My fiction pamphlet Waste Extractions is out now at Broken Sleep Books. Read a review of Waste Extractions here. My novel The Cremation Project, shortlisted for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize (2018) and longlisted for the Dzanc Books Fiction Prize (2018), is forthcoming with Bearded Badger. Individual chapters have appeared at: 3: AM Magazine and UEA New Writing. In 2020 I was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and won The Aleph Writing Prize. A new text, Service Providers, is forthcoming with Hem Press. 

I am currently working on a novel/hybrid text about waste, nature, regeneration + community. This activity is funded by an Arts Council DYCP Round 8 grant. Extracts from WASTE/D have appeared to date in Beir Bua Journal, Failed States journal, Tar Press, Sublunary Editions, Seen From Here: Writing in the Lockdown, Mega City Fictions and Otoliths, as well as in group shows Now it is permitted: 24 Wayside Pulpits curated by Bridget Smith, at Swedenborg House, 2016, and The Wastemakers on Cornucopia Street, curated by Ian Dawson, at Newhaven Art Space, 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                

 

Rereading Stein

My punctuation piece On Responding On Reading On Stein is one of four pieces from writers – also Alexander Mazey, Franco Cortese and Susie Campbell, responding to a 1978 feature in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, ‘Reading Stein’. The original piece gave poets three excerpts from Tender Buttons and asked them to reflect on their readings. Following this, curator Richard Capener asked writers to respond to these responses.

 

Broken Sleep Books 2022 Anthology

The Broken Sleep Books Anthology showcases the best writing from the press in 2022, featuring extracts from every publication, covering poetry, non-fiction and short fiction. Authors included: E. P. Jenkins, Azad Ashim Sharma, Sam Quill, Cai Draper, Bobby Parker, Trevor Ketner, Fiona Larkin, Samuel Tongue, Dean Rhetoric, J. H. Prynne, John Richardson, John Welson, David Spittle, Aaron Kent, Matthew Kosinski, Dide, SJ Fowler, Aimée Lê, George Sandifer-Smith, Colin Bancroft, Rochelle Roberts, Niall Bourke, Claire Trévien, Marie Lando, Len Lukowski, Katy Wareham Morris, U. G. Világos, John Greening, Amber Rollinson, Tom Snarsky, Nóra Blascsók, Scout Tzofiya Bolton, James Byrne, Omar Musa, Lucy Rose Cunningham, Cliff Forshaw, Robert Kiely, Stuart McPherson, Liam Bates, Andreea Iulia Scridon, Lucy Holme, Gita Ralleigh, Ella Sadie Guthrie, Andre Bagoo, Daniele Pantano, Taylor Edmonds, Kate Frances, James McDermott, Chris Laoutaris, Fokkina McDonnell, Caleb Parkin, Chrissy Williams, Taylor Strickland, Robert Bal, Kelly Davio, Abdul Kader El-Janabi, Ayşegül Yıldırım, Lauren Pope, Emma Filtness, Angela Cleland, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Mariah Whelan, Alexandra Melville, Chris Neilan, John Osborne, Briony Collins, Daniel Roy Connelly, Andrea Mason, Caleb Nichols, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Tania Hershman, Saskia McCracken, Kristian Doyle

 

The Wastemakers on Cornucopia Street

My text piece, Service Providers, is part of group show The Wastemakers on Cornucopia Street, at Newhaven Art Projects, curated by artist Ian Dawson. Exhibiting artists: John Walter, Donna Mitchell, Jasone Miranda Bilbao, Aqui Thami, Louisa Minkin, Sharmila Samant, Ben Parry, Compound 13 Lab, Migueltzinta Solis, Andrea Mason, Amanda Jobson, Ian Dawson.

 

Waste Extractions

Fiction Pamphlet Waste Extractions was published by Broken Sleep Books, 31 July, 2022. This manuscript, funded as part of my DYCP Arts Council Grant (2021), whilst standalone, represents a glimpse into some of the working practices that I am engaging with in production of the hybrid-text/novel WASTE/D.

