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Sophia HembeckI can feel the longing of a future self waiting impatiently to take me to the other side of things.
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So you want to become a writer?
“I’ve always felt that the more personal you get, the more universal the application, rather than the other way around. If you begin to address yourself to the masses like that, then I suppose you could have a hit, but to me the more accura...
there is only the present anyway
Póvoa de Varzim, June, 2026
There’s a line from a poem I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past couple of weeks.
“This place where you are right now
God circled on a map for you.”
It’s from Hafez, a Persian poet of the 14th centur...
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Photography: Sophia McTaggart
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Sophia Hembeck is a writer, visual artist & cultural critic. She has published three collections of lyrical essays: Things I Have Noticed, 2020, Things I Have Loved, 2023 & Things That Are Different Now, 2025.
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