt to find her place in the world and what it means to be female. Ioanna: Winter Harvest is the story of Demeter, the Greek goddess of the Harvest, but not simply of the mother goddess who lost her daughter and went on a journey to find her. ![]() Ioanna’s novel, Winter Harvest, will be published by Ghost Orchid Press in November 2023. Her work can be found at places like Hexagon Magazine, Idle Ink, Piker Press and The Future Fire. She is currently on a Museum studies course. She studied Art History and Heritage Visualization and has worked in museums, libraries and community centres. IOANNA PAPADOPOULOU is a Greek author, currently residing in Glasgow. ![]()
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