Sam Jenks
Writing & Arts
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Sam writes contemporary queer genre-stretching fiction that mashes-up fiction-autofiction-nonfiction.
He has also produced intertextual works in collaboration with with other artists and writers.
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His work reflects a deep interest in the traces of and the invisibilities of LGBTQ+ lives in urban and rural landscapes, present and past. More than that, he examines how queer people relate to and respond to the landscapes around them.
His writing is sexy, often funny, frequently dark and sometimes surreal.
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He approaches his writing through walking, talking, recording and reading - drawing out the contradictions between domestic life and hedonistic possibilities, intimacies and alienation - his way of exploring the existential challenges of life.
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His list of influences ranges across literature, art, music and film and includes, WG Sebald, Sophie Calle, Patrick Keiller, Andrea Lawlor, Philip Glass, Nuril Basri, Abdellah Taia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Virginia Woolf, Francois Truffaut, Brian Eno, Haruki Murakami, Albert Camus, Yihang Yuan,Teju Cole, Patti Smith and Arthur Rimbaud.
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He is based in Bristol, UK.
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Current Writing Projects 2024
A Small God of Something
Completed novella, currently querying agents and presses.
Walking into Rimbaud (working title)
Next long form fiction.