Arianne Maki

Publications:
⋆˙⟡ Gutter
⋆˙⟡ Scottish BPOC Writers Network

Awards:
⋆˙⟡ Our Voices Creative Scotland 2021
⋆˙⟡ SI Leeds Prize shortlist 2022
⋆˙⟡ Future Worlds Prize shortlist 2023
⋆˙⟡ Penguin Write Now shortlist 2024

My practice is rooted in the porous boundaries between species, knowledge systems, timescales, and between fact and fiction. With curiosity and devotion, my work is grounded in the sacred mundane and the often overlooked: an abundance of street plums, the scent of the soil after a sudden summer rain, sawfly galls on a tender willow leaf. In my writing, grief is embodied in the senescence of moss creatures, spiders are fortune-telling creators of the universe, and blossoms are recalcitrance made into matter. Yearning and desire are multispecies emotions - as is grief, as is memory, as is evolution.

Find me on Instagram @feralsayang or on Beehiiv at ariannemaki.beehiiv.com

Other work:
⋆˙⟡ In conversation with Sheilan
⋆˙⟡ Dreaming our futures podcast series
⋆˙⟡ In conversation with Josie Rae Turnbull