I was honoured to have my writing in a few very exciting places throughout 2022.
To begin with, my essay Borderlands was published in Issue 3 of TOLKA magazine, and I had the great pleasure of going to Dublin in May to read from the piece at the launch event as part of the Dublin International Literary Festival. The essay isn’t accessible online but there are still some print copies available, and I was delighted to be published alongside such an exceptional group of writers.
Also in May, a chamber opera for which I wrote the libretto premiered in Tokyo. How Was It For You was a bilingual English-Japanese text, adapted from Mori Ogai’s novella Vita Sexualis, and travelling to Tokyo to stage and open it was a true highlight of the year.
In December I was thrilled to have a new essay, First Person Confessional, published in Salome Wagaine’s brilliant seasonal newsletter Critmas, under the title ‘Annieslands’. The essay looks at the current state of women’s confessional writing, through an interrogation of the work of Annie Ernaux and Annie Lord.