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Author: Beth McAulay

Beth McAulay is a writer from North Wales. Committed to the improvement of how Wales’s diverse identity is represented, she is involved in Welsh independent journalism, as well as Welsh literary and arts magazines. She is an MA student at Durham University, pursuing the study of literature’s intersection with 20th Century physics, synchronicity, and spatial phenomenology.

Forester McClatchey: How I Wrote ‘Elephant in Hannibal’s Army’

Posted on February 5, 2025February 18, 2025

“Perhaps the best one can hope to do when writing in the voice of an animal is urgently point to one’s own ignorance.”

Content warning: animal cruelty, war

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