Writing

EXPERIENCE in Caps Period, work-in-progress.

‘Introduction.’ In M. John Harrison. Settling the World. London: Comma Press, forthcoming 2019.

‘Free Man In Paris.’ In We’ll Never Have Paris. Edited by Andrew Gallix. London: Repeater Books, 2019.

‘Experiment.’ In Routledge Companion to Contemporary Literary Fiction. Edited by Robert Eaglestone. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

A Personal Anthology – Jennifer Hodgson
May 2018
I dream-edited an anthology of my favourite short stories for this sweet series.

Sixties secretary turned avant-gardist
May 2018
An essay about the weirdness of editing a long-dead writer from a camping table in my sister’s old bedroom in Hull.

I did the Momus Questionnaire for Minor Literatures.
March 2018

The Unmapped Country 
And Other Stories
January 2018
The ‘lost’ short stories and fragments of the radical 1960s writer, Ann Quin. Read more here.

Seduced by the edge: the unconventional life and writing of Ann Quin
The New Statesman
January 2018

On Chris Kraus’ “After Kathy Acker”
The White Review
October 2017

On the Exaggerated Reports of the Demise of the British Novel (with Patricia Waugh)
The White Review Anthology September 2017

Interview with Zadie Smith
The White Review [read an extract here]
No. 15, December, 2015

Voices in Your Head
Mslexia
March 2015

How do writers find their voices?
Guardian (print & digital)
23 August 2014

Introduction to “Every Cripple Has His Own Way of Walking” by Ann Quin
Music and Literature
August 2014

On the Exaggerated Reports of the Demise of the British Novel (with Patricia Waugh)
The White Review
Spring 2013

The Future of British Fiction (with Patricia Waugh)
Review of Contemporary Fiction
No. 3 (2013)

Interview with Jim Crace
Review of Contemporary Fiction
No. 3 (2013)

Afterword to The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid Brophy
Coelacanth Press, 2012

Review of C by Tom McCarthy
Review of Contemporary Fiction
No. 3 (2010)

Academic

Essay: Writers’ Inner Voices
States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness
Wellcome Collection, 2016

Essay: Experiment
Routledge Companion to Contemporary Literary Fiction
Routledge, 2018

Essay: Such a Thing as Avant Garde Has Ceased to Exist: The hidden legacies of the British experimental novel
Twenty-first Century Fiction: What Happens Now
Palgrave, 2013