sam jenks
writer | producer

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Sam writes gay, genre-bending fiction, often collaborating with other writers and artists.

 

His current writing examines how queer people relate to and respond to the urban and rural landscapes around them. Landscapes constructed by and for a hetero-hegemony.​ His writing is sexy, often funny, frequently dark and sometimes surreal.

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He is the founder-producer at dif - a project that develops and publishes new queer writing that goes beyond the mainstream

 

He is also peer and studio holder at Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford, contributing to the modelling of queer utopias.

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He claims to be influenced by:

WG Sebald, Sophie Calle, Patrick Keiller, Andrea Lawlor, Nuril Basri, Abdellah Taia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francois Truffaut, Brian Eno, Haruki Murakami, Albert Camus, Yihang Yuan, Patti Smith and Rimbaud.

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Bristol-Salford-UK-Global

no borders

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