Fiona Glen

–– writer –– artist –– editor ––


~fresh work out with ~ CWYR zine, Strings ~

Mark

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Publications

2024 – ‘missed connections’, poem inspired by AI autotranscription misunderstandings, CWYR Zine 
2024 – unflock’, four-part experimental poem, Strings 1: dreams jangling with lost connections 
2024 – ‘Arrested Octopus’, art writing / experimental writing, Caesura anthology, Pala Press
2023 – ‘strawberry squid’ + ‘insatiable wriggler’, Brilliant Vibrating Interface, an anthology of queer poetry, SPAM Press
2023 – ‘Being is a tender strength’, art writing, Prototype 5 anthology, Prototype Press
2023 – ‘THE FLESH, THE MESH, THE MUSHROOM’, collaborative essay with Nina Hanz, MAP Magazine
2023 – ‘As Silica’, poem, Eight Fires anthology, Dark Mountain
2023 – ‘Evolving Food Traditions’, conversation with Maia Magoga for ACV Magazine, Tradition
2023 – ‘the cat which is wild, savage, or of the woodlands’, creative prose, FDBNHLLLTTFMOURNING, Sticky Fingers
2023 – ‘Vergankelijkheidswake’ / ‘Guarding Transience’, drawings with Miek Zwamborn + poetry, De Gids
2023 – ‘Palettes of the Gods’, art writing/essay, My Daughter Terra anthology, ed. Nina Hanz, Plaintiff Press
2022 – Mycoglossia, poetry pamphlet in collaboration with Nina Hanz, HVTN Press
2022 – ‘She is the knot that always slips’, prose poem, Daisyworld Magazine Issue 005: Dangerous Depths
2022 – ‘www.dreamoracledivine.xyz’, experimental text, FDBNHLLLTTFPARODY, Sticky Fingers
2022 – feature on Libby Heaney, CLOT Magazine
2022 – interview with Howardena Pindell, Twin Magazine
2022 – ‘Forget the Metaverse; It’s Time for Artists to Enter the ‘Mutaverse’, ArtReview
2022 –
‘On Alberto Balsam’, poetry, You’ve Got So Many Machines, Richard!, an Aphex Twin anthology, Broken Sleep
2022 – ‘Through Hagstones’, drawing, Blue House Journal: Stone
2022 – seawitch, I watch you’, experimental essay, SPAM Plaza
2021 – Inscribing the Devil Fish’, essay, 3:AM Magazine
2021 – ‘membrane exchange’,  The Digest Reader, zine supported by TACO!
2021 – ‘wolfish / this heart is’, poetry, FDBNHLLLTTFNOCTURNAL, Sticky Fingers
2021 – Yeast’ + ‘Headtail’, poetry, Tentacular Magazine
2021 – Grinding, slicing, tearing’, experimental fiction, DreamsTimeFree: Soft Tissue, TACO!
2021 – Meat Dreaming’, experimental drawing and writing zine, Sticky Fingers
2021 – ‘(un)like death warmed up’, essay, Dark Mountain 20: Abyss
2021 – ‘SLIMY, STICKY, SWEET’, essay and video (from conference presentation), SPAM Plaza
2021 – As Syrup’, poetry, AWW-STRUCK, Poem Atlas
2021 – ‘Three Poems’, FDBNHLLLTTFHORROR, Sticky Fingers
2021 – Intertitles’, experimental writing anthology review, MAP Magazine
2021 – Leaves, alive and otherwise’, essay, Still Point Journal
2020 – Sharing Grounds: A Commonplace’, review, 3:AM Magazine
2020 – Contagion Closer to Animal’, poetry collaboration with Nina Hanz, ARC
2020 – ‘Distant Tenderness: Molly Morphew’, review, ArtDaily
2020 – ‘A pissing match over tigers’, long-form poetry, The Pluralist
2020 – Pipe Down’, fiction, Attention anthology
2020 – Contact’, photography series, ARC Magazine
2020 – ‘Heal Underfoot’, essay, Simulacrum Journal
2020 – ‘Eco-Visionaries’, long-form review, Art & the Public Sphere
2019 – ‘Primordium’ – performance script – Arvid&Marie
2019 – Turning’, letter, Letters to the Earth anthology, HarperCollins
2019 – ‘Welcome to Elsewhere’, essay, NOIT Journal, Flat Time House
2019 – Weighting’, poetry and prose, Le Grand K anthology
2019 – The Present Moment: Sonic Acts’, review, Aesthetica

