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Fiona Glen

–– writer –– artist –– editor ––


~fresh work out with ~ CWYR zine, Strings ~

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
  6. *immersions – Al Ma’amal
++ 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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Mark

Photography: Fiona Glen


Sporing Poetry 


Site-specific eco-writing workshop in collaboration with Nina Hanz at Floating University in Berlin. 

Nina and I had recently published Mycoglossia, a poetry chapbook that ‘speaks through many mushroom voices’, asks how language might ‘move like spores’, and draws on the intimate collaboration of fungi. In this workshop, we wanted to share some of our approaches to letting go of individual authorship, and invite participants to experiment with writing in a more collective manner.

Over an afternoon in August 2023 at Floating – an anti-university located in the rainwater collection basin of Berlin’s former Tempelhof airfield – we invited participants to write from the landscape, to exchange fragments or ‘spores’ of their texts, and to generate a collective poem through a highly participatory process.

The group’s final poem was read by two participants before an artists’ lecture which Nina and I staged at Floating that evening. My attendance was made possible by the Drusilla Harvey Access Fund for writers’ travel costs.


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