Writing Work

Elspeth Walker is a writer with a focus on Creative Non-fiction, Fiction and Art Writing. She has worked with various artists, and organisations creating a variety of work. She has studied BA (hons) English Literature & Creative Writing at Warwick University, and holds an MA in Writing from the Royal College of Art, London.

Walker’s writing has been published in various magazines and journals, including CLOT, Culturala, SICK Magazine, and Ache. Her pamphlet ‘Dedications’ was published by If a Leaf Falls Press in 2024.  In 2022 she was runner up Young-Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery with her essay The Egg of Whitechapel.

Dedications

Dedications is my first pamphlet, published with If a Leaf Falls Press in 2024.

This debut offers us a series of both very real and completely fake dedications, exploring the intimacy that is given to the often looked over part of the book.

This collection was reviewed by Elida Silvey in the New Cambridge Chapbook Review - Issue 2.

Magazines, Journals and Articles

Pamphlets & Zines

Since studying at the RCA my writing practice has evolved to explore materiality and form - writing as an object - alongside creating within the indie publishing and zine sphere.

These works are stocked across the UK at Burley Fishers Bookshop, TACO, Good Press, and Forma. They are also found at National Poetry Library, London, RCA Library, and the Beinecke Library, Yale, USA.

Many of these are also available via my online shop!

Publications:

  • Barcode Poetry, 2025

  • Haikus from the Seam-ripper, 2025

  • Inventory of the tops of bus shelters in London, 2025

  • The Moths have Returned, 2025

  • This Place of No Sleep, 2024

  • Pub Girl, 2024

  • Shadow Garden, 2024

  • The Eco-Zines, 2023

  • The Threads of Us, 2023

  • RE: Wilding of Teeth, 2023

  • My Perfume Ghost, 2023

  • The Conga Line is also for Safety, 2023

  • Ruderal, 2022

  • Tectonics, 2022

  • Cartography, 2022

  • Blued (Collaborative Zine), 2022

  • Oh Banana, 2022

Collaborations

For the past few years I have worked with many artists and organisations to produce written content, and collaborate to create works. From artist biographies and critical essays to exhibition texts and curatorial works, I’m always open and keen to work with people to deliver high quality and creative work.

Examples Include:

  • Decolonial Curatorial Kit - Collaboration with Curator Alice Kim to form a kit to help expand curators approaches to forming an inclusive exhibition space. For this we worked together, and I produced the text for the internal prompt cards.

  • Back-to-Earth.ware - Working with artist Chun Ning Yiu, I wrote an essay in response to their proposed outdoor sculptural spaces entitled - The Nature of Rest, which formed a booklet proposing natural forms to create better public spaces.

  • Liquid Gold -Mexico Artist Exchange - This collaboration was between Ramses Olaya and Araceli Gomez, where Olaya came from Mexico to exhibit in London and then Gomez put on a show at Olaya’s studio (La Superior) in Mexico City later that year. For this exchange I wrote two texts to accompany both exhibitions - Como Escbribir una Carta and Sempre Florez.