Selected publications and events:
2025: Motherhood: A ghost story, full-length poetry work, published by Broken Sleep Books
2025: Writing Motherhood and Violence, poetry reading and paper presented at ‘Making the Future: Addressing Socialisation of Violence Against Women and Girls’ symposium, Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival, June 2025
2025: on accident (for Adrienne Rich), poem, published by Ink Sweat and Tears
2025: a ghost and sometimes momentarily, poems/artworks, exhibited in ‘Sorry About the Mess’ exhibition, 8th-30th March, Bow Arts, Shaftesbury Avenue. Anna also delivered a poetry workshop as part of the exhibition
2024: Visceral Bodies Special issue of Studies in the Maternal Journal, Anna has co-edited this special issue, based on a symposium they co-organised in 2023. The issue also features Anna’s poem sometimes momentarily, sometimes for years
2024: Familiar, poem, published in t’ART Magazine Winter online issue
2024: Left to the glass to tell me: A poetic exploration of the post birthing-body, poetry reading and paper presented at London Conference in Critical Thought, Greenwich University, June 2024
2023: But Also Flesh and Salt, poem, published in Motherlore Magazine issue 2 (previously published in The Contemporary Journal)
2023: Some other register, poem, published on Dx: Diagnosis and Writing
2023: Life-writing and the Ghost, poetry reading and workshop at ‘Language Matters: Social & Environmental Justice in Creative-Critical Practice’ symposium, Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary Gallery, July 2023
2023: Visceral Bodies Symposium, an interdisciplinary and cross-institution symposium co-organised by Anna and colleague Anna Argirò at Kingston University, April 2023
2023: Creativity and Motherhood in Lockdown: An Ongoing Conversation, creative writing zine produced with colleague Dr Lina Hakim for the CAMC Conference, Coventry, March 2023
2022: But Also Flesh and Salt, poem, published in The Contemporary Journal, Nottingham Contemporary
2022: Failure: the ghost and the mother, article published in Alluvium Journal special issue, May 2022, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies
2021: Failure: the ghost and the mother, paper presented at the BACLS-WHN (British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies) Virtual Conference, Sept 2021
2021: An Intersection of Motherhood and Chronic Illness, essay/creative life-writing chapter in, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press
2021: Cascading Transitions: Becoming a Writer and Engaging with Neurodiversity in Response to Motherhood, essay/creative life-writing chapter in ‘Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders’
2021: Anna was awarded a place on the ‘Care of’ Creative Writing Summer School, Nottingham Trent University, July 2021
2021: Anna curated an online discussion event on ‘Failure’ for the Race/Gender Matters Research Group, Kingston University, Jan 2021
2020: I so wanted to ask you…, video reading of a poetry piece made for Writers’ Centre Kingston (online) event on Hauntology, Dec 2021
2019: Illness/Parenting/Writing, creative life-writing performance at Writers’ Centre Kingston event on Literary Health, Dec 2019
2019: The Role of ‘Place’ in My Creative Life-Writing Practice, paper presented at the Genos / Matter / Theory Conference, Race/Gender Matters Research Group, Kingston University, June 2019
2018: Cascading transitions: becoming a writer and engaging with neurodiversity in response to motherhood, paper presented at the Women in Transition Conference, Kings and Oxford Universities, Oct 2018
2018: Objects of a Maternal Haunting, creative life-writing chapter in 'Everyday World-Making: Towards an Understanding of Affect and Mothering', Demeter Press
2016: A Maternal Haunting, article for MAMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
