Claire Polders

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  • The Hour of Water
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    Superstition Review

    How do we behave in unfamiliar environments? When do we know how to trust someone? How do strangers become friends? What is the Hour of Water?

  • Egypt on Your Own
    Wander, Wonder, Write

    Egypt on Your Own

    Can you visit Egypt on your own? Is it safe to travel down the Nile valley? Here’s what I learned from our month-long independent journey.

  • Sidle Creek
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    Sidle Creek

    Sidle Creek is the debut story collection by Jolene McIlwain. Although I’m still working on a full-blown critique, I can already say that the book blew me away.

  • The Cincinnati Review
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    The Cincinnati Review

    The Cincinnati Review published my story "Mirror" in their MiCRo series. I've been reading work from this series for years and was happy they selected this piece to include.

  • Malaysian Street Food
    Wander, Wonder, Write

    Malaysian Street Art, Street Food, and More

    There are endless things to see in Malaysia—temples! rain forests! crumbling façades!—but it’s worth visiting this country for the food alone. The same is true for the kind people you meet, the humbling trees, the butterflies that land on your…

  • Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
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    Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

    I'm proud that Randall Brown selected my creative nonfiction piece "Marzipan" for publication in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

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About Me

  • ‣ Born in: Gouda, the Netherlands
  • ‣ Currently in: Vietnam
  • ‣ Arrived from: Malaysia
  • ‣ Next destination: Unknown
  • ‣ Writing online since: 2005
  • ‣ Novels Published: 5
  • ‣ Current projects: a memoir on elder abuse, a multi-generational novel about the dark Dutch colonial past, and two short prose collections

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