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Emma Frankland in No Apologies

Notes from the Fringe

Last month, I packed a suitcase and boarded a train, heading back to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time since 2019.

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Zines

Zine-making for joy, resilience and resistance

A free zine for you from a session I led last week…

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A burning wolf sculpture during Solskin Festival 2025

Burn the wolf

A weekend at the second ever Solskin Festival

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Tarot

Six tarot cards for summer solstice

Heatwave-melted and pre-menstrual, plans for a collective solstice ritual with pals sent sideways by illness, I piled cushions on the floor, curled up with Cosmo and pulled six tarot cards (and then some bonus ones) for the six months between this solstice and next…

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Meet The World: Queer Desires

A conversation between Marylyn Tan, Rosie Garland and me…

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Like a little prayer

A process diary about recent reads on spirituality, sexuality, recovery from religious trauma, cults and kink…

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Jane, Fiona and Avadrian onboard the Conwy Pirate Ship in May 2025

A weekend at Conwy Pirate Festival

Avast, ye filthy landlubbers. Time to shiver me timbers, set sail and walk the plank…

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Dear Damsels anthology So Long As You Write, open to the first page of Jane's essay

F🤬ck (your) demons + find community

On finding and trusting my voice, coming out, being scared, being safe and being heard…

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Glowing keyboard by Soumil Kamar via Pexels

The internet isn’t supposed to be like this

“I can see you as you are and love you sight unseen and be lonely with you on the other side of a strange and beautiful square of glowing plastic that contains nothing less than the future.”

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Jane onstage with Avadrian Night and a BSL interpreter during a live performance at Autumn Equinox in September 2024

The dead, the divine and the diabolical

In 2024, I became the first ever writer-in-residence at Queer Amusements, a brand new queer arts festival in Blackpool. I spent the summer developing new writing, which I performed for the first time during a one-off live spoken word ritual at the Autumn Equinox, the dead, the divine and the diabolical. Six months on from that night, I’m sharing three of my favourite pieces from the show…

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