sam jenks
writer | producer
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Sam writes gay, genre-bending fiction.
He often collaborates with other writers and artists
He is the founder-producer at dif - a project that develops and publishes new queer writing that goes beyond the mainstream
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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 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 Arthur Rimbaud.
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Bristol-Manchester
UK - Global
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