Awards & Residencies
Arts Across Canada, tour grant: Anything Not Measurable…, Canada Council, 2019.
Anatomy Arts Associate Artist, residency: Equivalence, Edinburgh, 2016.
bpNichol Award: Naturally Speaking, Meet The Presses, Toronto, 2013.
Chroma Literary Journal: contest winner, judge Betsy Warland, London, 2008.
Broken Pencil Zine of the Month: Some Poems By People…, Toronto, 2008.
Writer’s Reserve Fiction: Mercury/Broken Pencil/Insomniac, Ontario Arts Council, 2007.
Writer’s Reserve Fiction: Coach House/Cormorant/Sumach/Kiss Machine, OAC, 2006.
Grants To Writers Level Two, poetry: Blissful Times, Toronto Arts Council, 2004.
Writer’s Reserve Poetry: McGilligan Books, Ontario Arts Council, 2004.
Grants To Writers Level One, poetry: CD research, Toronto Arts Council, 2002.
Banff Centre, residency: Mexico Exchange, Canada Council/FONCA, 2002-03.
Multimedia Commissions
Long-read/Long-watch Essay
Writing From the Groin, Locked World, Birds of Paradise, Glasgow, Nov. 2023.
Text, alt-text, captioned and audio-described videos, plain language, BSL and audio.
Zine
Sore Loser: …on queer disabled grief, Disability Arts Online, Brighton, Dec. 2021.
Flip-book, audiobook and alt-text; with Etzali Hernández.
Film-Poem
Audience, Glasgow International / Jacqueline Donachie, June 2021.
Performance with BSL from Bea Webster, captions, and audio description.
Film-Story
Equivalence, Anatomy Arts, Edinburgh, 2016.
Multimedia story performance with integrated AD, BSL and live captions.
Audiobook & Film-Stories
Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real, Digital Originals Grant, Canada Council, 2020.
E-book with Audio & Video
Stairs & Whispers: D/deaf & Disabled Poets…, Nine Arches, co-editor, Rugby, 2017.
E-book
Here’s To Wang, Forest Publications, story collection, Edinburgh, 2009.
Podcasts with Transcripts
Grief Offerings, Rhubaba, with Emilia Beatriz & Etzali Hernández, Edinburgh, 2023.
Queer Disabled Loss, Mourning…, DAO, with Etzali Hernández, Brighton, 2021.
Disability And… Working Class LGBTQIA, Graeae/DAO, curator, London, 2020.
Access To Publishing, Lunar Poetry, with Barokka/Antrobus/Turnbull, London, 2017.
Multimedia Collaborations
Poetry-Music Recordings
Ghost Poem, Passion Project Mixtape, poem on digital album produced by Anusha, 2024.
Weapons of Minor Destruction, with Zorras, video/digital single, Toronto/Cobourg, 2012.
Doctor Says, with Zorras, hard EP / digital, MAR, Edinburgh, 2012.
We Apologise for Any Inconvenience, with Zorras, hard CD / digital, MAR, Edinburgh, 2009.
Poetry-Music-Film Collectives
They They Theys, co-founder, poet, Edinburgh, 2014-16.
Zorras, co-founder, poet / filmmaker, Edinburgh, 2007-13.
Stumblin’ Tongues, co-founder, poet, Toronto, 1996-97.
Printed Books
Short Stories
Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real, Proper Tales Press, 32 pages, Cobourg, 2019.
Here’s To Wang, Forest Publications, 16 pages, Edinburgh, 2009; 2nd printing 2010.
Poetry
Sore Loser: …on queer disabled grief, with Etzali Hernández, 16 pp, Glasgow, 2021.
Naturally Speaking, espresso books, 32 pp, Toronto, 2012.
Blissful Times, Book*hug, 80 pp + audio, video & photographs, Toronto, 2007.
Proof of a Tongue, McGilligan Books, 104 pp, Toronto, 2004.
Dreams of Kentucky, sandraslittlebookshop, 20 pp, Toronto, 2001.
The Mathematics of Love, 13th Tiger Press, 16 pp, Toronto, 2000.
Partings, Stumblin’ Tongues, with Andra Simons, 28 pp, Toronto, 1998.
Online Anthologies
Guest Editor
Disability Arts Online, curated collection with audio & video, Brighton, April 2020.
New Scottish Poets, Jacket2; Nuala Watt, Lila Matsumoto et al; Philadephia, 2012.
Editor
More Poems by People I Like, sandraslittlebookshop; Trish Salah et al; Edinburgh, 2010.
Poetry
Fit to Work, eds Burnhope/Mayer/Sluman, Naturally Speaking excerpts, London, 2013.
Catechism, English PEN, “Weapons of Minor Destruction” + video, London, 2012.
Printed Anthologies
Poetry & Essay Co-Editor (with Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman)
Stairs & Whispers: D/deaf & Disabled Poets Write Back, Nine Arches, 264 pp, Rugby, 2017.
Poetry Editor (sandraslittlebookshop)
Some Poems by People I Like; Naila Keleta Mae, Chrystos et al; 60 pp, Toronto, 2007.
Silent Slam; Beatriz Hausner, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha et al; 32 pp, Toronto, 2005.
Broken Telephone/au téléphone; Jorge Lara Rivera, Fred Wah et al; 24 pp, Banff, 2004.
Story Commissions
Protest!, Comma Press, “Kick-Start”, advisor Frank Salt, 15 pp + audio, Manchester, 2017.
Thought X, Comma Press, “Equivalence”, advisor Ana Jofre, 8 pp, Manchester, 2017.
The Write Stuff, Pearson Canada, “I Know It’s Serious”, 2 pp, Toronto, 2013.
Can’tLit, ECW Press, “Things I Don’t Remember”, 2 pp, Toronto, 2009.
Other Stories
We Were Always Here, 404 Ink, “Smudged”, 6 pp, Edinburgh, 2019.
Poetry
Works For Now, espresso, “Conversations with Robots…”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2020.
Why Poetry?, Verve, “When I Imagine the Sound…”, 1 pg, Birmingham, 2018.
Stairs and Whispers, Nine Arches, “Unparalleled…”, 3 pp + audio, Rugby, 2017.
#UntitledOne, Neu! Reekie!, “Tilt” and “Flip”, 2 pp, Edinburgh, 2015.
Naked Among Thistles, Stewed Rhubarb, “Homecoming™”, 3 pp, Edinburgh, 2014.
Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, English PEN, “Weapons…”, 2 pp, London, 2012.
Rogue Stimulus, Mansfield Press, “Desperate Times”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2010.
Crisis Book, presspresspress, “Slump”, 12 pp, Toronto, 2010.
Strong Words Year 2, indiepolitik,“Selected Works”, 3pp, Toronto, 2007.
Cuatro Postigos, Cultural Institute of Yucatán, 40 pp in translation, Mérida, 2007.
radiant danse uv being, Nightwood/blewointment, “Nearest…”, 1 pg, Vancouver, 2006.
Red Light: Superheroes…, Arsenal Pulp, “Lipstick Boys”, 1 pg, Vancouver, 2005.
The Common Sky, Three Squares Press, “Up”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2003.
Resist!, Fernwood, “A Kiss for the Riot Cop”, 1 pg, Black Point, 2001.
Aware in this, Flow Sundays, “Love:11” and “Resurrection”, 2pp, Bermuda, 1999.
Playwrighting
Outspoken, Playwrights Canada Press, “Strange Attractors”, 4pp, Toronto, 2009.
Essay Commissions
Imaginary Safe House, Frog Hollow Press, “My Arrival at Crip…”, 19 pp, Victoria, 2019.
The Bi-ble V. II, Monstrous Regiment, “A Man, A Cane…”, 9 pp, Edinburgh, 2019.
Stairs and Whispers, Nine Arches, “Nothing About…”, 7 pp + audio, Rugby, 2017.
The State of the Arts, Coach House Books, “Towards fair-trade lit”, 10 pp, Toronto, 2006.
