I am

Cecil
Fenn

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I’m Cecil Fenn–a writer, designer, and digital creative. This website is dedicated to my writing projects, including short stories and traditionally published fiction, alongside my personal practice writing zines, games and cross-media pieces. Originally from New York, I worked in music studios, theatres, and funeral homes before settling my creative practice in London. I’ve studied creative writing at the Pratt Institute and Trinity College Dublin, and attended the Tin House Summer Workshop. My short fiction has been shortlisted for the Aurora Prize.

The themes in my work are often dark, but centered around human connection. Whether literary or speculative, hope or horror, my writing explores anxieties around the body. In my stories, you’ll find the strangeness of embodiment in all its beauty and abjectness: death, illness, sex, physical connection, queerness, and the ways we can find meaning in a world we only experience through our limited senses.

House & Helvete
A horror story set in a record store closed by the influence of a cursed cassette tape. First appeared in The Dread Machine 3.3.
Holy Land
A young embalmer accompanies his photographer roommate to document Holy Land, USA in Waterbury, Connecticut. This short story appears in Scrawl Place & Canthius 12.
A Sacrifice
A minimalist dark fantasy TTRPG about dependence and betrayal.
Thought-Stone
Swallow your grief, eat a heart. A prose-poem in Fantômes Issue 1.
TRVE
A one-page zine about black metal, death, and transmasculinity.
The End + The Instant
An ongoing novel-in-flash. Lark has taken and collected instant photographs for years. Solid memory. He’s not sure he wants to remember anymore. Lark remembers anyway.