A list of past and upcoming readings available here.
A list of published work and projects below, to be updated as and when the chance arrives:
Prose
Books
- Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
- (UK: 4th Estate, 2024)
- The Liar’s Dictionary
- (UK: William Heinemann, 2020)
- (US: Doubleday, 2020)
- Attrib. and Other Stories
- (UK: Influx Press 2017; 4th Estate 2024)
- (US: Anchor Books, 2021)
Chapbooks
- Lullaby, or, The Origin of Bats, Earthbound Poetry Series Vol. 1, No. 52 (Earthbound Press, Dec 2020)
- Collect, Yarn (Overwhere Books, July 2019)
- Frit (Sad Press, July 2017)
- Sketch, Annexe Introducing (Vol. 2, Summer 2013)
- Flatland, text commissioned for Emily Speed’s solo show at Tate Liverpool. Published as a limited edition booklet by Tate, designed by Small Print Studio (2021)
Contributions to Anthologies
- ‘Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily’ co-authored with Nell Stevens in Duets, ed. Tom Conaghan (Scratch Books, Oct 2024). Also featuring work by Jon McGregor with Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester with Tim MacGabhann, Jo Lloyd with Adrian Duncan, Zoe Gilbert with Jarred McGinnis, Leila Aboulela with Lucy Durneen, Anna Wood with Ruby Cowling, and David Rose with Roelof Bakker.
- ‘Et il divague ainsi’, All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue ed. Suzannah V. Evans (Guillemot Press, March 2023)
- ‘Fetch’, co-authored with Nell Stevens, Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions eds. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and Jessica J. Lee (Daunt Books, March 2023)
- ‘Bulk’, short story and interview in Reverse Engineering II ed. Tom Conaghan (Scratch Books, Nov 2022)
- ‘Theseid’, Praxis eds. Andrew Hodgson, Rosie Šnajdr and Chris Clarke (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Nov 2021)
- ‘Jellyfishing, or Reaching for Bryher’, Under the Influence anthology (gorse editions, 2021)
- ‘Scrimshaw’, The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 (Comma Press, 2020).
- ‘What (Not) To Do With Your Hands When You Are Nervous’, Seen From Here: Writing In the Lockdown eds. Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat (Unstable Object, June 2020) in support of the Trussell Trust.
- ‘Wilgefortis’, Outsiders anthology (3 of Cups Press, July 2020)
- ‘Redress’, Resist anthology (Comma Press, Oct 2019)
- ‘Time and Time Again’, Pursuit anthology (Canongate, October 2019)
- ‘On Streams’, A Room of My Own anthology (Royal Society of Literature, 2019)
- ‘Scrimshaw’, Still World’s Turning anthology (No Alibis Press, 2019)
- ‘Of Père Lachaise, On Business‘, We’ll Never Have Paris (Repeater Books, July 2019)
- ‘Fiaschetti’, TERRA COTTA (Emily Speed Bookworks, 2019)
- ‘Wilderness’, We Were Strangers anthology (Cōnfigō Press, 2018) — listed as one of Rough Trade’s Books of the Year 2018
- ‘FUN!’, Over There: A Queer Anthology of Joy (Pilot Press, 2018)
- ‘Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef’,The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (Penguin, 2018)
- ‘Swatch’, Best British Short Stories ed. Nicholas Royle (Salt, 2018)
- ‘The Flood and the Zookeeper’, Liberating the Canon (Dostoevsky Wannabe Press, 2018)
- ‘Sonant’, On Anxiety (3 of Cups Press, 2018)
- ‘Jungftak’, Not Here: a queer anthology of loneliness, Pilot Press (July 2017)
