WRITING & EDITORIAL C.V.

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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

Academic papers

• ‘Grotesque Laughter since the Death of God’ The British Institute of Humour Studies Conference, Surrey University.
• ‘Credo Mutwa’s Women and the Search for Meaning’ Roehampton University Creative Reading and Viewing, Research and Theory for Creative Writers Unit. Tutor: Peter Jaeger.
• Portsmouth, The Corsetry Capital: Force for Feminism or Whiff of Desperation?’ Star & Crescent, UK in Pompey Writes: The Best of Star & Crescent So Far

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]
• Green Mangoes – primate conservation short story inspired by Arthur Hunt and the Vervet Monkey Sanctuary, Limpopo, South Africa. [https://vervet.za.org/]
• 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

• CultureKiddo.blogspot.co.uk

 TV/Scripts

• The Warehouse Co-written pilot episode for the BBC Trans Comedy Award competition with Beth Granville
• Kiko & Eve, animation screenplay.
• Marylin Monroe, short film screenplay.

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

• Tips, Tricks, Techniques – Characterisation & Comedy, for the The University of Portsmouth
• Tips, Tricks, Techniques – On Theme, for The University of Portsmouth
• Tips, Tricks, Techniques – Playing with Words, for The University of Portsmouth
• Tips, Tricks, Techniques – Powers of Observation, for The University of Portsmouth
• Tips, Tricks, Techniques – Scenes & Life Stories, for The University of Portsmouth
• Writing Project with Publishing Series of Lectures- for The University of Portsmouth
• Poetry, for The University of Portsmouth
• 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