We’re SO excited to announce Worms 11: Faith & Worship, available now 🙏
The theme for each issue of Worms tends to emerge steadily as gathering clouds. Often there is a nebulous sense of something that we want to explore, unripe fruits plucked from things we have read and heard and pocketed without much thought for later examination. It’s only when our pockets grow heavy, when ideas amass into something worthy of a second glance, that we start to name them. In the case of this one, our eleventh issue, its theme has its roots in the previous. The Love Issue—released in July 2025—explored love in all its guises: radical, complex, beautiful, violent. But in our study of the heart’s infinite mysteries there lurked an undercurrent of something else. Faith, close to love, was a persistent reoccurrence. Devotion, strength, clarity, refuge – these emerged as dimensions of love that can also be mapped across a search for something beyond the material. Worms 11: Faith & Worship began here.
FEATURING: Lamorna Ash, Clare Carlisle, Fanny Howe, Chris Kraus, Eileen Myles, Kazim Ali, Fiona Alison Duncan, Lauren J. Joseph, Olivia Laing, aja monet, Charlotte Northall, Arpan Roy, Noura Salahaldeen, Sarah Schulman, Michelle Tea.
CONTRIBUTORS: Temperance Aghamohammadi, Alaa Alqaisi, RZ Baschir, Sarah Burgoyne, F. Tibiezas Dager, Giulia De Vita, Helena Geilinger, Misha Honcharenko, Courtney Ann LaFaive, Ozziline Mercedes, Nicko Mroczkowski, Evie Reckendrees, Charlie Stuip, Clár Tillekens, Phoenix Yemi.
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Antonia Adomako, Eve Delaney, Jen Dessinger, Isabel Maccarthy, Brittney Najar, Katarzyna Postaremczak, Honor Weatherall.
ILLUSTRATORS & ARTISTS: Clara Esborraz, Eric Hesselbo, Lily Makoski, Samantha Rosenwald, Ivy Shepherd-Barron, Mary Watt, Shu Hua Xiong.
EDITORS: Caitlin McLoughlin, P. Eldridge, Clem MacLeod, Arcadia Molinas.
Proof Reader: Annalise June Kamegawa.
DESIGN: Caitlin McLoughlin & Clem MacLeod.
RUNWAY JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT
Contributors: Wassila Abboud, Anna Carlsson, Alexander Cigana, Bree Turner, Amelia Zhou.
Editors: Debris Facility, Ena Grozdanic, Victoria Pham.
Runway Supplement Design: SM Studio (Safiye Gray & Molly Cranston).
Cover Credits: Photo of Fanny Howe by Lynn Christoffers, Illustration by Mary Watt.
Publication date: December 2025
Published in the UK by Worms World C.I.C.
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240 × 170 mm | 216 pages
We’re SO excited to announce our return to print with Worms 10: The Love Issue, available now ♥️
This latest issue of Worms invites readers into a bold and tender exploration of love in all its messy, political, and transformative guises.
Set against the backdrop of state-sanctioned transphobia in the UK and US, ongoing genocide in Gaza, and a litany of global injustices that see us staggering under the weight of collective and personal upheaval, this issue reckons with thinking and writing about love in a time of crisis. How do we take seriously the seemingly frivolous demands of love, devotion, beauty—in all their myriad and sometimes painful forms—when basic needs and rights are stripped away.
Featuring voices from at home and overseas including Shon Faye, Torrey Peters, Melissa Febos, Constance DeJong, Sarah Aziza, Precious Okoyomon, Carmen Maria Machado and Constance Debré, as well as contributions from rising stars in experimental literature, we ask: How can we continue to love someone who refuses to change? Is writing about sex still strange – or have we done and seen it all? What do you do if you fall in love with your sperm donor?
From the resilience and fierce creativity of trans writers, the challenges and ethics of telling love stories that are not our own, to the guts and gristle of motherhood, pet love, age-gap relationships and getting off on poetry, Worms 10 is a testament to the power of writing, and of love, as acts of resistance, reclamation and truth.
