roles

2025 -       Resident Artist-Steward at Islington Mill, 'Intentional Home' experiment in queer utopian living                        (DIY school of queer community organisation - DIYsqco) Salford UK                  

2024 -       dif studio - Producer and Publisher (Salford + Bristol)

2020-        Writer-Artist Coaching and Mentoring

2018 - 24  Founder and Artistic Director, Out on the Page*

2023 - 24  UK Producer for writer Nuril Basri

2023         Audible UK x Out on the Page - The Pride List of Queer Storytelling*

                 Consultant Editor and Project Manager for OOTP

2020 - 23  Board of Trustees - Literature Works South West*

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writing projects and collaborations

2025        Islington Mill Open - performance art piece 'Birds Singing the Woods' with Yihang Yuan

2023        Terminalia Festival - Queer Dérive Bristol Old City Walls and Beyond.

2023        Terminalia Festival - Contributor to Global Non-Places Tour 

2023        Queerscapes 23 - Clifton Downs Project 

2022        Nuril Basri Micro-Movies x7  - Director and Photographer

                For launch of his new novel Le Rat d’Egout (The Sewer Rat)  

2022        Queerscapes Lab Co-Producer

                Research group surveying LGBTQ+ writing and themes in psychogeography. 

2021        Queer Writing for a Brave New World - Project Director*

                Anthology of queer writing, visual poetry and photography on the theme of Modernism. 

2021        Space 01 - Jointly Imagined Collaboration with artist Yihang Yuan

                Resulted in my short story ‘Lucky Strike’         

2020        Chronostasis - artbook collaboration with Japanese artist Koji Tsukada

                Exhibited Minamino Gallery Tokyo, City Museum Beppu Japan

                Bath Spa University of School Art   

 

commissioned writing and talks

2024        Who are the Disenfranchised? - Talk*

                ILX24, National Centre for Writing

2021        Enterprise and Experiment - Think Piece*

                International Literary Symposium, National Centre for Writing, UK

 

selected writing workshops & courses produced

2022        Writing Workouts - series of prompted queer writing workshops online

                Lost in Music, Out on the Road, Darkness and Light, Places, People

2021        Class Pride Workshop - Facilitator

                Working Class Writers Festival  2021 - Bristol

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writing residencies - retreats - studios

2025        Salford, UK - peer and studio holder at Islington Mill Art Academy (IMAA)

2024        Salford, UK - dif residency at Islington Mill

2022        Istanbul, Turkey - studio retreat with Indonesian author Nuril Basri

2017        Sapporo, Japan - Tenjinyama Arts - studio residency.

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* in my aka name paul bradley