International Theory-Fiction Consortium
The International Theory-Fiction Consortium brings together people working in this area to share work and explore new ventures in the context of the fragmentation and decline of traditional media. To subscribe to the consortium newsletter on Substack, click here.
Member bios
A. J. MOORE is currently completing a creative-critical PhD on Archives, Intertextuality and Identity at the University of Sheffield. Work in Objects (Dunlin Press), The Sheffield Review/Route 57, Blackbox Manifold, D.O.R, eYeland, For The Love Of, The Babel Tower Noticeboard, Beir Bua Journal. Chapbooks M(P)atriarchive (Beir Bua Press) and Zeitgeist (c22 Press). Debut full-length collection Reference ≠ Endorsement forthcoming from Erratum Press (Autumn 2025). She is a founder member of Cut Collective Writers: cutcollectivewriters.org
ÁGNES LEHÓCZKY’s poetry collections published in the UK are Budapest to Babel (Egg Box), Rememberer (Egg Box), Carillonneur (Shearsman), Swimming Pool (Shearsman), Lathe Biosas, or on Dreams & Lies (Crater Press) and Apropos Paradise Square (Pamenar Press, 2025). She also has three full poetry collections in Hungarian published in Budapest: Ikszedik stáció (Universitas, 2000), Medalion (Universitas, 2002) and Palimpszeszt (Magyar Napló, 2015). She is the author of the academic monograph Poetry, the Geometry of Living Substance – comprising four essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Her pamphlet Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters was published by Boiler House Press. She co-edited major international anthologies: the Sheffield Anthology (Smith/Doorstop) with Adam Piette, The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley (Boiler House) with Zoë Skoulding, Wretched Strangers (Boiler House) with J. T. Welsch and most recently the ‘Monk Collective’ with Adam Piette (Blackbox Manifold). Fission of Being – Endnotes on Earthbound was commissioned by The Roberts Institute of Art, London. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield. She’s currently working on translations of Attila József and István Vörös with Adam Piette.
ANDREW C. WENAUS is a literary theorist, writer, poet, painter, and composer. His books include The Literature of Exclusion (Lexington Books, 2021), Jeff Noon’s Vurt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Libretto Lunaversitol (Calamari Archive, 2024), and, with Germán Sierra, Zipf Maneuvers (Erratum Academic Division, 2025). Alongside Christina Marie Willatt, he composes electro-acoustic scores for theatre, film, and dance. Wenaus teaches at the University of Western Ontario.
ANSGAR ALLEN is editor-in-chief at Erratum Press, is the author of books including Midden Hill, The Sick List and The Wake and the Manuscript, and is the founder-convener of the International Theory-Fiction Consortium.
CLARE FISHER is a prose writer. Their first novel, All the Good Things, was published by Viking in 2017 and won a Betty Trask Award. Their short story collection, How the Light Gets In (Influx, 2018) was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Edgehill Short Story Award, and their second collection, The Moon is Trending, was published by Salt in 2024. Their creative nonfiction has appeared in The London Magazine and Tolka. They are a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield.
D. HARLAN WILSON is an American novelist, editor, literary critic, playwright, and college professor. He is the author of over thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, and hundreds of his stories, essays, and plays have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies throughout the world in over ten languages. Wilson also serves as editor-in-chief for Anti-Oedipus Press and reviews editor for Extrapolation.
DAVID RODEN is a writer of concept horror/erotica and theory fiction, a philosopher and musician. His monograph Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge, 2014) explores the ramifications of Speculative Posthumanism: the thesis that there could be agents originating in human social-technical systems that become posthuman as a result of some technological alteration of their powers. His concept horror and theory/fiction output includes, Snuff Memories (Schism[2], 2021) and Xenoerotics (Schism[2], 2023). His bandcamp is https://enemyindustry.bandcamp.com/.
DAVID VICHNAR teaches at Charles University Prague. He is also active as an editor, publisher and translator. His translations from/into English include important works of the French, German and Anglophone avantgardes. He directs Prague Microfestival and manages Litteraria Pragensia Books and Equus Press. His articles on contemporary experimental writers as well as translations of contemporary poetry and fiction—Czech, German, French and Anglophone—have appeared in numerous journals and magazines.
ERIC BLIX is the author of The Prodigious Earth (Erratum, 2022) and the story collection, Physically Alarming Men (Stephen F. Austin, 2017). His novel, Melanie Index, is forthcoming from Erratum in 2026. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including 3:AM, Best Small Fictions, Caketrain, The Collagist, Western Humanities Review, and others. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he runs the online journal, The New Monuments.
EUGEN BACON is an African Australian author. She’s a Solstice, British Fantasy, Locus and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick and Ignyte Awards, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was also announced in the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.
GARY J. SHIPLEY is the author of numerous books, including Stab Frenzy, So Beautiful and Elastic, Terminal Park (Apocalypse Party), The House Inside the House of Gregor Schneider (Cloak), Bright Stupid Confetti (11:11 Press), 30 Fake Beheadings (Spork), Warewolff! (Erratum), and You With Your Memory Are Dead (Inside the Castle). His monograph on Baudrillard, Stratagem of the Corpse, is available from Anthem Press and Cambridge Core. More information can be found at Thek Prosthetics.
GERMÁN SIERRA is a writer, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, and a member of the Humanities Research Institute (iHUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Artifact (Inside the Castle, 2018), Fabulae (Oneiros Books, 2021), Interstitial Artelligence (in collaboration with Emanuel Magno; Centre for Experimental Ontology Press, 2022), and Zipf Maneuvers (in collaboration with Andrew C. Wenaus) are among his more recent books.
