Motherhood and Haunting: writing and research

With my co-editors, we are launching a Visceral Bodies Special Issue of Studies in the Maternal Journal (out now)! This Special Issue...

I'm thrilled to have my poem, Familiar , featured in t'ART's winter edition of their online magazine. It's a poem I've worked on,...

I'm excited to be part of the wonderful line-up at the London Conference in Critical Thought, Greenwich University, 28th-29th June: "an...

Issue 2, the Roots issue, of the gorgeous and invaluable magazine Motherlore, which brings together writing on 'care, mothering,...

I wrote a poem for the wonderful, and very necessary, Dx: Diagnosis and Writing website. Dx: Diagnosis and Writing seeks to publish a...

I'm thrilled to be running a writing workshop, Life-writing and the Ghost, at this wonderful event coming up on 7th July 2023 at...

What feels like forever ago, summer 2021, I had the privilege of taking part in the Critical Poetics Summer School, Nottingham Trent...

This week Lina Hakim and I presented part of an ongoing conversation we've been having around themes of motherhood, creativity, play and...

I'm thrilled to announce that I am co-organising a symposium at Kingston University with fellow PhD student Anna Argirò. This two-day,...

I'll be one of the speakers at this free event being run by Kingston University's Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, on May...

I'm thrilled to have my piece, Failure: the Ghost and the Mother, published in the special issue of Alluvium Journal dedicated to papers...

This Thursday and Friday, 2nd-3rd Sept, I'll be taking part in the BACLS-WHN 2021 Virtual Conference. I'll be part of a panel on Futures...

This fascinating collection of essays and creative works (and hybrids, like mine!) exploring motherhood/mothering experiences in/of...

I was so thrilled to receive a copy of Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders (part of the Routledge Studies in...

I'm so excited to be involved in this (free, online!) event on the theme of failure, in particular its relation to temporalities of care....

So, today I was meant to be taking part in the Writers Centre Kingston event on Hauntology, but given the current UK lockdown the event...

I'm excited be sharing some of my creative life-writing work on motherhood and haunting at the Hauntology themed November Writers'...

I was so thrilled to contribute a piece to this forthcoming book on motherhood experiences in/of medicine. This anthology will be out in...

If you'd like to hear the (second version of the) piece I wrote for the Writers' Centre Kingston event on 'literary health' on 10th Dec...

This December I'll be taking part in an event titled Literary Health : on writing the body, organised by Writers' Centre Kingston...