FEATURING: Shon Faye, Jackie Ess, Precious Okoyomon, Constance Debré, Melissa Febos, Torrey Peters, Carmen Maria Machado, Sarah Aziza, Constance DeJong, Sophie K Rosa
CONTRIBUTORS: Caitlin Hall, Zara Joan Miller, Devki Panchmatia, Lu Rose Cunningham, Gabrielle Sicam, Aimée Ballinger, Mimi Howard, Enya Ettershank, Sufjan Bile, MK McGrath, Amie Corry, Dizzy Zaba, 2ly (Molly Cranston, Safiye Gray, Hanako Emden, Sophie Florian, Johanna Maierski), Jemima Skala, Fariha Róisín, Summer Moraes
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Minu, Dozie Kanu, Jen Dessinger, Karla Monroe, Sophie Williams, Ellen Stewart
ILLUSTRATORS: Rifke Sadleir, Chloe Sheppard, Charlotte Pelissier, Leomi Sadler
EDITORS: Caitlin McLoughlin, P. Eldridge, Clem MacLeod, Arcadia Molinas
DESIGN: Caitlin McLoughlin
Publication date: July 2025
Published in the UK by Worms World C.I.C.
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240 × 170 mm | 184 pages
In this special edition, double-cover issue of Worms, we bring you not one, but two cover stars. The indelible Tyson Yunkaporta and the iconic Anne Waldman adorn both sides of Worms 8 which can also be thought of as ‘The Elements Issue’. It was dreamt up in a dreary and grey August in London, while the rest of the world suffered through the hottest days on record. As we witnessed, and continue to witness, such climate catastrophe, we turned to the literature we love to help us understand, to challenge us, and to offer us some comfort.
The issue is split into four sections—earth, fire, air and water—but its roots and webs push beyond what we typically think of as ‘the natural’: tales from the kitchen from Rebecca May Johnson and Slutty Cheff, reflections on gardening and colonialism, writer's block and clogged pipes, how to blow up pipelines with Andreas Malm, grief and writing, recovery and nature with Octavia Bright, social mobility with Isabel Waidner, the wide range of issues raised by the underrepresentation of First Nations people in literature with Evelyn Araluen and much, much more.
We hope that this issue can be a flame of hope, inspiration, or something that simply sustains in such turbulent times.
Featuring
Tyson Yunkaporta, Isabel Waidner, Jamaica Kincaid, Melissa Broder, Evelyn Araluen, Bruce Pascoe, Octavia Bright, Nora Treatbaby, Nerea Calvillo, Anne Waldman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Léuli Eshrāghi, Madeline Cash, Andreas Malm and Rebecca May Johnson
Contributors
Stella Murphy , Ben Redhead, Phoenix Yemi, Sam Moore, Devils Claws, Pierce Eldridge, Manon Mikolaitis, Caitlin McLoughlin, Isabel MacCarthy, Elodie Saint-Louis , Nettle Grellier, Amelia Abraham, Ryan Pfluger, Rose Higham-Stainton , Emma Crabtree, Ignota, Lydia Luke, Chloe Sheppard, Clem MacLeod, Carolyne Loreé Teston, Emma Cohen, Olive Couri, Raheela Suleman, No Land, Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Sufia Ikbal-Doucet, Rhett Hammerton, Zara Joan Miller, Kate Morgan, Bug Shepherd-Barron, Zoe Freilich, Slutty Cheff, Clemmie Bache, Violet Conroy, Sarah White, Jemima Skala and Stephanie Francis-Shanahan
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Publication date: December 2023
Published in the UK by Worms World C.I.C.
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240 × 170 mm | 180 pages
The ‘Artists who Write and Writers who Art’ Issue. For Worms 7 we’ve looked to our visual counterparts for some soil nutrients. We’ve wormed our way into the psyche of the artist, to bring you the ‘Artists That Write, and Writers That Art’ issue. Many of our subjects in the past have come into writing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, art, performance, podcasting, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired our experimental literary practices so far. Not only those that use words within their visual practice, but those who use images to inform their writing. The reader, the writer, the artist, the activist, the poet and performer; they’re all here and they’re all worms.
