sam dodd



I work with land and literature. Landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, Operations Manager at the Poetry Translation Centre, experienced community worker, arts administrator, & writing mentor specialising in working class and female voices. From 2014-2024 I managed CityLife: Stories for Change, an intergenerational community life-writing project. I am a Trustee at Spread the Word writer’s charity.

I am also a writer, with surrealist work appearing in Lumpen: Journal of Working Class Writing; poetry and prose in multiple grassroots zines and magazines; and biographical pieces in community anthologies. My Substack series is called The Edgelands.

As a researcher I have received awards for my university research, presented at conferences, and published papers. My areas of interest include: writer development, widening access to the arts, information access, autoethnography, community engagement, radical & community histories, public & prison libraries, spatial justice, city farms, counter-mapping, land access, psychogeography; and participatory research.


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