- ‘In Pursuit of the Swan at Brentford Ait’, Unreliable Guide to London (Influx Press, July 2016) — shortlisted for Shirley Jackson Award, Best Edited Anthology 2016
Contributions to Journals
- ‘Escape Room’, The London Magazine (March 2025)
- Stories ‘Mauvine’, ‘The Overwritten’ and ‘Iris’ published in Footnote Magazine: A Journal of Citations. Edited by George Upton and featuring work by ‘Pemi Aguda, Mattia Balsamini, Daniel Benson, Sarah Blais, A K Blakemore, Kevin Brazil, Joe Cruz, Jack Davison, Brian Dillon, Joe Gamble, Jack Johnstone, Nam Le, Eduard Sanchez Ribot, Feargal Sharkey, and John Sunyer. Issue 1, (forthcoming, November 2024)
- ‘Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily’ co-authored with Nell Stevens, appearing online in The Stinging Fly (October 2023)
- ‘Rostrum’, Granta 163 (April 2023)
- ‘[…] Digression as Method’, Source, Issue 107: ‘Signs’ (April 2022)
- ‘Cuvier’s Feather’, Chicago Review, Issue 65: 75th Anniversary Edition (University of Chicago, 2022)
- ‘Pelt’, Five Dials 51 (July 2019)
- As part of Generative Constraints, ‘Break Up Variations: An Annotated Score’ (Performance Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 2, Feb 2019)
- ‘Redress‘,Times Literary Supplement (July 2019)
- ‘Fiaschetti’, Prototype 1 (July 2019)
- ‘Cuvier’s Feather’, Chicago Review, Issue 62: Winter (University of Chicago, Dec 2018)
- ‘Tether’, Egress, Issue 1 (Little Island Press, 2018)
- ‘How, Telling‘, PEN Transmissions (2018)
- ‘Swatch’, Prufrock (Issue 13, Nov 2017)
- ”The Flood and the Zookeeper’, The Arrow Maker (Issue 21, 2017)
- ‘Bower Birds and the Blues’, Oh Comely (Summer, 2017)
- ‘Hourglass, Figured’, Somesuch Stories (Issue 3, August 2017)
- ‘Channel Light Vessel Automatic’, The Lonely Crowd (Issue 7, Summer 2017)
- ‘Whilings, or the inability to remember the context of a photograph’, Cambridge Literary Review (Issue 10: Marginalia, 2017)
- ‘Mischief‘, Wales Arts Review (Stories/Retold series, December 2016)
- ‘The Alphabet’, Hotel (Issue 1, June 2016)
- ‘Positive Feedback: A Game’, The Junket (Issue 15, September 2015)
- ‘Bs’, The Lonely Crowd (Issue 2, September 2015)
- ‘Rosette Manufacture: A Catalogue and Spotters’ Guide‘, 3:AM Magazine (May 2015)
- ‘Smote, or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You in Front of a Print by Bridget Riley‘, The White Review (April 2015) — shortlisted for The White Review Short Story prize 2015
- ‘Alight at the next‘, 3:AM Magazine (November, 2014)
- ‘Wings’, Visual Verse (Vol 2 Ch. 1, November 2014)
- ‘And Back Again’, Structo (Issue 12, 2014)
- ‘Spins‘, The White Review (April 2014) — shortlisted for The White Review Short Story prize 2014
- ‘Scutiform‘, Visual Verse (Vol 1 Ch. 1, November 2013)
- ‘Spines’, Ambit (Issue 214, 2013)
- ‘Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef’, Belleville Park Pages (No. 10, October 2013)
- ‘Untyping’, The White Review (No. 8, Summer 2013)
- Participant in Annexe Magazine’s collaborative project ‘Singing the Necessaries’, XZ#1 (Annexe, Spring 2013)
- ‘Sprechstimme [Minutes of a Meeting]‘, praxis (February 2013)
- ‘Moonlighting’, The South Circular (Issue 1, 2012)
- ‘Of Seeping and Draining’, Ambit (Issue 205, 2011)
- ‘Synaesthete, Would Like To Meet’, Night and Day (Issue 3: States of Mind, 2011)
- ‘Concision‘, London School of Journalism’s Microfiction Competition (Autumn 2011)
- ‘Platform’ featured on Prospect magazine website as a winner in the Franco-British Council 2011 short story prize.
