A selection of links to recently published written and recorded work, often under the nom de plume Cornelius Fitz:

Fiction/Non-Fiction

• ‘A Year in a Puddle’, Firmament magazine, Spring 2021
• ‘The Toad’, Shooter literary magazine, 2021
• Matilda and the Tardigrades, a non-fiction essay in The Tangerine (Issue 5) – Spring 2018
• Mere Oblivion, a short story in Tragickal – May 2018
• A Foot in Meinong’s Jungle, received a Commendation for the ACF London Writing Prize 2017
• Snails, a short story in Berfrois – April 2017
• Profundity is a slim volume by an obscure European author, a creative non-fiction essay in Minor Literature(s) – March 2017
• Balls, a short story in STORGY – January 2017

Book Reviews

• Disclosing Being: On Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson, a book review for 3:AM Magazine – 6.12.2016
• Reviews for the Times Literary Supplement from 2010 to 2016.

Concert Reviews

• Review of Verdi’s Un ballo in machera at Opera North, Leeds February 2018
• Review of Opera North’s Little Greats: Pagliacci and L’enfant et les sortilèges. September 2017
• Review of Opera North’s Turandot in Leeds for Seen & Heard Int’l. April 2017
• Reviews of Schubert and Ravel at Leeds Lieder 2017 for Seen & Heard Int’l. April 2017
• A review of the festival launch for Leeds Lieder 2017, a recital featuring Sarah Connolly (mezzo) and Joseph Middleton (piano), for Seen & Heard International 30.11.2016 

Other

• An extract of my Masters dissertation on the speculative aesthetics of human extinction, which received the inaugural Verso Prize, appeared on the Verso Books blog: ‘Speculative Aesthetics: Freeports as the Art Caves of High Finance’. 28.11.2016
  

Podcasts

• Audiobook podcast of Baker Street 2033: The Glass Cryptographer, a future Sherlock Holmes mystery. Available on Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Acast, Google, etc.

• Literary hoax and hardboiled noir based on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s life, Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir (2023).

• Modern Gothic – an anthology of weird stories (2024).

• Day Trips for Nihilists – meandering dream-like audio essays finding meaning in a meaningless world:

Soundtracks & Songs

• Appernack

https://soundcloud.com/appernack