Workshops & Reading Groups

2019 ︎

^{Uncreative Writing and Post-internet Poetry
Civic House Saturday School, Glasgow

On my way home
Market Gallery, Glasgow

Eco-clinic (with Tendency Towards)
Assembly Aberdeen

The Curator’s Workshop: Living Ecological
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
The Ecopoetic Imagination (with The Nature Library)
Project Café, Glasgow}2020 ︎
^{Energy (W)rites: Telling the Embodied Stories of Energy Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen

Editing and Publication Workshop with A+E Collective
University of Glasgow
Pop Matters: virtual writing studio (with Conner Milliken)
I Need to Start a Garden: Journaling the Crisis
Stay at Home Literary Fringe Festival

INTEL JINGLE: A Post-internet Poetry Workshop
Stay at Home Literary Fringe Festival

An Evening w/ Dostoyevsky Wannabe
Stay at Home Literary Fringe Festival
Pop Matters: Sad Girl Summer Heat Edition
Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Summer School
Islands in the Stream (of Consciousness): Pop Matters Does Millport

Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Autumn Residency
SPAM Reading Event
ASP Festival
MLitt Editing and Publication: A Presentation on SPAM Press
University of Glasgow
Experimental Journaling and Memoir Workshop (with Tawnya Renelle)

Beyond Form Creative Writing
Tangled! An Ecopoetics of Threads (with Ginkgo Prize)
The Poetry School

Upcycle your SPAM: Trash Poetics and Creative Reuse (with SPAM Press)
Stay at Home Literary Fringe Festival

INTEL JINGLE: A Post-internet Poetry Workshop (redux) Nottingham Poetry Exchange

BioXmas Bioparty: A night of eco pecha-kucha
Online, with A+E Collective}2021 ︎
^{Writing Refusal, Negativity and Failure
University of Glasgow
Entanglement (with Becoming Woodland)
Woodlands Community Workspace, Glasgow

Experimental Journaling (with Tawnya Renelle)

Beyond Form Creative Writing

The Animal Salon
Post-graduate Animal Studies Symposium, University of Strathclyde
Digital Dreamland (with Kirsty Dunlop)
Stay at Home Literary Fringe Festival

(Hyper)Pop Matters: a tribute to SOPHIE (with Conner Milliken)
Stay at Home Literary Fringe Festival

Pop Matters does Indie Disco
Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Autumn Residency

Ecopoetry Workshop at Being Human Festiva (with Colin Herd)
Hyndland Academy, Glasgow

Dream Ecologies (with Ginkgo Prize)
The Poetry School}2022 ︎
^{Experimenting with Weather (with Tawnya Renelle)
Beyond Form Creative Writing

Writing the Everyday (7 week course)
Beyond Form Creative Writing
Ecopoetics and Postcapitalist Desire
Glasgow Goes Green Festival
Civic Anthotypes: Archives, light, organic process
Civic House Open Day, Glasgow

Dreaming the City
& Urban Arcadia: Mythologies of the Mall

University of Glasgow Summer School}
Glitching the Poem (with Kirsty Dunlop)
Glasgow Zine FestivalImpossible Writing Masterclass
SUISS
Something scattered: a workshop for archipelagic thinking
SGSAH Wellbeing Residency
Epistolary Experiments (4 week course)
Beyond Form Creative Writing
Pop Matters: Our Songs
Beyond Form Creative Writing
Recycling the Repository (with Karen Veitch)
University of Strathclyde
Writing the Object (with Tawnya Renelle)
Book Week Scotland, Typewronger Books

2023 ︎
^{Somnolent Cartographies
with A+E Collective, Kevin Leomo and Dear Green Bothy}
^{Digital and Print Editing and Publication Workshop
with SPAM Press at University of Glasgow}
^{Making Woundscape
with the University of Strathclyde and Alasdair Gray Archive}
^{Poetics of Cringe
with SPAM Press and the Edwin Morgan Trust}
^{Book Group: The Mushroom at the End of the World
Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow}
^{Book Group: Thus Spoke the Plant
Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow}
^{24/7: Poetry and the Everyday
AyeWrite!}
^{Poetry and Food
with The Alchemy Experiment and Colin Herd}
^{Performing your research: a poets theatre workshop
with SGSAH Summer School and Colin Herd}
^{The Poetry of Somnolence
Beyond Form Creative Writing}

Podcasts/Radio

_{The Subjective Space}
_{Buena Vida: gleaming aura

Biosystems}
_{Systems Radio: rice the water}
_{Clyde Built Radio: The Palace of Humming Trees}
_{Clyde Built Radio: With the Boys}
_{URL Sonata}
_{The Interpreter’s House}

Books:

