In July 2024, I was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an organisation that has gathered together writers for more than 200 years. At the ceremony, Fellows are asked to choose a pen in order to sign the RSL log book, which is itself rather large and, of course, invaluable. When I sat down and looked at the various famous writers pens on offer, I chose Charles Dickens’ pen for a number of reasons, including the fact that it is an actual quill. I dipped it into the inkwell and wrote a scratchy version of my name in the book. Fabulous.

Over the past couple of years I’ve been working with Dr Agnieszka Pryzbyszewska from Uni of Lodz and web designer and artist Chris Joseph to rescue/recreate/document the digital fiction projects I’ve worked on since 2002. This has been frustrating (many works are lost) and fascinating (oh! I forgot all about that project!). At a time when many of us are feeling a little … downhearted? cynical? annoyed?… by the current state of the tech landscape, it’s been good to pause and look back and, in turn, think about what might come next.

The archive of the digital works is: here
with the paratexts and ephemera of the work: here
and my Buttondown newsletter about it is here.