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Flora Elmi Beagley

Flora Elmi Beagley is a writer based in London. She won the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. Her work explores intimate histories, Anglo-Finnish heritage, materiality, and interwoven linguistics. Beagley’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Wasafiri, Prairie Schooner, Boulevard, The Belfast Review, and West Trade Review.

Invisible Cities

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Deptford

By Flora Elmi Beagley

Nightlife spits and makes me oldin it. That bridge is just stoic, not looked after,my kitchen molding into an hour I choseto ignore. That hill was so cold on the […]

Invisible Cities

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Abacus; Chortkeh

By Flora Elmi Beagley

Tell me about cherried board; from your grandfatherivory; bone in monochromebalanced and turned; by concentrated hands of hisover Brazilian coffee, The first cacao in the city; carpetsSilk, you can feel, […]