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Fiona Glen

writer & artist & writer & artist


~ currently a Citizen Poet with Verse Vancouver ~

Projects
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  1. Shapeshifter: Tracing the Cultural Octopus
  2. Mycoglossia with Nina Hanz – HVTN Press
  3. transient guardians – Magical Octopus + De Gids
  4. Meat Dreaming – Sticky Fingers
  5. Slimy, Sticky, Sweet – Aww-Struck + SPAM
  6. Ground Up – ICA x BBC New Creatives
++ OTHERS

Workshops, Courses + Programmes
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  1. HUM MURMUR MUTTER – Camden Art Centre
  2. Attendant Writing – LOT + Glengall Wharf
  3. Inside Your Mouth – Camden Art Centre
  4. Gut Feelings – TACO!
  5. Playing Houses – Flat Time House
++ OTHERS

Poetry
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  1. Unflock – Strings
  2. Wriggler + Squid – Brilliant Vibrating Interface
  3. As Silica – Dark Mountain 24
  4. On Alberto Balsam – Broken Sleep anthology
  5. Boundless + Transmission – Pollination
  6. Yeast + Headtail – Tentacular Magazine
++ MORE

Essays 
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  1. Being is a tender strength – Prototype 5
  2. Leaves, Alive and Otherwise – Still Point
  3. Heal Underfoot – Simulacrum
  4. Turning – Letters to the Earth
  5. Welcome to Elsewhere – NOIT Journal
++ MORE

Experimental Writing
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hello@fiona-glen.com
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 Fiona Glen reading at Ada Lake, Belgrade. Still from video by Luka Knežević-Strika.


microbio(me)     


I am a writer, artist and editor from Edinburgh. In January 2024, I moved to Vancouver, which sits on the unceded ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. I came to this mossy place from London, UK, where I graduated in 2020 from the MA Writing at the Royal College of Art. Across forms, my work circulates around ecology, language and relationship. I’m interested in how we come to understand ourselves through telling stories about – and identifying with – other beings. I can be found writing sensual celebrations of hagfish and developing audio projects which play with the materiality of plastic.



my practice


My independent work explores embodiment, unruly ecologies, and how we humans understand ourselves through images, metaphors, things, and other beings. My work-in-progress book, Shapeshifter, considers the octopus as a slippery figure in contemporary culture – and, like the octopus, it moves through different states, changing its approach to the reader. 

I’m passionate about interdisciplinary, collaborative, and experimental writing – particularly where it intersects with art – and I have taught writing courses at venues including Camden Art Centre. My audio work has previously been commissioned by the BBC and ICA, my essays and criticism have been published in periodicals such as ArtReview, MAP Magazine, Aesthetica, and 3:AM Magazine, and my creative essays and prose have appeared in anthologies such as DreamsTimeFree, NOIT, Pala, Dark Mountain, and Prototype 5. Mycoglossia, my first poetry pamphlet, co-written with Nina Hanz, was published in December 2022 by HVTN Press, and is an experimental exploration of mushrooms and spores.

I gravitate towards strange incidences, fantastical life cycles, and stories of enthusiasm and obsession. I revel in pop culture where it converges with the weird, and I seek to celebrate the unseen majesty of overlooked beings: worms, frogs, mould, or plankton. My projects have seen me theorising slime trends on YouTube and fictionalising the formation of the human skull. 


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I am also a freelance copywriter, editor and strategist. You can find out more and work with me at work.fiona-glen.com