Rough Trade Books have done a lovely little edition of the script of All of This Unreal Time, and we’re screening Aoife’s film in London and Manchester where Bryce and Aaron and Jon will be playing some new music inspired by the score.
I am one of six Associate Artists at the Southbank Centre, building a new project over three years, to be premiered in 2028.
I’m chair of the judges for the International Booker Prize 2025.
I’m working with the library at HMP Erlestoke as their writer in residence for 2024-5.
Wild West, my piece about the Arms Trade, for PalFest, December 2023.
The Photographer, a five-part fiction series for BBC Radio 4, produced by Mair Bosworth and read by Tim McInnerny.
I’ve written a film called STEVE, an adaptation of Shy, and it will be made by Big Things Films and Netflix, produced by and starring Cillian Murphy, directed by Tim Mielants.
The Hill, a collaboration with Hilary Paynter, Nomad Press and Beaufort Bookshop.
Dylan Southern’s film The Thing With Feathers starring Benedict Cumberbatch is announced.
Shy, launch event at Southbank with Ruth Wilson, Toby Jones and David Alade.
National Literacy Trust event in Birmingham announced, as well as UK bookshop and festival dates.
Faber have made a lovely Member’s Edition of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers.
I’m honoured to have joined The Elmet Trust as a patron.
My piece about the arms trade, Wild West, is in TOLKA Issue Four.
Shy, coming Spring 2023.
I made a tiny radio show about Miniature Things with Geoff Bird.
Wrote a story called Daughter for the beautiful inaugural edition of INQUE Magazine.
I am now a patron of the wonderful Acorn Music Theatre Company.
Wrote a short piece on the theme of ‘trouble’ for Granta.com and The Arts House, Singapore. Pebbles.
All of this Unreal Time, Manchester International Festival, July 2021. Review here.
Max Porter Writer, Cillian Murphy Actor, Aoife McArdle Film Director
Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner & Jon Hopkins Composers
Mary Hickson Creative Producer, Michael Brown Production Designer
Three Feral Pieces with Nathan Salsburg and Bonnie “Prince” Billy available on vinyl here.
Wrote a piece about dog shit for radio 4’s Outsider’s series. It’s called Poo Fairy
Wrote a piece for Passa Porta in Brussels, called It’s So Good.
RAT, fiction in TANK magazine.
I was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020
Tunng presents: DEAD CLUB is out. I wrote two pieces for it, MAN and WOMAN.
Wrote a piece for The Gifts of Reading. All proceeds go to Room to Read, an incredibly good organisation.
Spoke to Sam and Becky from Tunng for their Dead Club podcast, about our collaboration for the forthcoming Dead Club Album
Sanjeev Bhaskar reads ‘College Green’ for Esquire’s summer fiction special, in aid of Unicef UK.
Wrote a short piece for Aitken Alexander’s lockdown series.
Collaborated with Joan Shelley on Bed in the River.
It’s Going To Be a Bright New Day: Would You Rather with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, published by Rough Trade Books
Lanny is going to be a film.
Fan letter on Paul McCarthy’s ‘Piccadilly Circus’ for Frieze
The Myth of the Mole, with Steven J Fowler, in POETRY.
An introduction to Picador’s reissue of Denise Riley’s Time Lived, Without Its Flow
I wrote a piece about my son and Wilfried Zaha for Mundial
I contributed to We’ll Never Have Paris, edited by Andrew Gallix
‘Proper Modern Man’ in Pursuit
Jerome’s Study, with Catrin Morgan, published by Test Centre
Complicite and Wayward’s production of Grief is The Thing With Feathers adapted by Enda Walsh, starring Cillian Murphy, London and NYC tickets on sale.
Lanny reading at The Southbank
'Mrs Charlbury at Eltham' for English Heritage Eight Ghosts.
Brother: State of Mind for Granta Magazine
'Ground', for Nicola Hicks' Keep Dark
For my friend David
Dying on the Toilet in The Paris Review
Alice Oswald in The White Review