^{Existential Stationary: 42 Mad Men Haiku

lana del rey playing at a stripclub

nature sounds without nature sounds

Rainbow Arcadia

Pure Sound

Monte Carlo 1
with A+E Collective

Virga

infra·structure

Chlorophyllia

the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene
edited with Rhian Williams

neutral milky halo

Miss Anthropocene

Sonnets for Hooch: Lemon Bloom Season
with Mau Baiocco and Kyle Lovell

varnish//cache

Polychromatics

Soft Friction
with Kirsty Dunlop

Sonnets for Hooch: Summertime Social
with Mau Baiocco and Kyle Lovell

The Luna Erratum

Leave Bambi Alone

String Feeling

Sans Soleil
with fred spoliar}
^{Cherry Nightshade}
^{Visions & Feed

The Last Song: Words for Frightened Rabbit}
^{edited with Aaron Kent}
^{Cocoa and Nothing}
^{with Colin Herd}
^Woundscape
^Honeyfeed
^{scrunch curlew}
^{An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun}
^Cinders

Press

_{Review of Cinders - ‘Just sweep in! sweep up! sweep out!’ by Andrew Duncan, Litter Magazine
‘At the chocolate factory: negotiating cocoa illusion in fat and fiction this Easter’, Culture Matters - Amy K Grandvoinet on Cocoa and Nothing}
_{‘Dream Ecologies, Poetry and Sustainability‘ Interview with Srishti Jain for Arts Help}
_{TALES FOR A DECELERATED CULTURE: Ricky Monahan Brown reviews An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun by Maria Sledmere, Glasgow Review of Books}
_{Patrick Romero McCafferty reviews Visions & Feed for Poetry London}
_{Visions & Feed mentioned in Anthropocene Poetry substack

Astra Papachristodoulou on Briony Hughes, James Wilkes, Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere, The Poetry Review summer 2023 issue

Saltire Society, ‘40 Under 40’ List 2023 in The Scotsman

‘Having your lyric cake and eating it’: in conversation with Tom White for Fruit Journal}
_{Tim Murphy reviews Visions & Feed for The Friday Poem}
_{Alice Brewer reviews Cocoa and Nothing for The Arts Desk

Visions & Feed selected by Rebecca Tamás in The Guardian’s monthly poetry roundup, December 2022}
_{The Luna Erratum selected for Laura Waddell’s Books of the Year for The Scotsman 2022}
_{the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene is selected by Will Rene as a special staff eco-pick for National Poetry Day 2022

‘Foam theory’ selected for Best Scottish Poetry 2021 by Hugh Mcmillan for the Scottish Poetry Library}
_{Lillian Salvatore reviews The Luna Erratum (Glasgow University Magazine)}
_{Poetry review: Maria Sledmere – The Luna Erratum by Holly Fleming (Snack mag)}
_{‘Meet A+E Collective, a multidisciplinary group of young Glasgow-based creatives working for a better future’ (It’s Nice That)}
_{A+E Collective on Engaging Creatively with Climate Crisis, in SCAN}
_{‘Hybrid Flotsam’ – Shehzar Doja reviews neutral milky halo in Gutter issue 24}
_{Briony Hughes selects neutral milky halo as a pamphlet highlight of the year for Osmosis}
_{the weird folds mentioned in nicodemus nicoludis’ ‘From “Rock into Bread”: A Taxonomy of Today’s Ecopoetry’ in The Poetry Project Newsletter}
_{the weird folds mentioned on BBC Radio 3 ‘Eco-Criticism’ programme}
_{Charlotte Geater and Sam Solnick name nature sounds without nature sounds and infra·structure among their 2020 books of the year for The White Review}
_{Review: Susannah Thompson on the weird folds}
_{Review: Billy Mills on neutral milky halo}
_{Review: Isabelle Thompson on neutral milky halo}
_{Revicule: Calum Hazell on infra·structure in Erotoplasty Issue 7 part 1}
_{Essay: ‘“rainy climes and emerald fish” / “like downloads”’ by Colin Herd}
_{Review: Joanna Lee on nature sounds without nature sounds in The Poetry Review}
_{Protest Poetry: UCU university strikes & creative solidarity in The Skinny}
_{Harriet blog (The Poetry Foundation) on my review of Rachael Allen’s Kingdomland}
_{Sam Riviere lists Lana Del Rey playing at a stripclub as one of his 2019 books of the year for The White Review}
_{Bethany Mitchell reviews nature sounds without nature sounds for amberflora}
_{Piece on The Absent Material Gateway in Dazed}
_{Piece on SPAM in Dazed}
_{Spam x Glasgow International in Glasgow Live}
_{Nature Writing Workshop in Munich, June 2018. British Council Press Release}
_{Colin Herd reviewing Existential Stationary in Adjacent Pineapple}
_{‘Best of the Net 2018 Anthology’ Nomination for short story ‘Peanut Butter’, by L’Ephemere Review}

Academic Teaching

^{2022-present
University of Strathclyde (Lecturer)}

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^{Scottish Universities International Summer School (Tutor)}
^{2019-2023
University of Glasgow (Tutor)}

Funded Projects

^2023-2025

^{Experimental Ecopoetics Workshop Series for the87press (Arts Council England National Portfolio Grant)}

^2022-2023

^{Brilliant Vibrating Interface: Queering the Post-Internet through Poetry and Practice (SPAM Press x Edwin Morgan Trust)}
^{EARTH Scholarships Glasgow Cluster (SGSAH)}