From Worms 5, read an interview with the Berlin based writer Estelle Hoy on her novella Pisti 80 Rue De Belleville by Caitlin McLoughlin in full.

Eleanor Tennyson writes the story of a disenchanted couple looking to protest war. In a dystopic reality, not far from the here and now, WAR and its evils have led to a global celibacy trend amongst the human population. Will and Une are a young couple grappling with this new world order through a process of betrayal, resentment and anxiety.

Online editor Arcadia Molinas takes us through Arthur Boyd's newest fashion collection 'Barflies', that debuted at Reference Point in February, and the café culture that inspired it. Can barflies, drifters, transcend their fate by coming together?

Featuring Hannah Regel, Rosanna McLaughlin, T. Fleischmann and Octavia Bright.

In the tradition of Chris Kraus, Jennifer Jasmine White writes a love letter to Top Girls playwright Caryl Churchill.

Paul B. Preciado, Eliot Duncan, Sophia Giovannitti, Nuar Alsadir.

Read an extract of Amelia Abraham’s interview with Melissa Broder, as seen in Worms 8 & read Arcadia Molinas’ experience reading Broder’s new book Death Valley.

This is a story about Gelsomina, a senior French Bulldog on the brink of death who has just contracted parasitic worms. As she prods the nature of her existence, Gelsomina reflects on love, sex, death, and the monotony of her domesticated lifetime.

Nadia Bou Ali on Parapraxis, Bellies by Nicola Dinan, new Brontez Purnell, the Zone of Interest and much more…

Delia Rainey reviews Samantha Sewell’s debut collection of short fiction ‘THERE IS NO ESCAPE.’

This eerie anti-fantasy about visiting Guy Debord at his chateaux in France, and being prey to his whims and reveries by Amy Grandvoinet comes as a response to Claire Carroll's piece in PROTOTYPE 5 . It includes leaf-sweeping, chess-playing, fountain philosophy, and a hatred of madeleines.

Jeanette Winterson, Eve Babitz, Julia Fox & Hannah Levene

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou writes about Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega, translated by Saskia Vogel, and the tradition of female objectification, burial and repression in gothic fiction and beyond.

Zora Neale Hurston, Lamya H., Priscilla, Past Lives and much more…

The Worms team share their favourite reads of 2023.

Delia Rainey gives us her top 15 reads of 2023.

After a seven year gap due to personal difficulties and career highs and lows, Melissa Lee-Houghton returns from the edge of obscurity and personal precarity with a two-book collection Exposure/Ideal Palace published by Pariah Press.

Cookie Mueller & Jacqueline Rose