How a Writing Residency in the Arctic Forced Me to be Grateful

The landscape you most need to conquer is inside your head.

Chelsey Flood
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readJun 7, 2019

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Photo by Chelsey Flood

Eighteen months sober, I arrived in the wilderness.

September 2017 I travelled to Svalbard for a writing residency.

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