- ‘Channel Light Vessel Automatic’, featured on the audio magazine 4’33”
- ‘Memorandum’, Chemical Imbalances (Issue 6, Spring 2011)
- ‘Search Terms’, Chemical Imbalances (Issue 3, Autumn 2010).
Poetry
- ‘with the morning,’ in Responses to “Forbidden Colours” (c.1988) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, ed. Richard Porter (Pilot Press, 2023). In support of Medical Aid for Palestine.
- ‘A List For Stilling’ available as part of Typoetry, an exhibition of poetry and graphic design taking place in the London Borough of Newham in spring 2022. Around thirty poems will be designed by the students at the University of Art and Design of Lausanne (ECAL), printed in large format and displayed in several areas of Newham.
- 3 poems, Modern Queer Poets (Pilot Press, 2019)
- ‘The Sea’s Better Plans’, a Möbius poem, Half-Pint Press (2019)
- Three Pieces: ‘Mislist’, ‘Rest’, ‘Slides, Spectating, Wings’, Glasfryn Project (September 2017)
- ‘Slough’, London Review of Books (Vol. 39 No. 16, August 2017)
- ‘Clementines in November’, Pain (Issue 1, Summer 2017)
- ‘Counting’ and ‘La Tour des Cèdres’, The Enchanting Verses (September 2016)
- ‘1785, Jacob Grimm’s Metrovoxpop’, (For Every Year, May 2015)
- ‘Concentrating, When One Ought Not’, Argument anthology (Oxunibooks, May 2015)
- ‘Broncia Koller-Pinell’, Kakania: an anthology of new works (Polimekanos, January 2015)
- ‘Concentrating, When One Ought Not’ featured on The Poetry School’s online CAMPUS as part of Dream Mechanics, convened by Tom Chivers (Summer 2014)
- Hackney Citizen poetry competition, 2011 (‘Cusp‘)
- ‘Writer’s Block’, The Dial (Spring, 2010)
- ‘With Hands On Wheels‘, The Literateur (Dec 2009)
- ’Gravity‘ — Christopher Tower
Other
- ‘Soft Play’, a new story commissioned and read for BBC Radio4’s Short Works and required to respond to current events in the news. First broadcast on 7th February 2025 and then available on BBC iPlayer.
- As part of the National Gallery’s Friday Lates events, joining Gallery Educator Fiona Alderton as she introduces work by Judith Leyster and Hendrick ter Brugghen, alongside responses from poets Sinnead Singson, Bella Weerasinghe and S J Fowler (January 2025).
- Speaking with students at Goldsmiths University as part of their Writers Centre event series, introduced by Amy Sackville (January 2025).
- Reading and conversation with Prof. Alex Pheby, thanks to Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts and Newcastle University (December 2024).
- November 2024: Participating as part of the British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin alongside writers Sarah Bernstein, Eliza Clark, Camilla Grudova, and K Patrick. The series, titled ‘Jam Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today: New Adventures in Subjectivity’, is chaired by Helen Oyeyemi and will feature workshops, discussions, and readings. More details here.
- Celebrating the publication of Gliff and discussing Ali Smith‘s new novel at the Southbank Centre, November 2024.
- Invited tutor with Granta Writers’ Workshop alumni, featuring an online Q&A and discussion in association with Professional Writing Academy.
- In conversation with Cristina Ward discussing fiction as part of Hay Festival Segovia, Spain, hosted by the British Council at Universidad Instituto de Empresa.
- Edinburgh International Book Festival event ‘The Long and the Short of It’, discussing Moderate to Good, Occasionally Poor with Benjamin Bateman. Hosted at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, 5pm: more details here.
- Book launch for Moderate to Good, Occasionally Poor at London Review of Books bookshop, hosted by So Mayer. More details about tickets available here, with podcast of conversation to follow.
- An online evening masterclass dedicated to ‘literary play’ with Word Factory and Cathy Galvin; more details available here.
