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YMYA Diaries: The Summer I Watched Nothing But Horror Movies
They aren’t perfect movies, and parts certainly frustrate me, but I can’t say the delirium of fear and brutality and, yes, horror, didn’t consume me. I could feel their influence breathing hotly down my throat as I sharpened lines in the book. I pushed a little harder, indulged some more in the dark.
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ymya diaries: you make yourself another
I’ve been struggling for a while to articulate I’ve been feeling lately, how to pin down this fleeting, transmutable emotion that comes with a dramatic shift but here it is; things are in bloom. If you’re new here, and you probably are, welcome! If you want an idea for the feel of this blog, I’d…
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In Print: Death & The Maiden
I can’t believe I forgot to talk about this here but… well, I wrote a book. Actually, I wrote two books, a book of short stories which I put together over 5 years and is still going through the editorial process to make it perfect and polished and beautiful, and a little book of pop…
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Round Up: Not Drowning, But Waving
The world has turned and I am still finding a balance. The world has turned. I am finding a balance. The world has turned, and I’m not sure what balance is. It has been a long year since I last updated here, I am notoriously terrible for keeping this up. Things happen in avalanche, and…
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In Print: Corvid Queen & Everything Else From The Year That Wasn't
It has been rather a long time since I last checked in. It’s been a hell of a year (or two) and I have not always had the language or the energy to keep up these correspondences. Additionally, I just didn’t publish a lot in that time – which isn’t to say I wasn’t writing.…
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body talks: just a quick note to say, I am not quite doing okay
Hello lovelies, I’m sorry I’ve been so distant lately, I’ve not been doing too well. I would have written something sooner but really, there are only so many ways one person can say I am sick again. So, I am sick again. Two hours into Monday morning my boss sent my home from work. I…
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Round Up: The Agony and the Ecstasy (+ In Print: Nosebleed Club & Closet Cases)
Hello, my loves. It’s been a while. I can only apologise. There has been a lot going on irl these last few months – my chronic illness worsened, I went on dates, I got some rejections and a fair few acceptance letters, I lost my phone (which is why last month’s tarot poems got scrapped…
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Published
Books Death & the Maiden: Odes to the Dead Girls of Pop Culture, Alien Buddha Press 2022 fiction Warning Lines #3: A Light In The Garden Arachne Press Solstice Shorts 2021: Asteraceae Werewolves Versus: #9 “Werewolves vs. Suburbia”: Night-Shift Delicate Friend #4 “Mythfuckers”: Rural Folklore (nsfw) Half Mystic #9 “Synesthesia”: Notes On Divinity Corvid Queen: Aries …
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In Print: The Isolation of Recovery (The Tired Girl Society)
Darlings, it’s raining hard in the middle of June and the grey outside is infectious. As Anne Sexton once said: It is June. I am tired of being brave. This week has been something of a struggle, even if I’m typing this on a Wednesday afternoon. I feel as though I’ve been losing grip of…
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Body Talks: There's Nothing Poetic About Needles in the Back of Your Skull
I too am sick of the body. I too am sick of being a body, am sick of being sick about my body, – Meghan Dunn, from “Response, Years Later, to Two Male Poets I Overheard Discussing How Sick They Were of Women’s Poems about the Body,” published in MUSE/A The moment I got the…