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    The Flight of the Bar-tailed Godwit

    Escape-travel | Ûnderútwei

    Tamara Feddema (she/her, 1976) was born and raised on the countryside of the Frisian woodlands and swamps. She has been a creative writer since the tender age of eight, when she wrote her first play. Her primary written language is Frisian but she also dabbles in English and Dutch. Her body of creative work consists of plays, songtexts, spoken word texts and short stories but the emphasis mainly lies on writing Frisian poetry. Main sources of inspiration include art, nature, travel, life and abstract, surreal, pop-art poetry.
    A student with the Frisian branch of the Dutch Writers College (Skriuwersfakskoalle) since 2024, Feddema’s poetry was picked up and published by the magazine De Moanne (autobiographical poems ‘It Lykpaad’ and ‘Jan van de Capelle’). The main Frisian newspaper Leeuwarder Courant, in a collaboration with said magazine, published her short story ‘It Blommefjild’ (Field of Flowers). With her poem ‘Winter yn Fryslân’ she won the competition ‘GJALP 2025’ and was launched on The Northern Film Festival and online, read by Feddema herself and subtitled in English.

     

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    Long Haul Body

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    Escape-travel | Ûnderútwei

    Tamara Feddema (she/her, 1976) was born and raised on the countryside of the Frisian woodlands and swamps. She has been…
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