Commissions 

2023 – ‘Delimiting’, prose, To Be We Need to Know the River
2022 – ‘Surface as vessel’, poetic essay, Dark Mountain Issue 22 – ARK
2022 – ‘Undergoings’, long-form essay, Pala Press: Subteranne
2022 – ‘From the Ends of the Earth’, essay, IOU Theatre
2022 – Four poems for accompanying publication, Sink or Float, solo exhibition of Jessica Wetherly, Aspex Portsmouth
2021 – ‘fable’, text for catalogue of Jessica Wetherly’s exhibition, Tele(gram): frequencies of the forest (Bilbao)
2021 – ‘boundless’ + ‘transmission’, poems for Pollination’s refugees welcome campaign, Open Culture: No Borders
2020 – ‘Gently as our days bite’, 11-part micro-fiction series, Robert Young Antiques
2020 – The Best Park Ever’, hand-drawn map and text, HORRID! Covid 4: The Park
2019 – Ground Up, 18-minute audio work commissioned by ICA / BBC New Creatives
2019 – ‘<>’, text response to Jessica Wetherly’s RCA MA show, Laboratory

Events + Workshops

2023 – Attendant Writing, first workshop at LOT Projects, second workshop at Glengall Wharf Gardens, London
2023 – Sporing Poetry with Nina Hanz, collaborative eco-poetry workshop at Floating, Berlin
2022 – HUM MURMUR MUTTER, five-week experimental writing course, Camden Art Centre, London
2022 – Inside Your Mouth Are Mountains, three-week experimental writing course, Camden Art Centre, London
2021 – A More-Than-Human Story, ecological writing workshop, Baker Street Productions, online
2021 – Gut Feelings: Voicing the Visceral, three-hour experimental writing workshop with Esme Boggis, TACO!, London
2019 – You Enter Into a White Room, three-day art writing workshop with Harri Welch and Lucy Holt, AcrossRCA, London
2019 – Playing Houses, (project manager) three-venue day programme, Flat Time House, London
2016 – *immersions, curating screening series spotlighting Levantine moving image artists, Al Ma’mal Gallery, East Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions + Showcases

2023 – Drawing In, collaborative drawings with Miek Zwamborn within open call element of exhibition, An Tobar (Isle of Mull, UK)
2022 – JE SERAI t.a.on meilleur.e.x ami.e.x, drawings + writings, Non-Étoile (Paris, FR)
2022 – Octopus’s Garden, recorded poetry for group exhibit with Knockvologan Studies, De Vishal (Haarlem, NL) 
2021 – Magical Octopus Sequel, cyanotypes + audio for group show, Knockvologan Studies (Isle of Mull, UK)
2020 – Small Talk, My Animal, curatorial text + audio piece for group show (online)
2020 – Letters in Lockdown, letter on lungs read by Jessica Hynes for Culture Declares (online)
2020 – Current Transmissions, Ground Up shown as part of ICA x New Creatives showcase, ICA (London, UK)

Residencies + Laboratories

2023 – Nine-day self-directed ‘micro-residency’Footnote Centre for Image and Text, Belgrade
2019 – Cartographies of the Vanishing Now, artist laboratory with FIBER, Amsterdam

Readings, Presentations + Panels

2024 – Mushroom Church with Modern Biology, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
2023 – Special Edition: Non-Human Poetry, National Poetry Library, London
2023 – Prototype 5, anthology launch and showcase, The Ivy House, London
2023 – Formas Mutatas, an evening of performances interpreting Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Asylum Chapel, London
2023 – Soundgate Belgrade, live broadcast by the Lumpen Station (Switzerland), from Footnote Centre, Belgrade
2022 – Slime, Sublime, Sublimation,with Esther Leslie, Krystle Patel and Maybelle Peters, The Horse Hospital, London
2022 – Autumn Party, Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Glory, London
2022 – Still Point writers’ showcase, Reference Point, 180 The Strand, London
2021 – Winter Party, Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Glory, London
2021 – A Handful of Sinister Scenarios (AKA Jump My Bones), opening, Florence Trust, London
2021 – Mouth Parts, group show curated by Molly Morphew, St Margaret’s House, London
2021 – Write the Earth, Baker Street Productions for Reading Climate Festival, Reading
2021 – Aww-Struck: Creative and Critical Approaches to Cuteness, University of Bristol + Royal Holloway, online
2020 – Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other, panel discussion chaired by Dame Marina Warner, RCA2020, online
2020 – Obsessed! panel discussion chaired by Sally O’Reilly, RCA2020, online
2020 – Attention! anthology launch, Morocco Bound, London
2019 – Le Grand K broadcast by thisistomorrow, World Metrology Day, Science Museum, London
2019 – Le Grand K anthology launch, Gossamer Fog, London

Grants, Awards & Achievements

2023 – Drusilla Harvey Access Grant (UK), for Sporing Poetry workshop at Floating, Berlin (DE)
2020 – Shortlisted for the Interstices Novel Commission, Book Works (UK)
2019 – New Creatives Commission for Ground Up, Institute for Contemporary Art x BBC (UK)
2016 – The Holland Scholarship, Dutch Ministry of Education (NL), merit-based funds to study at McGill University (CA)

Education

2020 – MA Writing, Royal College of Art (UK)
2017 – BA International Studies, Leiden University (NL)
2013 – International Baccalaureate