Photography
Trans*Homo, NoNo Verlag, “Funder / Lawyer”, 2 pp, Berlin, 2012.
Testifyin’, Playwrights Canada Press, “Yagayah”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2003.
Online Magazines
Story Commissions
British Council Discover, “Boost”, text & audio, London/Istanbul, Mar. 2018.
Other Stories
The Deaf Poets Society, “Personal Assistant”, text & audio, USA, Mar. 2019.
Cosmonauts Avenue, “Toronto”, Montréal, Sept. 2016.
subTerrain magazine, “Chance”, Vancouver, Spring 2014.
Poetry
The Week Shall Inherit The Verse, “The Question”, Cobourg, Summer 2012.
Matrix Magazine, “After The Phone Call”, Montréal, Spring 2010.
Drunken Boat (Anomaly), Blissful Times excerpts, Boston, Winter 2008.
Lemon Hound, Blissful Times excerpts, Montréal, Nov. 2007.
Essay Commissions
Wordgathering, “A Manifesto of Manifestos”, Syracuse, Feb. 2024.
Disability Arts International, “Profile: Canada…”, London, Mar. 2021.
Disability Futures…, “Remembering the Now…”, text & audio, Syracuse, Nov. 2020.
Birds of Paradise, “Mourning the Past, Demanding…”, Glasgow, Oct. 2020.
Disability Arts International, “Accessible Books”, London, June 2020.
HA&L, “My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories…”, text & audio, Hamilton, Oct. 2019.
Disability Arts Online, “Quality & the Marginalised Artist”, text & audio, Brighton, 2018-19.
Disability Arts International, “Captioning the Performing Arts”, London, Dec. 2018.
Feral Feminisms, “Notes on Able and Accessible Filmmaking”, Toronto, June 2016.
Jacket2, “Lady Lingual: An Intro to Adeena Karasick”, Philadelphia, Mar. 2013.
Arts Criticism
Disability Arts Online, film/theatre/book reviews, Brighton, 2016-18.
Xtra! Magazine, theatre & book reviews, Toronto, 2005-11.
NOW Magazine, freelance book reviews, Toronto, 2006-07.
Printed Magazines
Short Stories
Extra Teeth, “Half”, 2 pp, Glasgow, Spring 2022.
Gutter Magazine, “Water,logged”, 2 pp, Glasgow, Spring 2019.
subTerrain magazine, “Chance”, 1 pg, Vancouver, Spring 2014.
dead (g)end(er), “The Mistake”, 2pp, Saint Catharines, Spring 2012.
Gutter Magazine, “Air”, 3 pp, Glasgow, Winter 2012.
Gutter Magazine, “The Mothers”, 1 pg, Glasgow, Summer 2011.
Chroma Journal, “Inhale”, 3 pp London, Summer 2010.
Broken Pencil,“Things I Don’t Remember”, 2pp, Toronto, Autumn 2007.
This Magazine, “I Know It’s Serious”, 1 pg, Toronto, Sept. 2007.
The Fence, “This Thing”, 1 pg, Toronto, Summer 2007.
dig., “Tomorrow Is, After All”, 2 pp, Toronto, May 2007.
Poetry
Zarf, “(No Poetry)”, 1 pg, Glasgow, Jan. 2020.
SCREE, “Colonial Inferiority”, 2pp, Edinburgh, June 2011.
anything anymore anywhere, “J’ai faim”, 5pp, Edinburgh, Spring 2011.
Chroma Journal, “Ambilingual”, 1 pg, London, Winter 2008.
make/shift, “Argh” and “Weapons…”, 1pg, Los Angeles, Spring 2008.
Tower of Babble, “The Terrifying Nature…”, 1 pg, Glasgow, Autumn 2007.
Kiss Machine, “Goodbye 1”, 1 pg, Toronto, Autumn 2007.
twaddle, “Instability in a Gay Theatre…”, 1 pg, Toronto, Mar. 2007.
Rampike, Blissful Times excerpts, 2pp, Sault Ste Marie, Spring 2006.
Alucema Review, “Don’t Trust the Postcards”, 1 pg, Spain, Spring 2006.
