Manifesto
L’Audacia is a magazine that hopes to celebrate good writing in a way that fosters community rather than competition. We believe there is room for everyone and that literature need not appeal to a higher justification; it is valuable in and of itself. Above all, we believe there is no point to writing, or indeed reading, if it is not enjoyable on some level. We believe the most effective form of rebellion is to find joy in the little things and take a break from the world, and this is what we hope to provide.
We want to bring back art for art’s sake.
About the Editors
We are a group of friends with a background in literary studies. We are all writers and bonded over our passion for reading literature and media that makes you think and eases burnout rather than causes it. As we also enjoy writing about literature, as well as consuming and making it, we want to bring analysis and appreciation of contemporary literature to the forefront of the reading world.
Connie is one of the co-founders and editors of L’Audacia Literary Magazine. Her degree involved a mixture of literature, publishing and creative writing. Alongside writing short stories and screenplays, she enjoys taking and editing photographs on her film camera. She always leaves the bookshop with too many new books. She has not read them yet.
Chantale is a co-founder and editor of L’Audacia Literary Magazine. As is clear from her desk, she frequently partakes in multi-tasking and productive procrastination. Her previous editorial work includes editing for the seventh issue of Broad Street Humanities Review, and her writing has appeared in Zindabad Zine (2022), Friend: Poems by Young People (2023), a poem longlisted in the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Prize (2023), with more pieces forthcoming elsewhere. Chantale’s obsessions include poetry, The Red and the Black, archives, coffee, and tea.
Not pictured: her secret bookshelves and myriad, dishevelled desk drawers.
Maria is one of the co-founders and editors of L'Audacia. She tries very hard to make her surroundings look more put together, but she keeps buying ridiculously cute knick knacks (left to right on her top shelf: the Lamp-a-Cat, Rigoberta and Clodoveo). She has no self control when it comes to museums, postcards and opera tickets. Her literary portfolio consists of pretentious diary entries, mushy poems and two unpublished historical novels. Additional things she loves: ballet, Sicilian desserts (especially when she's homesick), ribbons, women authors and 19th century fashion plates.