 

Beir Bua Journal

A(Mendment), an extract from the Arts Council funded novel-in-progress, WASTE/D, is published at Beir Bua Journal, 3 Sept 2021.

 

UEA New Writing, 1 June, 2021

Novel extract 'SHE KNOWS THE CHAIRS ARE UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE SHE HAS TWO AT HOME' is published at UEA New Writing, 1 June, 2021.

 

3:AM Magazine

Novel extract: 'AND THEN NOTHING, BODY SPONGE, TEA-BAG' is published on 3:AM Magazine, 16 March 2021. 3:AM fiction editor Mark de Silva says: "There’s a special vitality to this work". Author Ben Pester says: "Yes! Enorme! Read this story to feel your heart beating again."

 

Manchester Fiction Prize 2020, announced February 2021

I was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize - short story category - 2020, alongside Edward Hogan, Bernadette McBride, Ian Dudley (winner), Neil Campbell and Hannah Donelon, judged by Tim Etchells, Nicholas Royle and Irenosen Okojie. Judges' comments: “A short story in kit-form fragments. Funny, compelling and there’s a beautiful gift in how the form disrupts narrative but, at the same time, creates new narrative possibilities".

 

Tar Press, March 2021

Touches is part of the inaugural Tar Press Twitter Fiction series, 2021, alongside Amit Chaudhuri, S J Fowler, Tom Jenks and John Johns. Tar Press editor Henry Johns says: "As much as a poem, or a story, Touches is a performance text which requires a great labour of patience and empathy".

 

The Aleph Writing Prize 2020

Ada & Carter Limited edition of 30 £6 Each edition is handmade & features a screen printed french fold cover, hand-sewn binding & numbered bellyband with a quote from the text: “It could start here, in this way, with this list of items stored in their loft between 1987 and 1997.” 18pp. 210x148mm. Limited to 30 editions. 10 with red binding. 20 with black binding. [TA030]

 

Sublunary Editions, 2020

Rashomon recycled verb story is published alongside Jay Merill's Poem on Gertrude Stein for the October 2020 Sublunary Editions subscriptions mail out.

 

Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown, 2020

SMILE, CLAP, DANCE, SING is included in Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown, a collection of stories, flash fiction, poems, autofiction and conceptual writing gathered during the April and May Covid-19 lockdown, bringing together UK-based writers, poets, performance makers and artists. Published in a PDF format by Unstable Object, an imprint launched by Etchells and Horvat for this occasion, the book is available to buy on a pay-what-you-choose basis, with 100% of proceeds to be donated to the Trussell Trust, a UK food bank charity.

 

Megacity Fictions, 2017

Touches, written in response to artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles piece Touch Sanitation, 1979-80, is extracted from novel-in-progress Waste/d.

 

Necessary Fiction, 2012

Black Dog is the featured short story on 9 May, selected by author, editor and Emerson College lecturer Steve Himmer.

 

Linguistic Hardcore, The Happy Hypocrite, 2008

Like The Toad, Ugly & Venomous features in the inaugural issue of The Happy Hypocrite, alongside pieces from Nick Thurston, Alexandre Singh, Lisa Robertson, Clunie Reid, Stewart Home, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Giles Eldridge, Douglas Coupland, Gerard Byrne, Paolo Arao, Farhard Ahrarnia, The Happy Hypocrite and Assemblage. Ed. Maria Fusco, pub: Bookworks, London

 

Frozen Tears II, 2004

Does She Squirt is published in Frozen Tears II. Ed. John Russell, pub: ARTicle Press, London

 

Corporate Mentality, 2003

My essay LANDFILL – Andrea + Philippe, pp. 112-117, included in this text by artist Alexandra Mir which focuses on the complex and ambiguous ways artistic production inhabits corporate processes, abandoning the autonomy of the artwork in order to elaborate resistant approaches to a world increasingly determined by commercial strategies and market concerns. Based on an archive (1995–2001) maintained by Aleksandra Mir, it presents a diverse spectrum of artists who take on business as site, as material, and as subject of their work. Eds: John Kelsey, Aleksandra Mir. Pub: Sternberg Press, New York