Eden Szymura is a writer and artist from rural Oxfordshire interested in notions of ‘becoming’. Her work sits broadly in experimental prose and interrogates the relationship between women, desire and bodily sensation.
Cutting her teeth on Angela Carter’s explosive subversions of sexuality, Eden has since moved away from researching patriarchal discourse on women’s bodies, and towards the internal, socialised, voices and complex physical sensations that sit underneath. She asks how women and people of marginalised genders speak within and outside.
In 2019 she co-founded arts collective, MEDUSA, with writer Emily Walters to develop a space to share their thoughts on art and connection. The pair have built a tight-knit community for the exchange of ideas, embodying Hélène Cixous’ demand that ‘women must write themselves into existence’.
Eden holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Durham University and an MA in Creative Writing (New Prose Narratives) at Royal Holloway. She has spent the past four years working in communications and the arts in London.
Core research interests include: feminist conceptions of writing the self, the articulation of somatic experiences, using the archive and internet culture.
You can keep abreast of her plans on her newsletter, Yearning.
2023 – 2024: MA, Creative Writing – Royal Holloway, University of London
Main Project: may is gonna be a sexy month: an autotheoretical exploration on the ethics of dating apps
Dissertation: ‘How can you live if you do not to some extent see life as a game?:’ Playfulness in Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries
2019: Co-Founder, MEDUSA, an ongoing collaborative writing project
2017 – 2020: BA, English Literature – Durham University.
Dissertation: Subversions of Sexuality in the Early Novels of Angela Carter
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