- Collaborating with Peter Verhelst as part of the European Poetry Festival, hosted by the Flanders House in London. Also featuring work by Ruth Lasters and Vanessa Onwuemezi, Annemarie Estor and Laura Davis, Miruna Fulgeanu and Michael O’Mahony, Landa wo, Hannah Kaip and others.
- Presenting during Performance Studies International PSi29 conference Assemble! as part of Generative Constraints committee. Held at Senate House library; more information available here.
- Invited to chair the London launch of Miranda July‘s novel All Fours, hosted by the Southbank Centre. More details here.
- Celebrating the launch of Timothy Thornton’s new work Candles and Water (Pilot Press), with Ellen Dillon and Huw Lemmey.
- Appearing with Sarah Bernstein to discuss recent work with Max Liu, as part of ‘Fictions: Silence and Confusion’ at the Hay Festival. Tickets available here.
- Conversation with Carlos Yushimito and Valerie Miles, hosted by Fénix Theater as part of Hay Festival Arequipa, Peru.
- Participation in ‘Voicing Our Times: Craft and Form’ as part of Foyles’ Best of Young British Novelists Festival with authors Sarah Bernstein, Natasha Brown, Sophie Mackintosh and chaired by Toby Litt. Discussion centring on exploring the technical and formal conventions and inventions related to ‘the novel’, and the ways voice can be used to speak to our present moment.
- ‘A is for — ‘: keynote address for Watch Words: The Furnivals and Text (as) Art in the Long Sixties conference (April 2023)
- Collaboration with Maria Sledmere for the National Poetry Library’s Earthbound event (Oct 2022)
- Flanders Poetry Celebration: collaboration with poet Paul Demets for the European Poetry Festival, Southbank Centre curated by S J Fowler (June 2022)
- Working with Wignall & Moore to produce site-specific narrative texts and character-led guides for Warkworth Castle and English Heritage
- Short story ‘Ramble‘ commissioned for BBC Radio 4, read by John Lightbody, and produced by Becky Ripley (April 2022)
- Text and script commissioned as part of Emily Speed‘s solo show ‘Flatland’ for Tate Liverpool (Oct 2021 – Jun 2022). A reading of the work was produced by Alice Gilmour — available to listen on here — and a British Sign Language interpretation was provided by Drew Ledson.
- Contributed to runamok press’ The Poems in Verse on bandcamp, celebrating ten years of Peter Manson’s Mallarmé verse translations (Miami University Press, 2012). Other readers include Charles Bernstein, Tom Betteridge and Emilia Weber, Andrea Brady, cris cheek, Jimmy Cummins, Ellen Dillon, Ken Edwards, Matt Ffytche, Allen Fisher, William Fuller, Peter Gizzi, David Grundy, Dom Hale, Robert Kiely, Will Montgomery, Ron Nevett, Maggie O’Sullivan, Robin Purves, Rachelle Rahmé, Nisha Ramayya, Luke Roberts, Andy Spragg, Keith Tuma and Jo Lindsay Walton. All proceeds (after Bandcamp fees) go to the Poet’s Hardship Fund.
- Short story cycle Gambits commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featuring a fictional Essex village, follies, and chess. Broadcast throughout the winter 2021, the programmes were produced by Justine Willett with readers including Anton Lesser, Adrian Scarborough and Stephen Mangan.
- Working with Wignall & Moore to produce texts for the Ulster Transport Museum’s new Museum of Innovation (2021)
- ‘Scrimshaw’ read by Charlotte Ripley, as part of the BBC National Short Story Award 2020.
- An essay on Raymond Queneau’s 1958 Exercises in Style trans. Barbara Wright for Penguin’s ‘The Furthest A Book Has Taken Me‘ series (Aug 2020).
