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Fiction
Books
- Octomorphosis – The Little Book of Unrealist Stories inspired by the art of Jon Everitt – Contributing Editor.
- Portsmouth Fairy Tales for Grown Ups. Contributing Editor. Applied and received Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England. [facebook.com/portsmouthfairytales] Out now in ebook or paperback
Portsmouth Fairy Tales book cover image by Jon Everitt
Portsmouth Fairy Tales Promenade Performance map by Port & Lemon
Anthologies
- Pompey Writes: The Best of Star & Crescent So Far
My feature in this anthology is entitled Portsmouth, The Corsetry Capital: Force for Feminism or Whiff of Desperation?’ Star & Crescent, UK
Short Stories
- Irukandji Roulette – travel writing short story featured in the short story collection Day of the Dead and performed at ‘Valentine’s Day Massacre’ & ‘Premature Articulation’ [two events for Portsmouth BookFest 2016]
- Christmas cranberries, ainsley-ts and a wooden fork – erotic short story for Skin Two Magazine
- The Meat Market – short story read out at Brixton Bookjam
- Lost in Chefchaouen – travel writing short story read at Spark London
- The Hardware Store – short story read at The Erotic Book Club [bokship.com]
- Horse Riding with a Dominatrix – Pop-Up Literary Salon [Evening compere and reading at Club Pedestal, in the crawling zone]
- Flash Fiction – Open Pen ‘War of the Words’ [Hackney, London, OpenPen.co.uk]
Blog
TV
- The Warehouse Co-written pilot episode for the BBC Trans Comedy Award competition with Beth Granville
Non-Fiction
Features
- ‘London and the Grotesque’ World Literature Today, USA
- ‘The Coral Rangers.’ Sport Diving Magazine, Australia
- ‘An art dealer’s perspective: Rene Gimpel on Hirst vs. Hockney, Tracey Emin & grown up art’ CultureKiddo
- ‘Walking with the Wounded, Private JacoVan Gass on why he’s not taking a gold fish to the North Pole’ Playgirl UK
- ‘Duchess of Cornwall to be Figurehead of English Wine’ Decanter
- World Wine Award Quiz (Alsace + Chardonnay + Champagne + Australia) Decanter
- ‘Fetish Fashion vs. Haute Couture’ Von Gutenberg Blog
- ‘London’s Luxury Escapism’ Murooj Magazine
- ‘Enrique Former of Marques de Caceres’ Decanter
- ‘Notting Hill’ LateXtra Magazine
- ‘James Haskell, Naked on the Roof’ Playgirl Magazine UK
- Les Dieux du Stade Playgirl Magazine UK
- Interview with Lemar Playgirl Magazine UK
- ‘The Arvon Foundation & writing the novel’ CultureKiddo
- Q&A with Aita Ighodaro author of Sin Tropez, Playgirl Magazine UK
- Interview with Victoria Fox author of Hollywood Sinners, Playgirl Magazine UK
- ‘French Laundry Pops up in London’ Decanter
- ‘Ben Eine & A Rebel’s Career Path’ Playgirl Magazine UK
- ‘Eating your way to homesickness’ International Association for Literary Journalism
- ‘Helen’s Typhoon’ Playgirl Magazine UK
- ‘Why we launched Playgirl in the UK’ InPublishing
- ‘Impure London’ Quintessentially Magazine
- ‘Men are thieving our Corsets’ (comedy column) Skin Two Magazine
- ‘Rise of the Barbie Doms’(comedy column) Skin Two Issue 62
- Interview with Abigail Greydanus, Latex Designer from LA, Skin Two Issue 62
- ‘I’m not a politician!’ Drag Queen Lilley White, CultureKiddo
- ‘Wigs, Superman and Rope Bondage; undercover at the London Fetish Weekend Ball’ Skin Two Magazine
- ‘Winter Scents’ Murooj Magazine
- ‘Shoes to Die For’ Stuart Thom, Footwear Designer of Ainsley-T from Milan, Skin Two Magazine
- Interview with Louis Fleischauer, film and costume leatherwear designer AMF Korsets from Berlin, Skin Two Magazine
- ‘The Erotic Chair’ Skin Two Magazine
Skin Twos
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Plays
- ‘A Day, A Life’ – Staged at the Corpus Christi Cambridge Playroom
- ‘Clean Conscience’ – Entered into Chesil Theatre 150th Anniversary 10X10
- ‘Beyond a Fairy Tale’ – Staged at the Cambridge Playroom
- ‘When Three Strings Make a Rope’ – shortlisted for the London Writing Competition.
