published – Jade Angeles Fitton

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’).”

D P — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:59:56 +0000

I started writing this little boujie folk-horror a couple of years ago and am delighted to see it published in The London Magazine now. Click here to read Lizette by the Sea.

Piece for the Financial Times

D P — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:00:31 +0000

For the ⁦‪Financial Times I wrote about one of my favourite paintings and how it relates to one of my favourite activities, housesitting other people’s beautiful homes. To read about the joys of house sitting, and of leaving again, click here.

For The Fence: How My Dad Poisoned Himself Making Spitting Image Puppets

jadeangelesfitton — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:33:08 +0000

For this piece for The Fence I asked my dad to cast his mind back 40-odd years to one of the many weird and chaotic occurrences of his special effects career that spanned the 1970s-2010s and was extremely (and almost exclusively) weird and chaotic. This is how he poisoned himself while making the prototypes for the original Spitting Image… CLICK HERE.

Illustration by Viz cartoonist Davie Jones.

Feature For The Fence

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:49:41 +0000

You may, or may not, remember the videos I used to share of myself interviewing glittering celebrities. For The Fence, I wrote about what happened behind the scenes during my years reporting access all areas at London Fashion Week. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Click here to read.

Article For The Guardian

jadeangelesfitton — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:50:54 +0000

For The Guardian, I wrote about how the rural housing crisis has been exacerbated by the pandemic. This stretches all the way from Devon and Cornwall to the Hebrides. It’s so much worse than I thought it was, and I knew it was bad. Second homes have become a major problem—if you have a second home in an area where there’s a housing crisis you should be renting it (affordably) to the people who are currently being made homeless. Let’s hope something changes, fast. To read it, click here.

Overheard In Art Galleries Piece For The Fence

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:48:23 +0000

I went lurking around London’s galleries writing down all the pretentious and ridiculous things I overheard there. Available in print only for The Fence.

You can subscribe to this brilliant magazine of undercover investigations, fiction and satire here. Think Private Eye but with short stories.

Feature For Literary Review

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:53:24 +0000

Seen a lot of manifestos being published recently? Manifestos are in the zeitgeist again, but his time it’s different. For Literary Review I wrote about what commercialisation means for manifestos and their movements. How radical can something mass market be? Read online here.

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Suze Drives Fast

jadeangelesfitton — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:02:32 +0000

Very happy to make a return to short stories with a short published by the great people at The Common Breath. ‘Suze Drives Fast’ is about two women existing in the aftershock. About what life is like after you might think it’s all over. Read it here: http://thecommonbreath.com/blogfiction.html

New Article For Vogue

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:31:03 +0000

I wrote for British Vogue about why I wore my mother’s wedding dress after my parents divorced. About sentiment, superstition, heirlooms and searching for a sense of permanence this year. Wishing you all a happier new one. Read Here.