Fishing in Dungeness; Writing, reading, and rewriting traditional stories through queer experience

In 2025 I set out to write a retelling of the traditional story, The Ballad of Lord Bateman. Fishing in Dungeness was an experimental creative critical paper which explored the process of writing and re-writing, writing through, with and alongside, traditional tales and queer lives. It gave voice to the peculiar ways in which the stories we have known for decades, and which our cultures have known for centuries, are knotted into the fibres of identity, place, experience and creative practice.