Luna Carmoon is a self-taught writer and director from South East London.  An original, provocative voice, her writing is subversive, distinctly dissecting the absurd with the mundane rooted in womanhood, working-class culture, and the mythology of memory. 

Luna’s debut feature film, Hoard was met with critical acclaim, world premiering at Venice in 2023 and winning several Critics’ Week prizes, including the audience award. Luna has recently been awarded the BFI and Chanel Filmmaker Award 2025. 

Sophie Lewis is a London-born translator and editor. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise. Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She won the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for non-fiction translation with Nastassja Martin’s anthropology memoir In the Eye of the Wild.

Ash Sarkar is a writer, journalist, lecturer and political commentator, and a contributing editor at Novara Media. She’s written for The Guardian, The Independent and HuffPost, and you might’ve seen her on British TV and radio shows like Question Time and Good Morning Britain.

Arcadia Molinas is a writer, editor and performer. She is the online editor of Worms Magazine.Phoenix Yemi is a Nigerian-British poet, founder of Black Geographies, and the voice behind our A Worm Moon column.Summer Moraes aka Mother Of The Insane is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily through writing and performance. She is also the host of the worms podcast.

Stephanie LaCava is a New York–based writer whose work navigates desire, identity, and cultural myth. Her latest novel, Nymph was published in October, 2025.
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Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary writer and artist.
Her book Who Is Wellness For? examines the politics of self-care and the wellness industry.

Emily LaBarge is a Canadian-born writer and critic based in London, currently teaching at Royal College of Art. She writes essays and art criticism that appear in major publications including Artforum, The Paris Review, The London Review of Books, and Granta. Her debut book, Dog Days is out now.

Hi Wormies,

Unfortunately, we’ve had a technical hiccup this week (our brand new episode got corrupted 😅) But!!! We’re excited to share something special instead: a previously unpublished live event with CAConrad at Champ Lacombe.

Enjoy! xx

Chris Kraus is an American writer, filmmaker and art critic whose work often mixes memoir, fiction and cultural criticism.

Her latest novel, The Four Spent the Day Together (2025), continues her signature blend of autofiction and social commentary by weaving together the story of a murder in Minnesota, the ambitions of a working-class family, and the fall-out of a crumbling marriage.

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, essayist, and cultural critic known for her sharp, inventive prose and genre-defying work. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including American Genius, A Comedy and Men and Apparitions. Her latest book, Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories, published in 2025, showcases four decades of her short fiction.

We also mention The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim and Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr.