Blacklock Catalogue

Writing J·F·S·ED

J·054Bombs AwayThe Fence, 2026profile of Victor Lewis-Smith
J·053Raves, Brecht and Re-Enacting Diana's Funeral: the White Hotel Bows Out as the North's Bravest Music VenueThe Guardian, 2026
J·052How the World Declared War on AmericaThe New Statesman, 2026
J·051'Go Back Home': Farage Schoolmate Accounts Bring Total Alleging Racist Behaviour to 34The Guardian, 2026
ED·005Offal, Issue 3co-editor with Rod Stanley — journal of experimental fiction and non-fiction, October 2026
J·050Nigel Farage Told to Apologise by 26 of His School ContemporariesThe Guardian, 2025
J·049Nigel Farage: Former Dulwich College Pupil Alleges He Said 'That's the Way Back to Africa'The Guardian, 2025
J·048Three More Ex-Pupils at School with Nigel Farage Reject 'Banter' ClaimsThe Guardian, 2025
J·047Twenty People Allege He Has a Racist Past. He Denies It. Who's Telling the Truth about Farage's Schooldays?The Guardian, 2025
J·046Starmer Calls Farage 'Spineless' over Racism AllegationsThe Guardian, 2025
J·045Nigel Farage Allegations of Racist Behaviour at SchoolThe Guardian, 2025
J·044'Deeply Shocking': Nigel Farage Faces Fresh Claims of Racism and Antisemitism at SchoolThe Guardian, 2025
J·043The Beadlean LibraryThe Fence, 2025
ED·004Offal, Issue 2co-editor with Rod Stanley — journal of experimental fiction and non-fiction, 2025winner, D&AD Small Press Award
J·042Humphrey's World: How the Samuel Smith Beer Baron Built Britain's Strangest Pub ChainThe Guardian, 2024
J·041The Met Gala is a Ballardian NightmareUnHerd, 2024
J·040Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, TomorrowLiterary Review, 2024
J·039Heading Down T'GrouchieOff The Fence, 2024
ED·003Offal, Issue 1co-editor with Rod Stanley — journal of experimental fiction and non-fiction, 2024
J·038J.G. Ballard Was Not a ProphetUnHerd, 2023
J·037Deputy boarding school head jailed for sexually abusing pupilsThe Times, 2023
J·036Wearside Jack — A Lethal Hoaxvideo, Sunderland Echo, 2023
J·035Why You Want to Be a MillionaireUnHerd, 2023
J·034The Gladiatorial Art of the Quiz ShowUnHerd, 2023
J·033Non-Places Are Robbing Us of LifeUnHerd, 2023on Marc Augé
J·032The Inside Story of the Predator Who Bought a SchoolThe Telegraph, 2023Brian Martin and Queen Ethelburga’s
J·031Taxi Cab ConfessionalsThe Fence, 2023
J·030Mr Martin Bought the SchoolThe Fence, 2023
J·029A Manifold Dwelling: How Gemma Anderson-Tempini Built a Higher Spatial Homecatalogue essay, And She Built a Crooked House, Artangel, 2023
ED·002Terminal Documents: Selected Nonfiction of J.G. Ballard, 1962–2007as editor, MIT Press, 2023

