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Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican-American writer, editor and artist living in London. Her work explores the concept of language and memory as image-objects stored within the mind. She aims to establish these concrete forms through text to cut and collage them and form vignettes of time. By recording what is so often forgotten, she uncovers the entanglement between everyone and everything. 
 
She is currently a part of The Gobjaw Poetry Collective, writer for Hard of Hearing Magazine and is the assistant editor for Montez Press. She also runs her own open mic/visual showcase and crit-circle, Exteriors, out of Set Social Peckham. 

To keep up to date with her work, performances and workshops visit her Instagram @elida.silvey.


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POETRY & PROSE (2017-2024) 



‘Canela Nacar #666-240’
(Wasafiri, Latinx Issue), UPCOMING

‘A Desert Poem In Ternary Form’ (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), December 2024

‘Eight-Course’(Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), December 2024

‘The City Lives Under My Skin’(Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), October 2024

‘My Home is a Thick Black Redaction Block’ (In Between Knots), October 2024

‘To All My Punk Babes’ (Dark Entries, Vol. 3), October 2024

‘American Martyr’ (Research Files No. 1, The Scar as Archive), October 2024

‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), October 2024

November 2022, on Graham Road’ (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), September 2024

‘Imagined Self’ (Same Faces Collective, Solar Flare Issue), July 2024

‘Consuming Space’ (The Hysterical Gearswitch, Fieldnotes Evening School) February 2024

‘The Visitor’ re-published short story (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), Jan 2024



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NON-FICTION (2023-2024)


‘And We, Who Have Always Thought’ interview with Estelle Hoy (WORMS No. 9 The Psychoanalysis Issue), December 2024 

‘The Queen Droplet y Los Nopaleros’ personal essay (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), November 2024

‘The Mind is a Camera, The Memory a Photograph, The Emotion an Artistic Oeuvre’ Play review and personal essay (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), November 2024

‘Sila Lua Redefines Baroque in New EP Hacer Teatro’ Music Interview (Knuckle Magazine), November 2024

‘My Body Is Your Body Is The Only Livable Place’ Exhibition Text for (Beyond our Bodies Our Beings Extend shown at Pilot in Riga, Latvia), October 2024

‘The Gargantuan Orange and Its Lessons’ personal essay (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), October 2024

‘Snatch The Broken Moment’ personal essay (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), September 2024

‘The Worms in My Belly are Talking Again’ personal essay (Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack), September 2024

‘Being Dead’s ‘EELS’ Pulls Up and Takes You 6ft Under’ Album review (Hard of Hearing), September 2024

‘Skydaddy brings the orchestra along for the ride in newest EP ‘Pilot.’’ Ep review (Hard of Hearing), June 2024

‘Bill Ryder-Jones looks back to leap forward on new album ‘Iechyd Da.’’ Album review (Hard of Hearing), January 2024




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WORKSHOPS(2022-2024) 


‘Exteriors Crit Circles’ @ Set Social Peckham, every 2nd Wednesday of the month from September 2024 - ongoing

‘Between Borders: Writing Workshop’ @ Lot Projects, May 2024

‘Zine-Making Workshop with Elida Silvey’ @ Pushkin House, May 2024

‘Word Club X Gobjaw’ @ Staffordshire St, March 2024

‘Spoken Word Workshop’ for Aymo Live @ Online, December 2023

‘Poetry Workshop’ with Gobjaw @ The Feminist Library, November 2023

‘Foraging For Words’ Poetry and Foraging Workshop @ Leigh-on-Sea, September 2023

‘After Hours’ Poetry Cut-up Workshop @ Here After Vintage, May 2022




 
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PR/INTERVIEWS (2021-2024)



‘Worms Reader with Elida Silvey, Kita Ward and CA Conrad’
(Worms Podcast), August 2024

‘Everyone is a Girl Launch Review’ (idontwanttomessthisup), April 2024

‘Tracks Rebait with Jasmine Kahlia’ (Resonance FM), March 2024

‘Writing Is A Vulnerable Act: In Conversation with Elida Silvey’ (Fetch Magazine), November 2023

‘A Moment Bathed In Light That Is Yours Alone with Elida Silvey’ (God’s Asshole Radio), October 2023

‘Elida Silvey’s Compost Heap’ (Worms Mag), September 2023

‘The Writers Experimenting With Form’ (The Literary Platform), July 2021




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Performances (2020-2024) 


‘Vignettes of Service’ for When They Meet @ The Plough, November 2024

‘Latinx Poetry Showcase’ @ Southbank Centre, November 2024

‘Baby Bird’ Poetry Film @ Light Beams Under the Bridge, September 2024

‘Exteriors’ my own event, hosted and performed @ Staffordshire St, August 2024

‘Queer Ecologies’ @ Sutton House, August 2024

‘Moved by Mariachi’ radio show for @ No Bounds Radio (Online), July 2024

Compost Graduation @ WORMS HQ, July 2024

‘Own Justice’ @ St. Art Gallery, June 2024

‘Tonbu London’ @ All is Joy Soho, April 2024

‘Resonance Anthology Launch’ @ The Peckham Pelican, April 2024

‘Venn Diagrams #7’ @ Torriano Meeting House, March 2024

‘Dust and Shapes’ @ Pushkin House, March 2024

‘Stanza’ @ Lot Projects, March 2024

‘Baby Bird’ Poetry Film @ Pushkin House for everyone is a girl, September 2024

Heroica @ La Dona Bar, January 2024

‘The Sky Hasn’t Fallen Yet’ @ Hundred Years Gallery, February 2024

‘Ink & Intimacy’ for Aymo Live @ Online, November 2023

London Spanish Bookfair
@ The Crypt at St. Peters, October 2023

Aymo Live @ Online, October 2023

‘Will Happiness Find Me?’ @  Stegi Radio (online), September 2023

Resonance Poetry @ Matchstick Pie House & The Peckham Pelican, August, September 2023, March 2024

‘Nothings Book Launch’ self-published launch, hosted and performed @ Social Convention, June 2023

Gobjaw Poetry Collective @ Avalon Cafe, Paper Dress Vintage, The George Tavern and The Theatreship — joined June, 2023 attended monthly open mics thereafter and hosted them from September 2023 - September 2024

Jawdance @ Richmix, March 2023

DJ Set for Birdtable Vol. 4  @ Online from Los Angeles, May 2020





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