James Varney
James is a Manchester based writer, theatre maker and facilitator. He designs and delivers his own independent projects and delivers commissioned work for organisations across the UK.
Recent work has seen James collaborating with Javaad Alipoor Theatre Company, Proud & Loud Arts, Derby Theatre, HOME and the BFI.
James is Lead Artist of We Live Here, an organisation delivering creative projects with specific communities about our right to the city and our relationship to urban space.
His short story ‘Made for Two’ is published in the Squad’s We Write the North anthology. Among others, James has been published in Ambit, The Stage, Exeunt, Lune, & Le Monde. He is currently working on a novel, Animals Without Backbones, in which a city’s waterways fill with living, hungry flesh.
In 2024, James joined the board of the Writing Squad.
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