Category is: Writing

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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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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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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Forest image by Roman Datsiuk via Unsplash

Brain food: short stories devoured while writing my own

A process diary about the material shaping my collection-in-progress

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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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Jane Claire Bradley with her chapbook Lost + Found

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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Smiley backpack

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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Jane in Belfast in November 2023 for Outburst Queer Arts Festival

The time is now (f🤬ck perfectionism)

A message from a Belfast attic about not waiting

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