The Grapevine is an online art and literary magazine that I co-founded in 2015. Our current project is Grapevine Editions, a series of collaborative pamphlets between writers and visual artists. Grapevine Editions 001 is a collaboration between me and photographer Anthony Elliott. Folds interrogates the space between memory and reality. Drawing on journal entries, text… Continue reading Grapevine Editions 001: Folds
Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com My story about sex and tea is part of Fruit Journal's second issue. Clara came round to tell me that she had a dependant attachment style. “What does that mean, then?”I mean for me, what does that mean for me? “It means that I chase what I can’t have… Continue reading Love Story- Fruit Journal
I have a piece in Make Me Money and Don't Piss me Off an unofficial The Apprentice poetry anthology by SPAM zine. My writing, a collaborative piece with Lousie Evans, is a spoof wikiHow article about how to get your boss to listen to you. It's £3 and you can buy it here.
After feeling anxious for years, first in childhood stomach aches, then in the mid-twenties chest pains, both times with the dread, the worry, the terror, a doctor said to me: So, do you wanna go on sertraline? And I said: Yeah. The person Laura was fucking at the time, a quiet Irishman into watersports like… Continue reading Love and Sertraline -Entropy Mag
I had a short piece of fiction published on Severine Lit. In Italy, we were together every afternoon. I liked this even when he dominated me, said this is the way we look around a museum, we tend to have a nap at this time, and get on the bed and let me see you… Continue reading In Italy with Sean
"As a child I had my rituals" I have a poem in The Aleph Anthology, The Sacred Exists To Be Found. Available to buy here.
I spoke to Jessica Andrews and Jack Young about my writing, sexuality and painful childhood for their Tender Buttons podcast. https://soundcloud.com/tenderbuttonspodcast/episode-2-catherine-madden
I wrote about crying on my birthday for Oh Comely magazine's 50th edition. Below is an extract: I turned 29 this year and, on my birthday, planned to meet my boyfriend in the William Morris Gallery. When he got there though, strolling in confidently I imagine, he couldn’t find me. I had arrived before him… Continue reading Crying on My Birthday
Anthony Elliott has made this beautiful piece concerning the river Thames and information about mushrooms, voiced by me and Wail Qasim, we read from Food for Free by Richard Mabey and Edible Fungi by John Ramsbottom. https://soundcloud.com/anthony-elliott-451000818/river-fungi
Tilly and I are laughing in a big cafe full of suits on lunch. A well dressed and middle aged man sitting in front of us turns around: Great laughing... This story was first published on The Grapevine, which is an arts and literary zine that I co-founded.
Catherine Madden 