Eldigoras , “Ir por aire/Up For Air”, 1 pg, Spain, Spring 2004.
Literary Review of Canada, “Reasons to Stay #2”, 1 pg, Toronto, Winter 2004.
Shameless Magazine, “Heavy”, 1 pg, Toronto, Sept. 2004.
This Magazine, “It Could Have Been Mad Chicken”, 1 pg, Toronto, Mar. 2004.
Navegaciones zur, “Razones para permanacer”, 1 pg, Mérida, Spring 2003.
Taddle Creek Magzine, “SASE”, 1 pg, Toronto, Winter 2001.
Prism International, “Ma Naissance (My Birth)”, 2pp, Vancouver, Winter 1999.
Anything That Moves, “Mathematics of Love”, 1 pg, San Francisco, Summer 1999.
Canadian Woman Studies, “The Rise of the PCs”, 1 pg, Toronto, Summer 1998.
Zygote, “Lineage”, 1 pg, Winnipeg, Summer 1998.
Essay Commissions
Feral Feminisms, “Able & Accessible Filmmaking”, 7pp, Toronto, 2016.
Open Letter, “Vectors in Parallel”, with a.rawlings, 4 pp, Toronto, 2011.
Write! Magazine, interview: Susan Musgrave, 2 pp, Toronto, 2000.
Arts Criticism
Xtra!, theatre & book reviews, Toronto, 2005-11.
NOW Magazine, freelance book reviews, Toronto, 2006-07.
Spew (The Theatre Centre), interviews & profiles, Toronto, 2000-03.
Theatre-ish
“Equivalence“, writer/performer, Anatomy, Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2016.
Tours: Transpose/Barbican, London, 2016; Edinburgh Filmhouse / Film Hub, 2017.
“Found In Translation”, writer/performer, Chroma / Oxford Playhouse, 2009.
Tours: Soho Theatre, London, 2010.
“The Eruption of Kilauea…”, writer/performer, Screen Bandita/SDI, 2009.
“Other Me”, writer, Scream Literary Festival, Toronto, 2005.
“Strange Attractors”, co-writer/performer, Hysteria Festival, Toronto, 2004.
“Body Geometry”, co-writer/performer, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2003.
“Seeing Each Other”, co-writer/performer, New York International Fringe, 2002.
“The Man”, writer, Waterspout Theatre, Hamilton Bermuda, 1999.
Tours: Toronto Fringe, 2000.
“Assembly” (Corrina Hodgson), performer, Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2000.
“Creed” (Corrina Hodgson), performer, Rhubarb! Festival, Toronto, 1998.
“And He Lost His Head”, performer, Bald Ego Theatre, Toronto, 1993.
Literary Performance
Glasgow / Glaschu
Glasgow International (online/STEP); UBelong (online); Zarf; Glasgow Autonomous Space; Fail Better; Arts & Precarity (Glasgow University); Feminist Methods (University of Strathclyde); Undoing Listening (Transmission Gallery); Free Pride; Scratch (Arches);
Spangled Cabaret; Words Per Minute; Initial Itch; Aye Write! (Golden Hour); Manifesto Kabaret (Tron Theatre); This Collection (Glue Factory); Stereo (with Scragfight).
Edinburgh / Dùn Èideann
Disability Equality (online/EIS); Anatomy #14 (Summerhall); Syndicate #7; Caesura #18; Leith Late Festival (3 years); Edinburgh International Book Festival (Unbound/WPM); Electric Tales (The Stand); ConVersify (Edinburgh University); Versecore (Roxy Arthouse); Inky Fingers (Forest Café); Neu! Reekie! (1st event; multiple gigs); Noisy Nights (Traverse Theatre); Click Clack Club; Pussy Whipped Festival; Ladyfest; Queer Mutiny; Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh; Scottish Poetry Library; Converge (Out of the Blue); Poetry at the… (Jekyll & Hyde); Screen Bandita; Muse-ic (Bongo Club); Wailing Banshee; Itsy’s Kabarett (Voodoo Rooms); VoxBox; The Golden Hour; West Port Book Festival (inaugural festival).
