Welcome to our six story commissions…
“Writing that Sings and exObjects are beautiful, layered projects.
Both compelling and deeply affecting.”
@irenosenokojie
(short story writer and novelist, MBE and winner of the Caine Prize)
Click on the links below to read the stories
Jester
portrait of a stage performer and poet in Lancashire, England
Ottam Thullal
Malayalam poem written by a young man just arrived in London from Kerala
Keepers Cottage
atmospheric story that takes you to the depths of a southern English wood
Om, Pom, Pom
audio play set in the Northwest seaside town of Blackpool in Lancashire
Music, Mum & Me
uplifting rediscovery of a love of music in Burnley, Lancashire, that changes a daughter’s perceptions
Listen
futuristic tale of climate change through an encounter between two women who are strangers
Commissioned by Artificial Silk for Leek Loves Books 2025
Sauma Afreen is a professional alt.txt editor who created alternative text for the images in the six Writing that Sings commissions.
In 2023 Sauma wrote a story about climate change for the Sadabahar (evergreen) project that became a longer story about fireflies and light pollution in the exObjects book published in India in December 2024.
