Christiana Spens

Thank you, that is very kind! I hope you’ve been well too.

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.

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

I wrote about the Gregg Bordowitz exhibition at Camden Art Centre for Studio

www.studiointernational.com/index.php/th...

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.'...

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...

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…

I wrote about my trip to Helsinki, the Moomins, my father (& sort of the Cold War) for LitHub 🩵

lithub.com/in-search-of...

Asad Qureshi and Christiana Spens: Surviving the Taliban - Creative Folkestone

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...

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…

I wrote about my trip to Helsinki, the Moomins, my father (& sort of the Cold War) for LitHub 🩵

lithub.com/in-search-of...