I work with land and literature. Landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, Ops Manager at the Poetry Translation Centre, experienced community worker, arts administrator, & writing mentor.
I am a writer, with surrealist work appearing in Lumpen: Journal of Working Class Writing; poetry and prose in multiple grassroots zines and journals; and biographical pieces in community anthologies. My Substack series is called The Edgelands.
As a researcher I have received awards for my research and published papers. My areas of interest include: writer development, access to the arts, information access, radical & community histories, public & prison libraries, spatial justice, city farms, counter-mapping, land access, and psychogeography.
From 2014-2024 I managed CityLife: Stories for Change, an intergenerational community life-writing project; and from 2022-2025 I served on the board of Spread the Word writer’s charity
Please navigate to the menu to find out more about each of my areas of work.
Last week I blogged about my new Substack series, The Edgelands. I just released my first post, about the dereliction of the self, our bodies against the backdrop of derelict buildings, hostels, belonging, and the liminality of train stations. Click on the button below to access it, and think about hitting subcribe, too. Thank you!
sam dodd 
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