bodypoetic

Hello!

I'm Florence - a writer, new media artist, and occasional critic. This website is a place for me to collect my work together.

Learn to Vanish - a game poem about fitting in or standing out.
How to Make It Home - an Undum game, made for the Welcome to My Home Page web residency.
Now and When I Was Young - a poetry game, featured in Crawlspace.
Declarations @ the Vitrine - the results of a week-long collaboration as part of Declarations, an artistic research project exploring the poetic materiality of CSS.
I Dreamt of Something Lost - a fake desktop game about data, grief, and memory.
Salvage: Ode to My Notes App - an explorable network of scattered notes and unfinished poems.
La Faim Féminine - a poetry game about gender and exploitation.
The Stranding - a Twine game about waiting, connection, and the Earth.

Seeing [With/Like] The Machine: Blink and Hana's Light - a feature for Indiepocalypse.
Untitled - flash fiction, written as part of TELEPHONE..
Notes After a ChattyLARP - reflections on an experimental LARP using ChattyPub, featured in H&D Bulletin 6.
Collected Zines - a bundle of zines, featuring collage, black-out poetry, and more.
After Star Trek: TOS S02E08: The Changeling - a poem about Star Trek, featured in the Red Shirt Review, a zine by Daily Drunk.
Digital Modernism - a glossary entry for the Electronic Literature Directory.
Disasters never end: Night in the Woods and pre-post-lockdown dread - a micro-essay, featured in Sickness, Systems, Solidarity: A Pandemics and Games Essay Jam.
If Asked to Name My Queerness - a prose poem, featured in Pidgeonholes.
Exit Polls and Further Notes on A Separation - poetry, featured in the Weekly Degree.
Weaponself - a poem, featured in Evocations.

Aspects of Literariness in New Media Writing - academic paper by Tijana Parezanović & Milena Stojanović, 2026.
5 Game Poems with Metaphor Through Mechanics - blog post by U Shall Play, 2025.
Weekly Blog: Easter Break Reads (and Genderqueer Recommendations) - blog post by York Literature Society, 2025.
How to Make It Home - review by Arcane Cache, 2025.
Episode 0188 - appearance on Indiepocalypse Radio, 2025.
Now and When I Was Young - interview with Crawlspace (hidden in the source code), 2024.
Winner of the New Media Writing Prize: Florence Walker is blending Literature and Coding - interview with MediaFutures, 2024.
Florence Walker's poetic games explore the body and the ground - interview with Caroline Delbert, 2022.