Writing
My work spans poetry, plays, interactive fiction, and non-fiction. I was the winner of the Creative Future Writer's Award for poetry (2024), and a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. I was shortlisted for the Hastings Book Festival Poetry Prize (2024). In 2023, I was commissioned by Chronic Insanity's Digital Literary Department. My work has been featured on BBC Upload and BBC Radio Oxford as well as in the publications listed below.
I'm an experienced facilitator, having delivered writing workshops for Fusion Arts, Coastal Currents, and the Ashmolean Museum. I've run 'well-led and gentle open space[s]… with everyone given time and care' for young people, homeless and vulneraly housed people, and those struggling with mental illness. I founded Getting Started with Poetry, Oxford Poetry Library's flagship workshop series, and facilitated monthly sessions for those new to writing poetry from 2022-2023. and remain part of the OPL volunteer coordination team.
You can contact me here: hello@mayalittle.co.uk and read a full list of publications below:
Poems
The fundamental problem with us is you would never have come to Olympic Island - The Broken Spine (forthcoming)
The pollarded tree still blossoms! - Channel Magazine (Issue 12)
Remember how my love light blooms - Drawn to the Light Press
Childe of Hale (read here) - Creative Future Writer's Award Anthology 2024
Imagine Feeling The Curve of the Moon - Oxford Public Philosophy
Poem for Somewhere Else – Hypaethral
The Stretch and The Last Gods - Young Poets Network
Salt Pillars, To Know You Backwards, I have nice dreams about you - Ash
Cormorant, Items seen from a third floor window, Park Ranger With Torch - Pekes and Policles
Other writing
ONLYCONNECT - a digital choose-your-own-adventure about rentable friends. You can play ONLYCONNECT (mobile only) through the Chronic Insanity Archive.
The Life That is Waiting For Us - The Rambling
Who made this world? 'work.txt' reviewed - Oxford Public Philosophy
Milk Tray – The Oxford Review of Books (Short fiction prize winner, 2019, judged by Julia Armfield)
In Praise of Letters – The Isis
A Room (and a narrator) with a View - English and Media Centre Emag
Great Expectations - English and Media Centre Emag