Selections from my publications.

Fiction:

• 2023: Awarded in 4 categories at the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards (for Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures), 2nd Place – ‘Collection of Short Stories’; Honourable mention – ‘Animals/Pets’, ‘Best Illustrations’ ‘New Author, Fiction’.
• 2023. Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures, Pegasus Publishing: Vanguard Press.
• 05/23. ‘Creativity helped me with mental illness’, Feature in Woman & Home. 
• 04/23 ‘I am the wind’ highly commended in Writers’ forum.
• 03/23. Speakers Collective Meaningful Conversation (about Squawk) with Michael Rosen and Professor Anthony David: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZfjZAfbEM
• 02/23. ‘I am a plastic bag’ in Roi Fainéant Press, https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/i-am-a-plastic-bag-by-lorna-collins.
• 01/23: ‘Discover February Highlights’ preview of Squawk, in The Bookseller.
  
  Mad philosophy::
  
• 2025. ‘Creative Expression: A Creative Transformation’, colour double page spread feature, Headway News.
• 2025. ‘My mad visions’ in International Mad Studies Journal, 3(SI 1), e1–18. https://doi.org/10.58544/imsj.v3iSI 1.9495
• 2024. ‘Mad Art Makes Sense’ in Lewis, B. The Mad Studies Reader, New York: Routledge. 
• 2023. Review of Alastair Morgan, Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness in The Polyphony. 
  
  With Dr. Roxana Baiasu:
• 2025. ‘Psychotic/Mad Sense toolkit: A Creative, Transformative Philosophy for Personalised Mental Health Care’ in The Springer Handbook of Phenomenology and Personalization in Mental Health Care, co-edited by Guilherme Messas et al., New York: Springer.
• 2025. ‘Transformative paradoxes of sense-making in madness’ in Iride: Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate.
• 2025. ‘Psychotic/Mad sense. Responding to Richard Gipps’ On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind’ , in Handbook of Phenomenological Bioethics, London/New York: Bloomsbury.

Journalism

Publications for The British Medical Journal:

• 04/10/20. ‘Withdrawing Priadel—very expensive for the NHS and extremely worrying for patients’ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/10/04/withdrawing-priadel-very-expensive-for-the-nhs-and-extremely-worrying-for-patients/
• 13/08/20. (With Agnes Ayton) On obesity and eating disorders (‘Rapid Response’). https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3084/rapid-responses
• 05/08/20. (With Agnes Ayton and David Viljoen) ‘Treatment for eating disorders during and after COVID-19.’ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/08/04/treatment-for-eating-disorders-during-and-after-covid-19/
• 03/04/20 ‘Lorna Collins: Covid-19: No one seems to know how to help people with mental health problems during lockdown’ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/04/03/lorna-collins-covid-19-no-one-seems-to-know-how-to-help-people-with-mental-health-problems-during-lockdown/

Publications for The Guardian:

• 02/03/20 ‘I know you can recover from an eating disorder, but not in a system on its knees’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/02/recovery-eating-disorder-system-on-its-knees?CMP=share_btn_link

• 08/01/20. ‘I’ve seen fellow patients die of eating disorders. This needs tackling – fast’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/08/ive-seen-fellow-patients-die-of-eating-disorders-this-needs-tackling-fast

• 11/07/19. ‘Doctors couldn’t diagnose my mental health problems. But then they saw my art. I was sectioned until painting changed my life. Now I want to help other people heal through embracing their artistic side’ (Blood, sweat and tears, Guardian Society). https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/11/sectioned-mental-health-problems-art-saved-me

Publications for The Independent:

• 10/07/22. ‘How I channelled my hallucinations into creating children’s stories’, (Indy Voices). https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/psychosis-brain-injury-hallucinations-creativity-b2119887.html2/09/19. ‘Through Thick and Thin’, (eating disorders + obesity crisis, Long Read, Independent Premium).
• 1/04/19. ‘How one woman’s mission to help indigenous Indians backfired into post-empire soul-searching’, (Long Read, Indy Minds).
• 25/02/19. ‘Now I have this thing called life’: How art, family and my dog helped me overcome anorexia’, (Long Read, Indy Minds).
• 21/12/06 ‘David Smith, Sculptures’, review of ‘David Smith, Sculptures’, Tate Modern.
• 22/07/06 ‘Passion’, preview of Festival at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
• 10/06/06 ‘Howard Hodgkin’, preview of this retrospective at Tate Britain.
• 10/06/06 ‘Marcel Breuer – Design and Architecture’, preview of this exhibition at ‘The Lighthouse’, Glasgow.

Publications for The Southwark News (the Art Criticism column):

• 06/11/08 ‘Rothko blockbuster at Tate Modern’, review of ‘Rothko’, Tate Modern.
• 25/09/08 ‘Sizzling bacon’, review of ‘Francis Bacon’, Tate Britain.
• 22/01/08 ‘There’s a Crack in the Tate’, review of ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Tate Modern.
• 26/07/07 ‘The film of Dalí’, Review of ‘Dalí and Film’, Tate Modern.
• 22/07/07 ‘Blind Light at The Hayward’, review of ‘Antony Gormley; Blind Light’, Hayward Gallery.
• 22/03/07 ‘The Dirty World of Gilbert & George’, review of ‘Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition’, Tate Modern.
• 01/03/07 ‘Treasure trove from nothing’, review of ‘John Armleder: About Nothing’, South London Gallery.
• 24/01/07 ‘Protest lost at Tate Britain’, review of ‘State Britain’, Tate Britain.
• 12/10/06 ‘Steamroller Flattens Turner Prize’, review of Turner Prize, Tate Britain.
• 28/09/06 ‘Building Blocks’, review of ‘Martin Blake; Constructed Paintings’, Sassoon Gallery.
• 28/09/06 ‘A damn good Hood in the Wood!’, review of ‘Hood in the Wood’, Unicorn Theatre.
• 14/09/06 ‘Improve the world in 60 years’, review of ‘How to Improve the World’, Hayward Gallery.
• 10/08/06 ‘This is why We Love Peckham’, review of ‘I Love Peckham’ festival, Peckham.
• 10/08/06 ‘Oz has a buzz’, review of ‘Oz’, Unicorn Theatre.
• 04/08/06 ‘I love Peckham, do you?’, preview of ‘I Love Peckham’ Festival, Peckham.
• 26/07/06 ‘Passion for paint’, review of ‘Passion for paint’, National Gallery.
• 21/07/06 ‘Love and death blown up’, review of Bill Viola, Haunch of Venison.
• 21/07/06 ‘Is this how contemporary artists party?’, review of Pierre Huyghe, Albert Oehlen, Whitechapel.
• 20/07/06 ‘Celebration or hangover?’, review of ‘Pierre Huyghe, Celebration Park’, Tate Modern.
• 06/06/06 ‘Kandinsky’s colourful Spirit’, review of ‘Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction’, Tate Modern.
• 06/06/06 ‘Queasy colours’, review of Howard Hoddgkin, Tate Britain.
• 22/06/06 ‘A rich Rembrandt’, review of ‘Rembrandt & Co, Dealing in Masterpieces’, Dulwich Picture Gallery.
• 15/06/06 ‘Holding life in your hands’, review of Graeme Miller, Dilston Grove.
• 15/06/06 ‘Visions of Nature’, review of Suran Derges, Purdy Hicks Gallery.
• 08/06/06 ‘Constable: The Great Landscapes’, review of ‘Constable: The Great Landscapes’, Tate Britain.
• 02/06/06 ‘Another new world?’, review of ‘Modernism, Designing a New World’ at Victoria and Albert Museum.
• 02/06/06 ‘A play for pirates!’, review of ‘Treasure Island’, Unicorn Theatre.
• 01/06/06 ‘Do you want to go around the world?’, review of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at South London Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Art.
• 24/05/06 ‘Irish Visions’, review of ‘Other Visions’, Purdy Hicks Gallery.
• 24/05/06 ‘Artists show us inside art’, review of ‘Inside/Outside’ from ‘Artists Show Art’.
• 18/05/06 ‘Undercover Surrealism’, review of ‘Undercover Surrealism’, Hayward Gallery.
• 12/05/06 ‘Artists Show Art’, preview of ‘Inside/Outside’ from Artists Show Art.
• 11/05/06 ‘Temporal Moments at the Cafe Gallery’ Review of Kabir Hussain’s ‘Temporal Moments’.
• 5/05/06 ‘Outside is in!’, review of ‘Inner Worlds Outside’, Whitechapel Gallery.
• 27/04/06 ‘Is this the New World?’, review of ‘Albers and Moholy-Nagy…the new world’, Tate Modern.
• 21/04/06 ‘The London Group in Southwark’, review of the London Group Festival.
• 4/04/06 ‘Cooltan Arts: A Safe Place’, review of Cooltan Arts Exhibition and Gallery.
• 06/04/06 ‘A Portrait of Everything?’, review of Nigel Cooke, South London Gallery.
• 30/03/06 ‘Nature Studies’, review of Neeta Madahar, Purdy Hicks Gallery.
• 30/03/06 ‘Dissecting the natural world’, review of Zoe Benbow, Café Gallery.
• 23/3/06 ‘Go Play Antarctica!’, review of Play Antarctica, Unicorn Theatre.
• 24/02/06 ‘The Seduction of Destruction’, review of Gothic Nightmares, Tate Britain.
• 16/02/06 ‘The Art of Light’, review of Dan Flavin, Hayward Gallery.
• 16/02/06 ‘Gallipoli’, review of Tony Linforth-Hall, Gallery 33,
• 09/02/06 ‘Where’s the well?’, rview of Daniel Roth, South London Gallery.

