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Bodies in Transit
In 2025 I was shortlisted for the Emerging Writers’ Award at the Brighton Book Festival (2025) for Bodies in Transit, a piece of experimental, diasphoric fiction. Below I share the first part of the piece which is in five sections — Bodies in TransitTo be born is to inherit someone else’s unfinished crossing. I. Ribcage…
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Covert Literary Magazine Issue 5, launch event 21/10/2025
Dear All, Excited to reveal that a couple of my short stories has been published in Covert Literary Magazine and I will be doing a reading at the launch on the 21st of October 2025 (Brighton, UK). Come along and hear from all the writers. The Magazine, run by Writing Our Legacy, is sponsored by…
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Hell’s Breakroom
Hi All, Hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying what you can of your days. Bailey and I have been tussling with the seasonal changes – to be honest – me more than her! I have already got my heated blanket out. When COVID-19 struck, followed by lockdown, I was writing short stories for the…
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A short post about ‘Murder, You Say?’
I first started working on ‘Murder, You Say?’ in 2019! I kept starting and stopping, setting it aside and wondering how to invest it in something that made me want to finish it. It started life being called ‘Murder in the Village’. Then, as time went on, I realised that what I wanted, was to…
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Murder, You Say? — out in the wild!
After being a finalist in the Emerging Writers’ Category at the UK Brighton Book Festival (yes, I mention it whenever I can), I was determined to complete the second Emerson Chopra mystery, Murder, You Say? But publishing a book when you’re self-published is like trying to build a boat while already at sea, and then…
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Toward the queerest insurrection
I have returned to this manuscript numerous times for a number of years. “Toward the Queerest Insurrection” is an influential manuscript authored by the Mary Nardini Gang. It is an anti-assimilationist manifesto, challenging the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement’s tendencies toward conformity and advocating for a radical, insurrectionary approach to queer liberation for lasting and sustainable change.…
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Self-Editing: A Love-Hate Relationship (Starring Bailey, My Feline Muse)
Ah, self-editing. The final frontier of fiction writing. You’ve poured your mind, heart and soul into your story, slam-dunked the procrastinators nightmare – the first draft, and now it’s time to polish your masterpiece until it shines so bright it becomes glaringly obvious enough is enough. Easy, right? Sure—if you enjoy questioning your sanity, obsessing…
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The self and writing: subaltern voices
Why someone writes and the impact of exploring space for subaltern voices.
O. S. King
Writer
O. S. King 