Writing

Recent Publications

The Edgelands – Substack

A series called The Edgelands can be found over on my Substack – part of which was produced in response to a writer’s residency (see below). This explores different dimensions of my own marginal lived experiences and relates them back to policy decisions, community narratives, storytelling, resistance, activism, countermapping, archiving, land justice and spatial justice; and the inhabitation and navigation of public spaces like libraries, city farms, food growing spaces, alleyways, disused railway lines, derelict buildings, living maps, and hospitals; plus social systems like the welfare system, the healthcare system, housing, and foster care.

Writer-in-Residence

In 2022 I held a writer’s residency at the House of Annetta, a social centre in Spitalfields supporting land reform and spatial justice, as part of their experimental programme for hyper-local writers and artists to develop their practice. I focussed on themes of edgelands, uninhabitable spaces, shared spaces, walking, map-hacking, psychogeography, which bodies belong where, land reclamation, and underrepresented stories. Click here for more.

Community Biographies

I have produced five biographies for East End community elders, all published through the intergenerational life writing project that I manage called CityLife Stories. Click here to learn about the lives of Denise Arbiso, George Freeman, Ellen Shrimpton and John Wiggett.

Editing

I have been an Editor since 2014, bringing almost 100 autobiographical and biographical short stories up to publishable standard, and I am Co-Editor on two anthologies of community writing. I use CIEP recommended rates – to hire me freelance, please get in touch.

Research

For my research publications click here, and my blog can be found here.