Lindsey Allen

currently thinking about: calaminarian grasslands and medical models of repair

Selected Writing:

Fallow; ongoing, awarded the 2025 Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Award
Care Time; Designing on Crip Time (Sticky Fingers Publishing), 2024
While I write this essay, my pain thinks about entering a poetry competition; Sick Magazine, Issue 5, 2023

Selected Projects:

“More devices, more words, more transformations”: metaphor, pain, and the body (ongoing); Unwired Currents - Imagining Technologies Differently. fellowship with Futuress
In Nature and Getting Stuck (2025); essay and publication. commissioned by National Trust
Community Hub Storyteller (2025); the stories of two community hubs, WECIL (West of England Centre for Inclusive Living) and Avonmouth Community Centre. commissioned by Bristol City Council
We Welcome as Many Disabled People as Possible (2024); hand-drawn typography, A1 posters. Creative Youth Network residency
Collaging the Harbourside (2023-2024); storyteller, community engagement. commissioned by Bristol City Council and DK-CM
Journalling Care (2022-ongoing); participatory research project, creative journalling
Cripping Restoration (2021); research project, library and place-based
The Body in Tower Hamlets Cemetery (2021); visual essay
A Seascape Abstracted (2017); audiovisual
i cling to you hoping we both drown (2016); graphic score
not sure it’s a job for women (Spike Island Test Space, 2015); iPod nano, paint, ink
Politics of Representation (Spike Island Test Space, 2015); curation

(Some) skills:

Writing, DIY publishing, academic research (including ethnographic research), workshop facilitation, sound composition, coding (html/css/javascript/python), Adobe Suite

About

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I am an award-winning writer, researcher, and designer based in Bristol. I think and work in the intersections of care, time, disability, and the natural environment - aiming to platform disabled knowledge and lived experience.

All my work is grounded in anthropological methods, exploring how people understand the world they live in, and their hopes and imaginaries around how this world could be.

My writing is focused on creative non-fiction and the essay form. In my broader creative practice, I make socially-engaged and participatory work, utilising caring methodologies.

Research Interests:

care nature disability community justice time

lindseyallen@outlook.com