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Teaching & Events T·EV

EV·026Offal #2 Launch @ Set Social16 July 2025
EV·025Offal @ Goldsmiths CCA / Sophie Podolsky2 July 2025
EV·024Offal @ Stack17 June 2025
EV·023'A Taste of Offal' @ FOOD4 June 2025
EV·022Offal @ Birkbeck20 May 2025
EV·021Offal @ Ad England BookshopManchester, 26 January 2025
T·009The Gothiclecture, MASSOLIT, Genre in Literature, June 2024
T·008Royal Literary Fund FellowUniversity of Leeds, 2022–24
T·007Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary LiteratureBirkbeck College, University of London, 2018–present
EV·020Documentary Fiction: In Conversation with Nat OgleBirkbeck College, 2021
EV·019Conference organiser, Interactive Digital Narrative Workshopwith Alan Trotter, Birkbeck College, 2020
EV·018In Conversation with Jenny TurnerBirkbeck College, 2019
EV·017What I Believe: In Conversation with Toby LittBirkbeck College, 2019
EV·016In Conversation with Paddy LangleyWaterstones, Islington, 2018
EV·015Renegade: In Conversation with Austin CollingsBirkbeck College, 2018
EV·014In Conversation with Jenny TurnerBirkbeck College, 2018
T·006Programme Director, MA Cultural and Critical StudiesBirkbeck College, 2015–18 — curriculum design, recruitment, Verso Books prize sponsorship
T·005Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary LiteratureBirkbeck College, 2015–18
EV·013True Crime: “Fiction is Far More True than Any Journalism”University of Salford, 2017
EV·012In Conversation with Jayne JosoBirkbeck College, 2017
EV·011Contemporary Gothicworkshop and lecture, York Literary Festival, 2017
EV·010In Conversation with Max PorterPeckham Literary Festival, 2016
EV·009Sound Frontiers: H.G. Wellspanel with Louisa Treger, Joanna Kavenna and Christopher Priest, London/York Literature Festival, 2016
EV·008In Conversation with Evie Wyld and Max PorterWaterstones, Trafalgar Square, 2016
EV·007Conference organiser, True Crime FictionsBirkbeck College, 2016
EV·006The Story of Wearside JackDurham Literary Festival, 2015
EV·005With Danny RhodesEdinburgh Literary Festival, 2015
EV·004Hocus PocusThe Idea of Death, with Austin Collings, Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester, 2015
EV·003Island HoppingThink Tank, Tom McCarthy's Fig.2 installation, ICA, 2015
T·004Associate Lecturer, MA Victorian StudiesBirkbeck College, 2014–15

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Artworks & Miscellaneous W·M

W·017Offal #36Offal, 15 July 2026
W·016Offal #35 — Offalism 004Offal, 22 June 2026
W·015Offal #34 — Offalism 003Offal, 22 April 2026
W·014Offal #33 — Offalism 002Offal, 25 March 2026
W·013Offal #32 — Offalism 001Offal, 9 February 2026
W·012Offal #31 — Lubricate Reality With Dreams (A Finale)Offal, 23 December 2025
W·011Offal #30 — Let Us Go Then, You and OffalOffal, 18 November 2025
W·010Offal #29 — A Brave and Heartfelt Rejection of our Founding IdealsOffal, 16 October 2025
W·009Offalmix #3 — 'delta'Offal, 1 October 2025
W·008Offal #28 — Offalmercials #2Offal, 14 September 2025
W·007Offal Soup #2 — A Question of IntimacyOffal, 29 September 2025 — written by Blacklock, produced by Gavin Weale
W·006Offal Audio 2Offal Industries, 2023
M·021Free Thinking: Ballard's Crashbroadcast, BBC Radio 3, 2023
M·020Open Book: J.G. Ballard Nonfictionbroadcast, BBC Radio 4, 2023
W·005Offal Audio 1Offal Industries, 2023
W·0044-D Polytopescollaborating writer, with artist Gemma Anderson, Artangel — ongoing
W·003The Dangers of Setting Up an Autonomous Process in the Mindartefact, with Rod Stanley and Gavin Weale, 2023
M·019Contestant, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?ITV, July 2021
W·002Exquisite Corpuscollaboration with the Talk to Transformer neural network, 2021
W·001@NeuromanglerTwitter-bot generated from the opening line of Neuromancer, 2021
M·018Free Thinking: Salman Rushdiebroadcast, BBC Radio 3, 2021
M·017Open Book: Science in Fictionbroadcast, BBC Radio 4, 2020
M·016Free Thinking: Alternative Realitiesbroadcast, BBC Radio 3, 2020
M·015EHSCN grantInteractive Digital Narrative Workshop, £750
M·014To Choose Brexit Is to Choose to Lose, Say Writersopen letter, The Guardian, 21 May 2019
M·013Free Thinking: Eimear McBridebroadcast, BBC Radio 3, 2017
M·012Inaugural Verso Prize for Cultural and Critical Studiesannounced, 2016
M·011Sound Frontiers: H.G. Wellsbroadcast, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 2016
M·010Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities grantTrue Crime Fictions conference, £500
M·009Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities grantTrue Crime Fictions symposium, £500

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Press coverage not catalogued — a sample, 32 in full

Offal Magazine is Making AI Fall OverStack Magazines — Stack Magazines, 17 October 2025
Good Reads: Offal Journal Offers Up a Literary FeastCreative Review — Creative Review, August 2025
The Stack — OffalMonocle — Monocle Radio, 23 August 2025
Review of OffalWeb Curios — Web Curios newsletter, 18 July 2025
Podcasts of the Week — Review of OffalThe Guardian — The Guardian, December 2024
Collected — Podcast Interview with Mark BlacklockRoyal Literary Fund — Royal Literary Fund, 14 November 2024

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