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I'm a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance.

 

The author of eleven books (some co-written with AI that I have coded), I have also created digital narratives and public art projects, as well as writing, directing and performing solo and collaborative works.

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I'm an arts activist, and mentor for emerging and established writers.

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I have a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.

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I'm also a university teacher, editor, and illustrator.

Awards:

  • 2014 The Expansionists residency


  • 2014 Women in Publishing New Venture Award for @read_women


  • 2015 Gladstone Library, scholarship/residency


  • 2016-20: CHASE-funded scholar for my PhD


  • 2016/17 Writer in Residence, Maynooth University, Ireland 
2017 Edgehill Prize shortlisting for Vertigo

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2017 Arts Council England grant for Seed-story.com

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2017 UK Arts Foundation Fellow in Literature


  • 2018 Anthony Burgess centenary fellowship, University of Manchester


  • 2019 Webby Award Honoree for Seed-story.com


  • 2019 6-month CHASE-funded intra-PhD placement UEA Beyond Criticism (UEA)


  • 2019 Lovie Award Honoree for Seed.story.com


  • 2020 Covid Response Award, Arts Council England for @zinesinthedark


  • 2021 Markievicz Award, Arts Council Ireland

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2021 Centre Culture Irelandais residency

  • 2022 residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

  • 2022 Literature Bursary, Arts Council Ireland

Prize Judging:

  • Goldsmiths Prize (2016).


  • Galley Beggar Press (2018)

  • Scottish Book Trust (2019)

  • Desperate Literature (2022).


Criticism/Journalism:

I have written literary and cultural criticism for The Irish Times The New Statesman, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and others.

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Editing:

  • I have been a Contributing Editor at 3:AM magazine, and Catapult.co.

  • I have guest-edited two issues of Hamish Hamilton’s Five Dials.

  • Under the Influence, the essay collection I commissioned and edited, was published by gorse editions in 2021.

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Activism:


  • I founded and ran the Twitter campaign @read_women (2014-18) which has been covered by international press, inspired parallel movements worldwide, and was described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers.” I received the 2014 New Venture Award from Women in Publishing (UK) for my work on the campaign.

  • I am co-founder of the Warwick University Prize for Women in Translation.

  • I currently run @no_entryarts, also on Twitter, a campaign challenging access problems for older emerging writers and artists.


 

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