Workshops/Conferences/Lectures
- ‘Grotesque Laughter since the Death of God’ The British Institute of Humour Studies Conference, Surrey University.
- Erotic Literature Workshop for Portsmouth University, Creative Writing Department
- Speaker at Portsmouth University’s lecture on Publishing, Marketing and Making your work part of literary festivals.
- ‘Sir Walter Raleigh, Kanye West, Lonely Planet and Nelson Mandela’ comparative lecture on love poetry, travel writing and speech writing from the scaffold/courtoom, for Surrey University English Lit undergrads.
- ‘Dickens’ Concepts’ for the London Language Centre
- ‘Literature’s Marmite’ writing workshop for the Lovedean writers on how to avoid writing Bad Sex Award worthy scenes.
- ‘The Art of Blogging’ workshop for Portsmouth University undergraduates.
- ‘Alexander McQueen & an introduction to British Fashion’ London Language Centre
Podcasts
- Express FM 97.3 Culture Show with James Sandy & Dave Allen. Features the writers Tessa Ditner, Matt Wingett and Diana Bretherick, broadcast Monday 27th October 2014, available as a podcast from http://kingofthebuttons.podbean.com/e/towards-the-point-series-4-show-2/
Art Reviews
- ‘Powers of Manipulation’ Tim Shaw (solo exhibition) at the Riflemaker Gallery, London (as my pseudonym Eeny Meeny Miny Mo) www.aqnb.com
- ‘Eggs & Keys on Toast’ David Shrigley (solo exhibition) at the Hayward Gallery, London (as Eeny Meeny Miny Mo) www.aqnb.com
- ‘Impress Me’ She Doesn’t Care at the EB&Flow Gallery, London (as Eeny Meeny Miny Mo) www.aqnb.com
- ‘Eye Sweeteners’ Remote Control at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (as Eeny Meeny Miny Mo) www.aqnb.com
- ‘Satellite String’ Bertille Bak (solo exhibition) at Nettie Horn Gallery, London (as Eeny Meeny Miny Mo) www.aqnb.com
- ‘Endangered Knowledge’ Palm Leaf Architecture of the United Arab Emirates at The Royal Geographical Society, London (as Eeny Meeny Miny Mo) www.aqnb.com
- Selling Sex at SHOWStudio, London skintwo.co.uk
- Art Erotica at Cork Street Open Exhibition, London culturekiddo.blogspot.co.uk
- Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasure, 33 Portland Place, London
- Art at The Last Tuesday Society
Writing Competition Judging
Short Story Competition Judge – The Portsmouth Short Story Competition 2016 and 2017
Theatre & Film Reviews
- Cause Célèbre at the Old Vic, London
- ‘Shakespeare Milkshake’ at Arts Theatre, London
- Madame Bovary at The Rosemary Branch Theatre, London
- The Shoemaker’s Holiday at The Actor’s Church, Covent Garden, London
- Du Goudron et des Plumes at the Barbican, London
- House of Tolerance at Ciné Lumière, Institut français, London
- The People Pile Studio Event by The People Pile at London Studio Centre, London
- Gruntlers at Azerbaijani House, London
- Nuit Demonia at The Moulin Rouge, Paris
- Scented by Darkbloom Theatre at the Frameless Gallery, London
- Paper Wings by the Beehive Theatre Company at The Space, London
- Life’s a Drag featuring Drag Queen Cookie at Cellar Door, London
- ‘The Tarantino of Choirs’ Our Lady J at Soho Theatre, London
- Orpheus in the Underworld by the Royal College of Music at the Britten Theatre, London
- Public Interest by Clever by Clever at the New Diorama Theatre, London
- The Biting Point at Theatre 503, London
- Kojo at Soho Theatre, London
- Baadinya at The Space, London
- Pawnography at The Rose Theatre, London
- More or Lesque/Major Suttle-Tease at Volupte Lounge, London
- Agent Lynch and Friends at Studio 64, London
- Brad Channer at Jewel Bar, London
- ‘A jackal and a diva on stage’ Pistol & Jack at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
- The Folly Mixtures at Volupte Lounge, London
- Better than Sex by Robert B Suda, London
- Wam Bam Club at Cafe de Paris, London
- Hocus Pocus at Proud Cabaret, London
- Miranda at Tara Arts, London
- London Alternative Fringe Festival Launch Show at Madame Jojos, London
- East End Cabaret at Carnivalesque, London
