Category is: Creativity
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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A queer punk day out at Jorvik Viking Festival 2025
Last weekend, I went to Jorvik Viking Festival for the first time.
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Brain food: short stories devoured while writing my own
A process diary about the material shaping my collection-in-progress
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Draw me like one of your French girls
On life drawing, learning to love my body and getting naked in my mate’s basement
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Two weeks alone in Valencia
In the first few days of this year, I did something I’ve never done before. I travelled alone to another country, and stayed there for two weeks. I’ve been away by myself before, but only ever within the UK, and for a day or two at a time. Never this far or this long.
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Getting LOST + FOUND
Late last year, I got into my sixth-hand little Toyota late at night, driving through freezing fog down a series of almost-empty motorways to get to my friend’s adorable witch cottage, light glowing in the front window of the narrow terrace at the end of the path.
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Found in drafts: I’ve got baggage (but I’m keeping it close)
On being scared, coping through preparedness and going to bed with my shoes on…
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The end is coming
Dark sky. Dark days. Dark nights. Or: marking the winter solstice with a video of my first ever performance with a live band…
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