Fiction

Published or performed works of fiction, poetry and theatre

After the emergency, 2023. Published in Klang Magazine #5. 

Gorgeous (short story), 2022. Shortlisted for the Berlin Writing Prize. The Reader Berlin/Sand Journal (Prize sponsors The British Council and HALLESCHES HAUS).

Impressionism (short story), 2022. Performed at Literaturhaus, Berlin; shortlisted in a Reedsy Prompts Contest.

Lengths (short story), 2017, published in The White Review.

Two haiku, 2020, published on Japan Society Haiku Corner.

Lars Sørken (play), 2012, Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford.

The Nihilists, by Oscar Wilde (adaptation), 2011, St. Annes’s College, Oxford.

 

Selected projects, groups and workshops

2022. “Stand by Me” Lesung, Literaturhaus Berlin, reader.

2020-2021. Queere Schreibgruppe, Berlin, group participant.

2020. Haiku and Haibun (poetry workshop series), GRASSI Museum, workshop organiser.

2018-2020. Leipzig Writers’ Group, 2018-20, co-organiser.

 

Prizes and fellowships

2022. The Berlin Writing Prize shortlist. The Reader Berlin/Sand Journal (Prize sponsors The British Council and Hallesches Haus).

2012-13. Tsuzuki Scholarship to study at Japan University of Economics.

2011. The Bednarowska Shakespeare Prize, St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Recent work

“Gorgeous” (short-story) – shortlisted for The Berlin Writing Prize. Prize awarded by The Reader Berlin and Sand Journal, sponsored by The British Council and Hallesches Haus.

“How I Pulled Off a Four-Day Trip Through Germany on a €9 Ticket”, Magazine Article for Condé Nast Traveler US

The Gifted: Beauty, Pain and Loneliness. The Fall of the Football Gods, by Michael Horeni. Sample Translation for Penguin Random House, Munich (English to German)

AMAP Assessment 2021: Mercury in the Arctic, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, Norway. Technical editing.

Ocean Wild 4 x 60. Script-writing and research for a series co-production for TVF International and Tokyovision, for National Geographic Asia.