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

Landlock - Oxford Blue

Later – State of the Arts

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)

Soulless Places – The Isis

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