Aberdeen / Obar Dheathain
Women Art Revolution! (Belmont Picture House); Suffragette City (The Tunnels).
London
Last Words (Roundhouse); Transpose (Barbican); Soho Theatre; London Museum; Jawdance (Apples & Snakes, Rich Mix); Sage & Time; Bar Wotever; Ladyfest 10; Gays Aloud Squat; Are You Sitting Comfortably? (Fox & The Teller/Abney Park Cemetery); Express Excess; Farrago Poetry (RADA); Hot August Fringe (RVT); Incite!; GFest; (Cochrane Theatre); Well Furnished.
Other UK & Europe
Wysling Arts Centre (online/Oxford); Oxford Playhouse; Voices in the Gallery (online/ John Hansard Gallery/University of Southampton); Crippled & Queer (online/Disability Arts Cymru, Cardiff);Ledbury Poetry Festival; Birmingham City University; SHOUT Festival (Birmingham); Homotopia Festival (Liverpool); Pussy Whipped (Manchester); Debt Records Presents (Manchester); Moor Music Festival (Skipton); Suwanne’s Clit Club (ADM, Amsterdam); Alternaqueer (Queeristan, Amsterdam); Entzaubert DIY Film Festival (Berlin); Café d’espacio (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).
Toronto / Tkaronto
Bi+ Arts Festival; AvantGarden; Impossible Words; Alterna-queer; The Secret Handshake; Influency (University of Toronto); The Art Bar; LabCab Festival (Factory Theatre); Toronto New School of Writing; Test Reading Series; Pride Toronto; Harbourfront Centre; Word on the Street; The Scream Literary Festival; Idler Pub Reading Series; Get Your Lit Out (Art Metropole); Lexiconjury; I.V. Lounge; Syntactic Sundays; Strong Words; Canadian Festival of Spoken Word; Kat Biscuits; Cheap Queers; Clit Lit; Leftwords; The Pontiac Quarterly; Poetic License; BITE; Vixens & Storytellers; Pope Squat; Toronto Small Press Book Fair.
Other North America / Turtle Island
Kingston Writers Festival; Thrive (Kingston); SLS/LitPop (Montréal); VERSeFest (Ottawa); Ottawa International Writers’ Festival; AB Series (Ottawa); Grey Borders (Ste Catharines); The Hillside Festival (Guelph); University of Guelph Queer Identities; Manitoulin Island Libraries Festival; Mariposa Festival (Orillia); The Biscuit Eater (Mahone Bay); Venus Envy (Halifax); The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity; Pink Pony (New York); Frequency (New York); Flow Sundays (Bermuda); FONCA (Mérida).
Multimedia Event Curation
Cachín Cachán Cachunga!, independent, Edinburgh/Glasgow, 2009-present.
Qrip Shielders Solstice Salon, independent, online/Glasgow, 2022.
A Wake, with Birds of Paradise, online/Glasgow, 2020.
Disabled and Deaf LGBTQIA+ Pride, The Space, Glasgow, 2018.
Who’s Your Dandy?, with Filmhouse & Film Hub Scotland, Edinburgh, 2016-17.
Cobourg Poetry & Literary Arts Festival, with impresario Gallery, Cobourg, 2012.
Clandestina, with Toronto Women’s Bookstore, Toronto, 2012.
An Edinburgh Zine & Small Press Fair, with Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 2011.
Faceplant, with Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 2010-11.
Who’s Your Dandy?, independent, Edinburgh, 2007-08.
Artists Against War: One Big Know, independent, Toronto City Hall, 2006.
Silent Slam, with National Poetry Month, Drake Hotel, Toronto, 2005.
B.A.N.G. Cabaret, for The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2004.
Second Tongues, for Salvador Allende Arts Festival, Toronto, 2004.
Language Lounge, with The Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, 2004.
All About Us, with Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2002-03.
Mouth Music, with The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2000.
Education
School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Advanced Graham Technique, 1992-2001.
University of Toronto Drama Programme, BA hons. with high distinction, 2000.