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.

This is the mobile version, for quick access to links. Other pages on this site were designed for desktop only and may have wonky formatting.

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.

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.