Jade Angeles Fitton

Article in World of Interiors

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:59:28 +0000

There has been woefully little time for writing articles the past year or so and I’m utterly delighted to be stepping back into the fray through the hallowed halls of world of interiors ‘Object Lesson’. We’re anticipating my season of all things meteoric with what are described as ‘the shooting stars’ of Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst, her irises.

This is a meditation one species in particular, the Three Oaks iris, a bright star of a plant, a total trip, and nigh-on impossible to get one’s hands on in the U.K. If you’re eager to see them, many of the irises return for a second bloom in September, which just happens to be when my next book, When The Sky Falls: A Human History of Shooting Stars, is published…

You can buy a copy of August’s World of Interiors here.

Highly Commended In The National Poetry Competition

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:46:08 +0000

This year my poem SAMO was highly commended in the National Poetry Competition judged by Susannah Dickey, Denise Saul and Ian Duhig. Photos below from the prize-giving event at the Artworkers Guild – it was a great honour and felt extraordinary to be surrounded by so many old, dead men. You can read the poem on The Poetry Society website here.

Short Story For Radio4

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:13:18 +0000

Continuing with what appears to be a running theme of mine — writing about women on the fringes of society — I was commissioned to write a story for Radio 4’s Short Works series: set in Devon, it’s about a deer stalker tasked with a suspected unlicensed wild boar release on Dartmoor. I wanted to write something from the perspective of the people whose responsibility it often is to deal with these unlicensed releases. Regardless of whether or not they like that responsibility’s consequence in these instances, or whether they ultimately hope for a future in which these creatures exist in the wild, the buck often falls with them. The story is about rural ideologies, the many fors and againsts, and looking for balance in an environment that is intrinsically off-kilter.

Listen on BBC Sounds here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m1nj

Contritbuting to ‘The Pub’

jadeangelesfitton — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:34:59 +0000

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).

The pub is available here.

Cuba Travelogue for Lunate Journal

jadeangelesfitton — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:33:42 +0000

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,

The Loop – For Boundless Magazine

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:13:01 +0000

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.

The Times – Soul Dogs

jadeangelesfitton — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:58:06 +0000

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.

The Moth Poetry Prize Shortlist

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:52:08 +0000

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.

Angeles Fitton’s memoir Hermit was published by Penguin Random House last year. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Vogue, Times Literary Supplement and The Financial Times. She lives in rural Devon.

Her poem gives us “a quirky, slight, sideways look at a recent afternoon” which “begins and ends during an exercise class in a swimming pool, the present dilated between two songs from the golden age of pop”, says Sullivan. “Fastening its attention to small, irregular things, like the bobbing wildflower swimming caps, the poem becomes an exercise in evacuating the ego (‘not me, he whispers, not I’).”

The Spectator – Provincial Auction House Boom

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:41:41 +0000

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.

The Guardian – A Moment That Changed Me

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:37:24 +0000

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.