Selected Writing
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‘Staying with the Trouble’, Critical Hits, eds. Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon, (Graywolf Press and Serpent’s Tail, November 2023)
‘Escaping Myself’, ELLE, June 2023
‘Where Flesh Meets Stone’, Medusa, Yoyo Munk, Hurtwood Press
(pictured, bottom of page, image courtesy of Hurtwood Press)
‘Becoming Cyclonic’, Somesuch Stories 6, Flux
(title page, pictured)
‘A Bird’s Eye View, A Split Screen, A Reflection’, text co-authored with Philomena Epps. Commissioned by Axis Web to accompany Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth’s 2021 film, The Mechanics of Love, live streamed on 16/12/21
‘Pierrot Lunaire: Celestial Bodies’; ‘Mavra: Dress Codes’, Royal Opera House programmes
‘The Struggle Never Ends’, Inque, issue 1
‘Why We Still Love Reading About Mad Women’, Penguin.com
‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation: how Ottessa Moshfegh’s book pre-empted lockdown’, Penguin.com
‘More stars than grains of sand: how reading the Stoics helped me through a family crisis’, Penguin.co.uk
‘When it comes to capitalism, the virus is greed’, panmacmillan.com
‘I Can Speak to Dad – But I May Never Hold Him Again’, The Sunday Times
‘if it had a tongue, it would be rough’, Margate Queer Writers Anthology
(detail from poster pictured)
‘Alzheimer’s Turned My Sense of Responsibility Upside Down’, ELLE, July 2020
‘On Margate Sands’, Somesuch Stories 4, Redemption
‘My Favourite Utopia’, Somesuch Stories. (also printed on benches in Los Angeles as part of a Mother + Somesuch campaign in March 2019)
Review of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, The White Review, Sept 2019
‘Reconsider the Lobster’, Elephant, Aug 2019
‘Marlene’s Sweet Nothings’, Orlando: Beyond the Body, issue 3
‘A New Cuntology: Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker’, Orlando
‘Heathcliff, it’s me’, Shell Like
‘Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina on why we need to protest more than ever’, Harper’s Bazaar
‘Mothwater’ and ‘Have You Wanked Over Me Yet?’, Momma Tried, issue 2
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