One of my favourite publications, The Fence, have a new, beautiful book out called The Pub, published by Penguin/Ebury Press: featuring the best, and the blurst, of British pubs. I was delighted to be asked to contribute, and wrote about one of my favourite pubs down in Devon, that I’ve been going to my whole life (mentioned in Hermit – it was the pub with all the mummers).
Since I travelled around Cuba back in 2022, I’d wanted the freedom to write a travelogue about that experience, as I could not find an honest representation of the reality of travelling in Cuba in any of the national publications – and none would offer the word count required to depict the country’s complexities. I was very lucky to be offered that by the brilliant and beautiful Lunate Journal. The piece was published in their final edition earlier this year, and it is one of my favourite pieces that I’ve written to date. It’s no longer available to buy (I’m late to post, as ever). But if you’d like a copy, please get in touch, I can ask the editors if they have any copies still available.
Cuba,
I was delighted to write about the circuit I walk every night and what it means to me for Boundless Magazine. Click here to read.
In Vashti Bunyan’s Wayward I came across the concept of ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ dogs, which I pursued to the back teeth of the internet (where people see their dead dogs in cloud formations) because I’ve now had two. I hopefully did them proud in this piece for The Times. Read here.
In February 2024 I was shortlisted for The Moth Poetry Prize 2023 judge by Hannah Sullivan with my poem ‘And Other Mirages’. The Irish Times wrote:
Hannah Sullivan, TS Eliot Prize winner and associate professor of English at New College, Oxford, has chosen her shortlist for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize: Pencilling the Dates by Catherine Ann Cullen, And Other Mirages by Jade Angeles Fitton, Things I’m Against by Lance Larsen and Extinction Picnic by Craig van Rooyen.
For The Spectator I wrote about my obsession with online auctions and how online auction websites have resulted in boom times for provincial auction houses. Read here.
For The Guardian I wrote about an ostensibly small moment during which I made a decision that changed everything for me. It was like being rewired. Read here.
For Graydon Carter’s Air Mail I went to Saint Paul de Vence in the South of France and discovered the most incredible story of the perfume house’s 21st century revival (featuring a break out of a retirement home!). Read here. 
For The Fence I wrote about a what I thought was going to be a wildlife cruise while on honeymoon in Cuba. I had been reading Moby Dick the night before and all was not what I had expected. Read here.
For The Spectator I wrote about finding my family roots in a tiny mountain village in Asturias, Spain, where my great-grandmother, Angeles Martinez, lived and died. And why my grandfather chose to keep his Spanish roots a secret for most of his life. Read here.
