Sam Jenks
Writing & Arts
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Literature Professional Roles
2024 - DiF Studios - Producer
2018 - Founder and Artistic Director, Out on the Page*
2023 - UK Producer for 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
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
2021 Enterprise and Experiment - Think Piece*
International Literary Symposium, National Centre for Writing, UK
2024 Who are the Disenfranchised? - Talk*
ILX24, National Centre for Writing
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
Writing Residencies - Retreats - Studios
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.
*in my aka name, Paul Bradley