Christiana Spens
@christianaspens.bsky.social
Author of The Colony (2026), The Fear (2023) & other books.
Writer & illustrator for LitHub, Prospect, NYRB, New Statesman & elsewhere.
Writer & illustrator for LitHub, Prospect, NYRB, New Statesman & elsewhere.
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Delighted to reveal the cover for a new acquisition – The Colony by @christianaspens.bsky.social – forthcoming 2026.
May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Delighted to reveal the cover for a new acquisition – The Colony by @christianaspens.bsky.social – forthcoming 2026.
Happy to share that my novel THE COLONY will be published next Spring! A book about cults, consuming love, and the desire to surrender.
Delighted to reveal the cover for a new acquisition – The Colony by @christianaspens.bsky.social – forthcoming 2026.
May 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy to share that my novel THE COLONY will be published next Spring! A book about cults, consuming love, and the desire to surrender.
I wrote about the Gregg Bordowitz exhibition at Camden Art Centre for Studio
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There: a Feeling | Gregg Bordowitz
In his first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, American artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz shares stories, prints and films reflecting on connection, survival and contagion
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February 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I wrote about the Gregg Bordowitz exhibition at Camden Art Centre for Studio
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Reposted by Christiana Spens
Announcing the top 10 most read posts on The London Magazine website this year... 🧵
At number 10, we have 'Giving Up' by @christianaspens.bsky.social: an essay on lent, Hastings and finally saying 'no'.
Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-giving...
At number 10, we have 'Giving Up' by @christianaspens.bsky.social: an essay on lent, Hastings and finally saying 'no'.
Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-giving...
Essay | Giving Up by Christiana Spens - The London Magazine
'All at once, it felt nihilistic and misguided. I had been on this extended fast, but it was devoted to absent men and not any real god. As such, there had been no revelation or resolution, no peace.'...
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December 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Announcing the top 10 most read posts on The London Magazine website this year... 🧵
At number 10, we have 'Giving Up' by @christianaspens.bsky.social: an essay on lent, Hastings and finally saying 'no'.
Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-giving...
At number 10, we have 'Giving Up' by @christianaspens.bsky.social: an essay on lent, Hastings and finally saying 'no'.
Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-giving...
Reposted by Christiana Spens
I wrote about my trip to Helsinki, the Moomins, my father (& sort of the Cold War) for LitHub 🩵
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In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jannson’s Characters
It is the end of October when I arrive in Helsinki with my nine-year-old son, with whom I first read the Moomin stories when he was three years old, and we were living in Scotland together during a…
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November 20, 2024 at 10:48 AM
I wrote about my trip to Helsinki, the Moomins, my father (& sort of the Cold War) for LitHub 🩵
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I’ll be talking with Asad Qureshi tomorrow at Folkestone Book Festival about his miraculous survival after being kidnapped and held captive by the Taliban for 165 Days; join us if you can!
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Asad Qureshi and Christiana Spens: Surviving the Taliban - Creative Folkestone
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November 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I’ll be talking with Asad Qureshi tomorrow at Folkestone Book Festival about his miraculous survival after being kidnapped and held captive by the Taliban for 165 Days; join us if you can!
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/asa...
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/asa...
I wrote about my trip to Helsinki, the Moomins, my father (& sort of the Cold War) for LitHub 🩵
lithub.com/in-search-of...
lithub.com/in-search-of...
In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jannson’s Characters
It is the end of October when I arrive in Helsinki with my nine-year-old son, with whom I first read the Moomin stories when he was three years old, and we were living in Scotland together during a…
lithub.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:48 AM
I wrote about my trip to Helsinki, the Moomins, my father (& sort of the Cold War) for LitHub 🩵
lithub.com/in-search-of...
lithub.com/in-search-of...