Published poetry:

• June 2020. ‘The Bluebells’ Lockdown’ in Poems For a Pandemic. London: Harper Collins. (Best selling anthology)
• June 2020. Featured in Elliot’s Face magazine, Jesus College, Cambridge.
• April 2019. ‘Chromopathos’, in Arts and Letters, Issue 1, Cambridge, USA.
• 2019-20. Being Sedated, anthology of poems being prepared, publication forthcoming.
• Autumn 2015. ‘Tricks of the Mind’, in Battersea Review.
• February 2015. “Dull’ in The Dull
• February 2013. ‘And I quote’, in Inky Needles.
• May 2013. ‘JEu du coeur’, in Squeaky Wheels.

Selected other articles:

• 11/22. Royal Society for Public Health, Arts, Health and Wellbeing, ‘Lorna Collins: advocating lived experience in arts and health’.
• 2019. ‘Stigma and eating disorders, theory and practice’, for Mental Elf​​​​​​​.
• 10/21. ‘Art and mental health on Instagram’, Mental Elf, 01/10/21.
• 05/21. Royal Society for Public Health, article on “Creative Lives”. 
• 01/21. ‘Mood changes during art workshops: what can they teach us?’, Mental Elf, 14/01/21.
• 10/20. ‘Recovery narratives by young people with mental health difficulties’, Mental Elf, 14/10/20.
• 2020. ‘Arts-Based Methods in Refugee Research: Creating Sanctuary’, Arts & Health 12 (3): 278-280. 
• 2019. ‘Stigma and eating disorders, theory and practice’, Mental Elf​​​​​​​, 20/12/19.
• 2019. ‘Playing for Time Theatre Company: Perspectives from the Prison’, Arts & Health 12(2): 194–195.
• ‘Mulvey, patriarchy and gender: expression and disruption in visual art’ in New Review of Film and Television Studies,15, 4. Special Issue on Laura Mulvey.
• 05/11 ‘The Department of Wrong Answers’ in A-N magazine.
• 07/10 ‘Making Restorative Sense with Deleuzian Morality, Art Brut and the Schizophrenic’ in Deleuze Studies, Edinburgh University Press.July 2010, Vol. 4, No. 2: pp. 234-255.
• 01/10 ‘The Wild Being of Louise Bourgeois: Merleau-Ponty in the Flesh’ in Romance Studies 28 No. 1, pp.47-56.
• 01/09 ‘Animated’ review of show at Wysing Arts Centre, for A-Nmagazine.
• 07/08 ‘Sensations spill a Deluge over the Figure’ in DeleuzeStudies, Edinburgh University Press.