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c.f. prior is a writer, editor, and researcher.

Guided by a preoccupation with hospitality, mutual dependence, and loss, they produce texts, collective experiences, and objects that undermine attempts to keep us from one another. Through research into literary, visual, and material cultures, Prior articulates the ways our experiences of illness, relationships, and grief are necessarily bound up with those of others’ and invites the reader, participant, and/or viewer to join them in the search for a more interdependent world.

They are represented by Jess Lee at the literary agency A. M. Heath.

Selected writing

  • 2024

    • Essay in Prototype 6, Prototype press
    • 2024: Article: Making Space, RA Magazine
    • Review: YaYa Yajie Liang Dreams of an Interconnected World, The Debutante

  • 2023

    Resources:

    • Looking at the RA Collection: Colour
    • with Assemble Play: PLAY
    • Looking at the RA Collection: Climate

  • 2022

    Essay: Lifting the Lid: on Psilocybin and Grief, Frieze

  • 2021

    • Week long journal: Sickbed eating, Fortified Gazette
    • Dissertation: After Hours: Spatiality and Daily Writing, RHUL
    • Essay: At the edges: public sex on film, Open City Docs Non-Fiction film journal

  • 2020

    Essay: Road to Nowhere, Girls on Tops

  • 2018

    • Essay: Escape to the Country: The queer countryside, Unbound anthology: STIM
    • Somerset House Studios Profiles: Florence Peake, Libby HeaneyZinzi Minott, Manu Luksch, Jayisha Patel
    • Profile: Akram Khan, Pylot

  • 2017

    • Review Alcohol: Soviet Anti Alcohol Posters, FUEL in Art Quarterly
    • Preview Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection, Tate Modern in Art Quarterly
    • Preview Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity, National Maritime Museum in Art Quarterly

Selected grants and awards


2023

  • Grant recipient: The Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust
  • Longlist: Prototype Development prize 2023
  • Longlist: Michael O’Pray Prize 2023


2020

  • Bradley de Glehn English Scholarship, full scholarship in support of MA study
  • Shortlist: Penguin WriteNow


2019

  • Longlist: London Library Writer in Residence

Selected conferences, talks, and facilitation experience

2024

  • Facilitator: Writing workshop for Michael Craig Martin AccessArt25 museum late at the RA
  • Workshop leader, we don’t write alone: an experimental writing group
    • Summer term: First turn to me. . . .: writing sex, love, and friendship
    • Spring term: Cohabitation
    • Winter term: Inhabitation


2023

  • Workshop leader, we don’t write alone: an experimental writing group
    • Autumn term: Experiments and strategies in writing from life
  • Facilitator: Writing workshop for Marina Abramovic AccessArt25 museum late at the RA
  • Workshop leader: Writing in the museum
  • RHUL MA Showcase: Reading from Everyone Should Get This at The Art Workers’ Guild

Selected editorial and production experience

2024

  • Producer: short film Making Space at the RA
  • Producer: short film attRAct at the RA


2023

  • Editor and producer: Looking at Marina Abramovic, a resource for young people
  • Series editor and producer: Families at the RA Collection, a suite of resources for families:
    • The Natural World
    • The Body
    • Architecture
    • History


2021/2

Series editor and producer: Looking at the RA Collection, a suite of resources for teachers, schools, and independent researchers:

  • Climate
  • Experiments
  • Citizenship
  • Emotions
  • The Body and Space
  • Storytelling


2020

Sensitivity reader:

  • Vesper Flights, Helen MacDonald
  • The Moonday Letters, Emmi Itäranta
  • Adam-2, Alastair Chisholm

2020

Commissioning editor: Commissioned five writers to live with and respond to Evan Roth’s Red Lines

2017-2019

Founding editor: 3 of Cups Press

  • On Relationships
  • On Anxiety
  • On Bodies

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