Feature article in Mslexia
“…I had to face the fact that unless I changed something about my writing practice, I would slip back innto old routines and encounter similar outcomes…” I was recently commissioned […]
Creative nonfiction in NYC literary magazine
“Holding such details can feel like fumbling with a glass bottle, catching it by the neck before it smashes on the concrete floor. The hairs on my own neck standing […]
Poetry about invisible illness and the world of work
No castle tower, no benevolent fey, no intrepid ratscreeping across laps of revellers, fast asleep—onlya young woman who can’t get up in the morning can’t take responsibility for her own life—(un)just sleeps […]
Writing for Missing Perspectives about the idealisation of girlhood
“I understand the desire to romanticise certain stages of life, and there is something beautiful about the mythology that surrounds girlhood: the sense of possibility, and that a whole life […]
Writing for The Guardian about hair dye, mortality, and an entertaining friendship moment
Back in The Guardian, this time with a personal tale of crisis, comedy, and poor aesthetic outcomes. I dyed my hair spontaneously – and this prompted unexpected emotions, as well […]
Creative nonfiction published in Hindsight Journal
“There is a sense of waiting in Cambridge. The small English city swells and shrinks with the migration of students and tourists, who lend pace to the foot traffic coursing […]
New academic writing in Literature/Film Quarterly
“The film purports to be a biopic: from its all-encompassing title to its quoting of Plath’s poetry, it implies its own veracity and consequent value as a biographical depiction of […]
Article for Business Insider on letter-writing and family
“…what was perhaps overall so significant about this friendship, for me, was that here was a fully cognisant, older man, self-aware and open to communicating — but only via letters, […]
Writing about the embodied humanity at the heart of good Christmas films for Reader’s Digest
This December, I had the chance to write for Reader’s Digest about Christmas films – and, specifically, the question of what makes a good queer Christmas film. As a bisexual […]
Longlisted for poetry award
In the spirit of the award, I’ll keep things short! My poem ‘Natural Appetites’ was recently longlisted from among over 1,000 entries for the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2023. The […]
