Writing by Mel Reeve

A place to keep up with my writing and other projects

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Interview with Scene Magazine about the Bi History project

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The LGBTQ+ heritage trail of Glasgow I helped create with Glasgow Women’s Library as featured in The Guardian

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Winner of the Glasgow Women's Library Bold Types short story competition

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Chosen as one of YWCA's 30 Under 30 2020

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For Podcart - A Love Letter to Live Music

The moment I keep returning to is watching Phoebe Bridgers at St Luke’s in Glasgow.

She holds a note in the chorus of ‘Motion Sickness’, her voice strong and textured with her eyes closed and her brow furrowed in concentration. The crowd watches, and together we seem to all hold our breath for the length of that note. It made everything else disappear...

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You can now read my contribution to the Her Century online!

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I wrote about why I feel connnected to Artimesia Gentileschi and what her art means today for Tabloid Art History vol 2

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“ We look at Gentileschi’s paintings to try and understand what she thought and while there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, what do we lose when we look at those painted eyes and try to see hers looking back at us? It’s hard not to look at her work and want to believe that she was leaving secrets in it for us, but if we strip away our constructions and remember that she was a living person, we find that the eyes looking out from that self-portrait are perhaps our own – that we are using Gentileschi’s work as a way to hold our own world up to the light”

I wrote about the enduring appeal of Artemisia Gentileschi and how we treat her as an artist, woman, and survivor for The Skinny

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I wrote about Petal and Soccer Mommy for Issue 2 of Goldflakepaint

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I wrote about the new Mitski album and what we expect from artists in terms of truth and performance for the Issue 1 of GoldFlakePaint 

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Facebook event

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I wrote about running the @bihistory instagram for Autostraddle

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Reading at the Edinburgh Book Fringe event for Monstrous Regiment’s The Bible anthology

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You can read my short story ‘Chromatography’ in 404 Ink’s latest edition of their lit mag

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A few pics from the successful launch event for the first edition of Monstrous Regiment’s new lit mag

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You can read my short story ‘In Colour’ in Monstrous Regiment’s new lit mag

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Persephone Was Late

Persephone Was Late is a pamphlet of original poetry and prose b y Mel Reeve. It considers themes of power, growth, and identity against the backdrop of the natural world.