Jack Young

🌱 Writer | Queer Ecologies
❇️ Participatory artist
🎙️ Co-Host @buttons_tender: ✒️ :

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

My hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies URTH is out now alongside the @_SpikeIsland residency 🐛🍄🌱

Part folk-horror, part camp-gothic, part post-gentrification city writing, finding the Weird everywhere. You can order below 🔗👇 (1/2)

https://t.co/NR8zk9N6Oj

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

@prototypepubs @tomtivnan so so deserved, congrats Jess!

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Loved chatting with Helen Oyeyemi about her new novel Parasol Against the Axe, as well as the through lines of play, perplexity, shape-shifting narrators, that weave across her work. Listen here:

https://t.co/lVGzCK41SI

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

New episode with the legendary Helen Oyeyemi! We chat about her dizzying new novel Parasol Against the Axe, writing Prague, shape-shifting narratives, the role of play and perplexity across her work & so much more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks 👇🏻🎧️

https://t.co/Ur0e4i6BBw

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Loved talking to Andrew McMillan about his novel PITY: how the novel can hold multiple truths, the need to find a new language to talk about the past & community, the dangers of describing post-industrial towns by their lack or an absence & so much more 👇🎧

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks 👇🎧

https://t.co/QoalAZXuJ0

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks 👇🎧

https://t.co/QoalAZXuJ0

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Thrilled to be chatting to the very brilliant Jean-Baptise del Amo @StanfordsBrist about his new book with @FitzcarraldoEds ' The Son of Man' on 29.5.24. Tickets below 👇🔥

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Was such an honour to host this live episode with @AnnieBrooker_ last week in-house @StorysmithBooks, we covered so much in this conversation: around politics of care, activist affordances, play as world-making & much, much more 👇

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

New LIVE episode with Marianne Brooker 🎙️🌋

We discuss her new book Intervals, the politics of care, writing as reparative magic, intersections of class, gender and disability and so much more @StorysmithBooks @FitzcarraldoEds @AnnieBrooker_ 👇🎧

https://t.co/PMyw3yBW6s

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

Listened to our Sheila Heti ep. yet? We discuss hybrid forms, what it means to write away from a 'writer' performance, the rhythm & materiality of language, pushing the boundaries of the novel and much more @FitzcarraldoEds @StorysmithBooks

https://t.co/943z0ku6Dm

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Thrilled to share our latest episode with Sheila Heti: we go deep into her new book Alphabetical diaries, writing like painting, against linear time & continuous ideas of the self, hybridity of form & much, much more

https://t.co/lFXdWmlNHu

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

New episode with Sheila Heti 🎙️🔥

We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more 👇
https://t.co/943z0ku6Dm

@StorysmithBooks

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

New episode with Sheila Heti 🎙️🔥

We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more 👇
https://t.co/943z0ku6Dm

@StorysmithBooks

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

New episode with Nathalie Olah (@nrolah) 🔥 🎙️

We talk about her brilliant new book Bad Taste & ideas of cultural capital, social mobility, Pamela Anderson & Dolly Parton, austerity aesthetics, & the politics of scarcity & much more. Listen here 👇🎧

https://t.co/zExLlKa8V0

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

@AnnieBrooker_ @DauntBooksPub @FitzcarraldoEds Incredible Annie! <3

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

@lunatejournal such a joy to be here! <3

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Honoured to have my eerie short story of grief, graveyards and ghost plants in the new issue of @lunatejournal , amongst very fine company indeed. Limited edition, pre-orders below (very few left apparently!): https://t.co/jgizwheoLv

[eli 🥞🇵🇸 @_elinorlower]

bristol people interested in writing! we're doing a creative workshop about writing into / against gaps in history. come queer / disrupt sh*t with us! 🌸🔪

no previous writing experience necessary (but confident writers definitely v welcome)

> > https://t.co/4GjdN789Sq

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

Checked out our episode with Eliza Clark yet? We chat violence and true crime, regional inequality, Brexit, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks 👇 🎧

https://t.co/28WKRkPY8q

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

We chatted to Eliza Clark about transgression in fiction, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks

https://t.co/28WKRkPY8q

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

@ZakiyaMedia absolutely! Can't wait to share it with you, and massive congrats again on PhD news Zakiya, proud of you! <3

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

Listened to our new episode with Eliza Clark yet? 🎧

we chat about violence & transgression in fiction, true crime, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks (1/2)👇 🔥

https://t.co/28WKRkPY8q

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

@ZakiyaMedia huge congrats Zakiya! 🔥💜

[Jack Young @JMDemus]

Loved chatting to Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza ) about true crime, the internet, toxic media, Brexit shadows in fiction, difficult female characters and so much more. Check out here! 👇🎧

https://t.co/syJ8CBa365

[Tender Buttons Podcast @buttons_tender]

New episode with Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza) 🎉🔥

We chat violence & transgression, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more 👇🎧(1/2)

https://t.co/SRLCP7TYXl