A list of past and upcoming readings available here.
A list of some work and projects below, to be updated as and when the chance arrives:
Prose
Books
- Moderate to Good, Occasionally Poor (4th Estate, forthcoming 2024)
- A Folly (4th Estate, forthcoming 2025)
- The Liar’s Dictionary (William Heinemann, July 2020) — Betty Trask Award; shortlisted, Desmond Elliott prize
- Attrib. and other stories (Influx Press, July 2017) — James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Republic of Consciousness Prize
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.
Contributions to Anthologies
- ‘Et il divague ainsi’, Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue ed. Suzannah V Evans (Guillemot Press, March 2023)
- ‘Fetch’, co-authored with Nell Stevens. In Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions eds. Rowan Hisayago 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) — shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020
- ‘What (Not) To Do With Your Hands When You Are Nervous’, Seen From Here 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 Pere Lachaise, On Business’, We’ll Never Have Paris (Repeater Books, July 2019)
- ‘Fiaschetti’, TERRA COTTA (Emily Speed Bookworks, 2019)
- ‘Wilderness’, We Were Strangers anthology (Configo Press, 2018) — Rough Trade 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)
- ‘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
Journals
- ‘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)
- ‘Connect’, 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). Also published as hyperlinked fiction at www.searchterms.tumblr.com
Poetry
- ‘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 of 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 poetry prize (2005)
Other
- ‘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 (forthcoming, 2023)
- 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 this page — and a British Sign Language interpretation was provided by Drew Ledson.
- 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)
- 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 Constraint: ‘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 Chamberlain, performed at Camaradefest and Interrobang Festivals (2014-15)
- Composed and performed ‘Changelings’ with Nick Murray, alongside Emily Berry & John Clegg, Vahni Capildeo & Jeremy Noel-Tod, Kirsty Irving & Harry Man, and Tim Atkins & Jeff Hilson as part of SJ Fowler‘s Auld Enemies project (July 2014)
- ‘Exploding Dictionaries: an Exegetical Look at The Domesday Dictionary’, Anti-Canon online essay series for Influx Press (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)
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