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Books

Westerly: Oceans

A Special issue of Westerly Magazine guest edited by Prema Arasu.

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The Book of Sea Monsters

An anthology of stories about sea monsters. Forthcoming with Bloomsbury (September 2025).

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Vampire Squid

A book of poetry about the deep sea. Forthcoming with Fremantle Press (2026).

Creative Writing

Poems

Ode on a Blobfish

on (fish) murder as one of the fine arts

squid phone

banana

frag/ments

bodies-fragments-boundaries

Stories

Blue Cube

The Timekeeper

The Lunar Ritual

Eldritch Academia Vignettes

The Dream of Saul

Spaghetti

Creative Nonfiction

Fencing Lessons with Hermaphroditic Flatworms

A Short History of the Ocean

Research

Deep Sea

‘Icarus of the deep’: how a dying anglerfish became a social media sensation

The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov

Advanced darkness: the deep sea in children's media

The lure of the deep sea: anglerfish as movie monsters

They say we know more about the moon than about the deep sea. They’re wrong.

Reply to: People do care about the deep sea. A comment on Jamieson et al. (2020)

Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships

Video Games

Lovecraftian games: the afterlife of Cthulhu on Valve's Steam client.

Review: Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity by Jaroslav Švelch. 

Hogwarts Legacy’s game mechanics reflect the gender essentialism at the heart of Harry Potter.

Starfield is the latest game to be boycotted by conservatives. This time because of pronouns

Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Girl wizards and boy witches: gender in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

All the disc's a stage: Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters as metafiction

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials: recreating Paradise Lost as a narrative of adolescence

Review: Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins and Jerry Määttä, eds. Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation

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