In this mega worm (which is fittingly pink, for the first time somehow) you are in for a feast. Clem interview Helen Marten, Martine Syms and Diamond Stingily, Caitlin interviews actual art-writing icon Olivia Laing, Pierce talks to the profound Dr. Joy James, Philippa Snow gives us her thoughts on the act of writing art criticism (spoiler: it’s out her ass), and we have enough Derek Jarman content to keep you going for the rest of the year. We have some hilarious/insightful/weird/wonderful contributions from some of your favourite regulars too; including Jess Cole, Isabelle Bucklow, Sam Moore, Haydée Touitou, Estelle Hoy and many others.
Featuring
DIAMOND STINGILY, HELEN MARTEN, NICOLE RUDICK, NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, MARTINE SYMS, OLIVIA LAING, DR. JOY JAMES, JORDAN WEITZMAN, WU TSANG, DEREK JARMAN, SABINE MIRLESSE, MISHA HONCHARENKO, CHANTAL AKERMAN, JOANNA NOVAK, ANNIE ERNAUX, DAISY SANCHEZ, JENNA SUTELA, ANICKA YI, TUOMAS A. LAITINEN, STEPHANIE COMILANG & SIMON SPEISER, VALERIE SOLANAS
Contributors
HAYDEÉ TOUITOU, L SCULLY & LUCAS RESTIVO, LEE RAE WALSH, JESS COLE, ESTELLE HOY, PHILIPPA SNOW, SAMANTHA ROSENWALD, ISABELLE BUCKLOW, MONA GLASSFIELD, CLEM MACLEOD, SARAH WHITE, CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN, PAVIELLE GARCIA, IONE SAIZAR, CHANTAL JOFFE, SOPHIE DAVIDSON, PIERCE ELDRIDGE, VIOLET CONROY, ELLE PÉREZ, PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA, JACQUELINE ENNIS-COLE, MARY ADETURINMO, STEPH FRANCIS-SHANAHAN, SAM MOORE, BUG SHEPHERD-BARRON, DONNA MARCUS DUKE, SAM HOLTON BRADLEY, KITTY GRADY, FELIX PILGRIM, CICI PENG, HOLLY MILLS, THEA MCLACHLAN, ERICA GOULD, PAULA DUCAY AND INÉS GARCÍA, ELVIRA GARCIA, INÊS GERALDES CARDOSO, JODIE HILL, JEMIMA SKALA, MAURA SAPPILO, DELIA RAINEY
Founder & Editor in Chief: CLEM MACLEOD
Managing Editor: CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN
Art direction and design: CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN
Features Editors: PIERCE ELDRIDGE, ARCADIA MOLINAS
Contributing Editor: VIOLET CONROY
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Publication date: July 2023
Published in the UK by Worms World C.I.C.
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240 × 170 mm | 176 pages
Worms #6 delves into themes that are broad and sprawling. We look at humour, collage, and honesty - finding what’s relatable in the literature we love, and uncovering what it tells us about the present moment. Sheena Patel, our cover star, delves into the internet in all its darkness and hilarity, Elvia Wilk discusses the climate crisis and finding truth in fiction, and Chris Kraus and Ann Rower chat about everything from their influences to what a ‘career’ means as a writer. From Cosey Fanni Tutti to Lola Olufemi to Isabel Waidner, there are many more Worms to be found in these pages.
