Essays and Articles

The search for a language of the body. Backstory magazine: issue 1: October 2023.

Memoir piece on a first summer of desire. ELLE magazine: April 2023.

A personal anthology of short stories. Jonathan Gibbs: April 2023.

Shadows and Reflections 2022 column. Caught by the River: January 2023.

Essay on beauty signifiers and social class. ELLE magazine: September 2022.

Essay on contemporary north-east identity and finding new narratives. New Writing North: Durham Book Festival: October 2022.

Article on the Y2K revival, indie sleaze and the dark side of nostalgia. ELLE magazine: October 2022.

Essay on fake tan, false eyelashes and the performance of working-class femininity. ELLE magazine: October 2022.

Shadows and Reflections 2021 column. Caught by the River: January 2022.

Memoir piece on my relationship to Tracey Emin and becoming a writer. ELLE magazine: September 2021.

Article on women and work during the coronavirus pandemic. The Guardian: Autumn 2021.

Shadows and Reflections 2020 column. Caught by the River: January 2021.

Essay on deafness, language and writing. Wellcome Collection: April 2020.

Essay on the coronavirus pandemic, politics and being in quarantine. Aitken Alexander: April 2020.

Article about ‘the writers who taught me to speak’. Literary Hub: January 2020.

Shadows and Reflections 2019 column. Caught by the River: January 2020.

Article on Sunderland, class and a sense of belonging. The Guardian: September 2019.

Essay on mothers and romantic relationships. Elle magazine: June 2019.

Essay on fathers and alcoholism. Stylist Magazine. May 2019.

Article on class, education and social mobility in the UK. Elle magazine: May 2019.

Pleasures of April column. Caught by the River: April 2019.

White Cardboard Boxes essay on language and politics. Somesuch Stories: March 2018.

Article on class and education. The Independent: February 2018.

Short Fiction

It Felt Like Home. Somesuch Stories 7. Somesuch: Autumn 2023.

Woman seeks room in London. Architectural Review: Towards Abundance: Delightful Paradoxes of Gender: May 2023.

Horses. Somesuch Stories 6. Somesuch: Spring 2022.

Blood Brothers. The Book of Newcastle. Comma Press: January 2020.

Rebel Women of Sunderland project in collaboration with Sunderland Culture and Kathryn Robertson: January 2020.

The End of the Pier. At The Table Almanac. Pavilion: October 2020.

My Sister was a Dancer. Written and recorded for BBC Radio 4: July 2019.

Wild Cat. Soho House magazine: 2019.

The Fishmonger. At The Table magazine: December 2018.

A Bright Young Thing. Issue 3 of Somesuch Stories magazine and Caught by the River online: November 2017.

The Skin is the Largest Organ. Somesuch Stories: April 2017.

Reviews

The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd. Caught by the River: 2021.

Skint Estate by Cash Carraway. Red Pepper: 2020.

Happy Monday arts column. AnOther magazine: 2016-2018.