- ‘On Jotting: Ten Postcards’ for Arvon’s The Stories We Tell series (Feb 2020)
- Forward to Faber’s reissue of Brigid Brophy’s The Snow Ball (2020, orig. 1964)
- ‘Myth-making‘ — texts and narrative design for the Cuming Collection of natural and social history and new Heritage Centre, commissioned by the London Borough of Southwark. With Wignall & Moore, Fiona Williams and writer Nicholas Tufnell.
- ‘Grottofying’ — poet in residence for exhibition celebrating Alexander Pope and this grotto at Orleans House Gallery. With Wignall & Moore, Fiona Williams and writer Nicholas Tufnell.
- As part of Generative Constraints: ’Break Up Variations: An Annotated Score’, Performance Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Open Journal Systems, 2019). Published online. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21476/PP.2019.42227
- Short story ‘Moonlighting‘ on Radio 4’s Short Works programme, written and read by me (2019)
- Short story ‘Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good‘ on Radio 4’s Short Works programme, written and read by me (2018)
- Co-written with Deborah Brewis: ‘Writing as skin: Negotiating the body in(to) learning about the managed self‘, Management Learning, Vol 50, Issue 1 (Sage Publications, Jan 2019)
- ‘Span’, a commissioned collaboration with composer Tom Wilson. Performed by the Ben See group in the bascule chambers beneath Tower Bridge, part of the Totally Thames Festival curated by Iain Chambers (September 2016)
- Review of James Cummins’ prose-poetry, HIX EROS: 7 (August 2016)
- ‘The Civil Partnership’ collaborative poem sequence developed with Prue Bussey-Chamberlain, performed at Camaradefest and Interrobang Festivals (2014-15)
- Composed and performed ‘Changelings’ with Nick Murray, alongside Emily Berry & John Clegg, Anthony Vahni Capildeo & Jeremy Noel-Tod, Kirsty Irving & Harry Man, and Tim Atkins & Jeff Hilson as part of SJ Fowler‘s Enemies series (July 2014)
- ‘Exploding Dictionaries: an Exegetical Look at The Domesday Dictionary‘, online essay series for Influx Press’ Anti-Canon series (July 2014)
- Closet drama ‘Embark’ shortlisted for the Creative Responses to Modernism Competition, Centre for Modern Literature and Culture (May 2014)
- Live-reviewing durational performance through durational criticism for Exeunt (March 2014)
- Designing and delivering creative writing workshops for secondary schools and higher education institutions (2011–present)
- Member of the organizing committee behind Generative Constraints, the practice-based research conference, and on the editing panel for the resulting publication (2013–present)
- ‘Mother of all Parliaments’ commissioned by Royal Holloway, University of London for centenary event celebrating the life of Emily Wilding Davison (Summer, 2013)
- Staff advisor for Royal Holloway’s student-led undergraduate creative writing anthology (2013)
- Toddling consultant for Lee Jackson‘s Walking Dickens’ London (Shire General, 2013)
- ’Positive Feedback’ commissioned as part of performance series Lange Nacht der Langeweile (2013)
- Awarded a PenTales Hemingway Fellowship creative residency (2013)
- ‘Hang-Ups’ developed for a short interactive film installation with ShadowStage theatre company (2011)
- Awarded Bookbinding For Artists short course certificate, Central Saint Martins College (2011)
- Article on Reuben Martin, written for the Bernie Grant Arts Centre’s Great Book of Tottenham (2011)
- Bookbinding short course certificate from Central Saint Martins (2011)
- Contributor for if:book projects (2011)
- Short-listed for Harper-Wood Studentship (2011)
- Short story ‘Channel Light Vessel Automatic’ was developed by composer Steven Jackson into a collaborative piece as part of the Vessel exhibition during ‘Noise of Many Waters’, the Royal Northern College of Music’s showcase event (2011)
- Judge for Pighog Press’ Short Story Competition for writers of children’s fiction (2010)
- Various reviews for The Literateur and Fiction Unlimited online journals
- Series of sketches commissioned by Somethingelse Production Company for their show ‘Bedtime’, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2007)
- ‘Marks the Spot’, for Annexe.
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