Featuring: SHEENA PATEL, NADA ALIC, COSEY FANNI TUTTI, ELVIA WILK, ANN ROWER, CHRIS KRAUS, GHISLAINE LEUNG, YELENA MOSKOVICH, LOLA OLUFEMI, SAM MOORE, ISABEL WAIDNER, CECILIA PAVÓN, EAR WORMS X LATE WORKS
Contributors: HAYDÉE TOUITOU, NICOLE DELLA COSTA, ZARA JOAN MILLER, ERIN TAYLOR, JESS COLE, ARCADIA MOLINAS, PHOENIX LOSAVIO, HOPE ROALFE, HANNAH PEZZACK, CHRIS CARTER, CLEM MACLEOD, CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN, ISABEL MACCARTHY, SAMANTHA ROSENWALD, ELVIRA GARCIA, CELESTINE COONEY, BUG SHEPHERD-BARRON, MARY WATT, DELIA RAINEY
Founder & Editor in Chief: CLEM MACLEOD
Managing Editor: CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN
Art direction and design: CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN
Features Editors: PIERCE ELDRIDGE, ARCADIA MOLINAS
Contributing Editor: VIOLET CONROY
Printed by: PAGEMASTERS
Publication date: January 2023
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240 × 170 mm | 128 pages
Worms #5 contemplates The Impure in literature, starting with the New Narrative movement and expanding to look at the joys and complexities of using other peoples stories, ideas surrounding appropriation and taking from the archive. There’s lots of gleaning, lots of stealing and lots of hard truths coming from the human body. Featuring Saidiya Hartman, Dodie Bellamy, Camille Roy, Calla Henkel, Lynne Tillman, Jenny Zhang and many more.
Featuring: CALLA HENKEL, JENNY ZHANG, CAMILLE ROY, DODIE BELLAMY, ESTELLE HOY, SAIDIYA HARTMAN, RHEA DILLON, SAVANNAH KNOOP, TOP STORIES, MADELYNE BECKLES, LAUREN FOURNIER, JOANNA WALSH, LYNNE TILLMAN.
Contributors: ZARA JOAN MILLER, HAYDEE TOUITOU, NICOLE DELLA COSTA, CECILIA PAVON, VALENTINA VON KLENCKE, FEYI ADEGBITE, ALICE PLATTI, VICTORIA CAMPA, ALICE BUTLER, CLEMMIE BACHE, CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN, JACK STUART MILLS, HONOR WEATHERALL, ARCADIA MOLINAS, AIMEE BALLINGER, WES KNOWLER, ELEANOR WANG, KATY DADACZ, OLIVE COURI, RACHEL CATTLE, ISABELLE BUCKLOW, SARAH BODRI, HOPE ROAFL, MAURA SAPPILO, JODIE HILL, JACQUELINE ENNIS COLE, MARY WATT, DELIA RAINEY.
Editor in Chief: CLEM MACLEOD
Assistant Editor: CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN
Features Assistant: ARCADIA MOLINAS
Editorial & Graphic Design: CLEM MACLEOD & CAITLIN MCLOUGHLIN
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Publication date: August 2022
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240 × 170 mm | 140 pages
Worms #4 The Flaneuse reconsiders psychogeography and the Situationists from a non-male perspective, taking flâneuserie and the creative benefits of a good walk as its starting point. This issue features conversations with Eileen Myles, Alison Bechdel, Lauren Elkin, Tilly Lawless, Mckenzie Wark, Therese Estacion and Carmen Winant.
Publication date: December 2021
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240 × 170 mm | 114 pages
Worms #3, The Biomythography Issue delves into the realms of memoir, archetype and personal mythmaking amidst the existential jeopardy and pain of global lockdown. Taking Audre Lorde’s idea of biomythography as a launching point – this being a hybridisation of myth, history and biography – Worms 3 considers the remedial qualities of personal reflection in a time where the inter-personal has never been more imperilled (or imperilling). Featuring Michelle Tea, Moyra Davey, Lynne Tillman, Johanna Hedva, Jenny Hval, Ellen van Neervan, Caroline Calloway, Julie Enszerl and more.
Publication date: April 2021
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270 × 180 mm | 112 pages
Worms #2 Revolting Women looks at women who are literally disgusting, figuratively revolting. With a focus on writers who operate on the fringes of literature, ‘revolt’ in a Worms context ranges vastly. This issue includes features with Maggie Nelson, Tilly Lawless, Sarah Schulman, Amelia Abraham, Juliana Huxtable, Juliet Jacques, Olivia Sudjic and more.
Publication date: June 2020
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270 × 180 mm | 116 pages
Worms #1 The Inaugural Issue brought the female writers exploring identity politics to the topsoil - Chris Kraus, Natasha Stagg, Stephanie LaCava and Fiona Alison Duncan among them.
Publication date: May 2019
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270 × 180 mm | 94 pages