GRANT MAIERHOFER is the author of Traumnovelle, Maintenance Art, Ebb, Gag and others. He is the founding editor of Index Press, and a professor at Washington State University.
JAMES REICH is the author of seven novels, most recently the psy-fi work Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). Currently working on his PhD in Psychology with a focus on UFO abduction fantasies, he is also the author of the psychoanalytic monograph Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers (Punctum Books, 2024). Born in England, he has been a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2009. www.jamesreichbooks.com
JOHN TREFRY is an architect in Lawrence, Kansas. He is the founder and editor of the small press, Inside the Castle. He has written four books, including, most recently, MASSIVE (2024).
LOUIS ARMAND’s critical works include Feasts of Unrule (2024), Entropology (2023), Videology (2015), The Organ-Grinder’s Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013), Event States (2007), Techne (1997) & Incendiary Devices (1993), poetry collections including Infantilisms (2024), Vitus (2022), and Descartes’ Dog (2021), & novels including Anizar (2024), Glitchhead (2022), Vampyr (2021), The Garden (2020), Glasshouse (2018), The Combinations (2016) & Clair Obscur (2011). He co-directs the Prague Microfestival & is the director of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. www.louis-armand.com
MATTHEW CHEESEMAN works across fiction and non-fiction, often collaborating with artists to create books and pamphlets. At the University of Derby he is Professor of Writing and Folklore. He runs a small press, Spirit Duplicator, is a Council member of The Folklore Society and a trustee of Bloc Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Sheffield. @sduplicator; @eine.
MAUREEN ALSOP is an award-winning poet and, most recently, author of the novel Today Yesterday After My Death (Erratum, 2024), a finalist for the 2025 Big Other Book Award. Her seven books of poetry include a collection of visual poetry titled Tender to Empress and Apparition Wren, which was translated into Spanish by Mario Domínguez Parra. Her writings have appeared in numerous journals including South Dakota Review, ctrl + v, The Lincoln Review,] AGNI, among others.
MICHAEL MC ALORAN Is Belfast born, (1976). His work has appeared internationally in various zines, magazines & anthologies. He is the author of over 50 titles of poetry, prose poetry, aphorisms & prose. Further details can be found at Echo Chamber.
MICHAEL TEMPLETON is an independent scholar. He is the author of The Chief of Birds: A Memoir published with Erratum Press, Impossible to Believe from Iff Books, and The Ohiomachine forthcoming with Dead Letter Office/Punctum Books. He has published articles and essays on contemporary culture and numerous works of creative non-fiction as well as experimental works and poetry. He lives in the middle of nowhere in Ohio with his wife who is an artist.
MIKE CORRAO is the author of numerous works including the novels, Gut Text (11:11 Press) and Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press); the poetry collections, The Persimmon is an Event (Broken Sleep Books) and Under Reef (Onomatopee Projects); the plays Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Cephalonegativity (Apocalypse Party); and the essay collection, Surface Studies (Action Books). His work blends writing and book design to explore themes of autonomy, climate anxiety, and anti-capitalism.
RAMIRO SANCHIZ (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1978) is a writer, essayist, and translator. To date, he has published 21 novels, including Los acontecimientos (2025), La historia de la ciencia ficción uruguaya (2025, 2013), Krautrock (2024), and Un pianista de provincias (2022), as well as the essays Matrix Acelerada (2022) and David Bowie: posthumanismo sónico (2020). His short stories and essays have appeared in books such as Cabezas en la ventana: antología de terror latinoamericano (2024), La existencia está en otra parte (2024), Herederos de dos culturas (2023), Latinoamericaeditada (2022), and El tercer mundo después del sol (2021), among others.
SPYRIDON ST. KOGKAS is an independent researcher in the areas of philosophy, arts, theology and history, writing poetry, essays and experimental transcriptions. He is an independent consultant for European Cultural Heritage and Education, is co-founder and director of the non-profit organization Imagine Heritage, and co-founder of the Pan-European consortium Heritage Future. He is also representative in Greece of the International Art Non-profit organization European Cultural Center based in Venice, Italy. Spyridon is Editor-in-chief and founder of the international digital space Thrausma, a science, art and philosophy project with an emphasis on the relationship of humanism and post-humanism. He lives in Athens, Greece.
STEVE HANSON grew up in a post-industrial small town, shifting between art school dropout, graphic art jobs and teaching contextual studies. He then moved to London and completed a PhD at Goldsmiths on small towns and published a parallel book with Zero (2014) Small Towns, Austere Times. Almost immediately afterwards he was knocked out for the best part of a year by a house fire caused by a bad fuse box in a dodgy rental. He began to work with experimental texts. He created A Shaken Bible (Boiler House Press, a new edition is forthcoming from Erratum) and Proceedings (Knives, Forks and Spoons, written during the pandemic). More recently, Erratum collected two volumes of an experimental campus novel called Last Days of Pompeii. Hanson does not call himself a novelist, or poet, or a creative-critical, but is trying to move forward synthesising all of his experimental work. A great mass of this remains unpublished although some things appear on Amazon, which Hanson uses as a personal photocopier to create mark-up drafts and file copies with ISBNs. It is time to push this synthesis forward, allowing all the historical weight above us to come down and roll it out. Hanson hopes this consortium will facilitate and inform this.
STUART KENDALL is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of philosophy, poetics, media, and design. He is best known as the author of a biography of Georges Bataille and as the editor and translator of several volumes of Bataille’s writings, including Inner Experience, Guilty, On Nietzsche, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge, and The Cradle of Humanity. His core interests include problems in politics, religion, and ecological consciousness.
