Writers on Boxing
@writersonboxing.bsky.social
An archive of writing on boxing, including books, essays, plays, operas & our boxing fanzine, The Spit Bucket. 🥊 https://writersonboxing.com/about/
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I've been reading a lot about boxing and thought I'd put everything together in a list in case it's of interest to anyone else.
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#boxing #books #sportswriting
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Deadline day to get your boxing-themed art, poetry and prose into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
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January 30, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Deadline day to get your boxing-themed art, poetry and prose into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Deadline day to get your boxing-themed art, poetry and prose into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Deadline day to get your boxing-themed art, poetry and prose into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.
2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 AM
One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.
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2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.
2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 AM
One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.
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This month, 1889, England's first Black Lady Boxers continued to give exhibition matches, performing at the New Cross Public Hall, South London 🥊
Here's 'Violet' and 'Rosaline', the Sisters Mills, pictured with their promotor, top middleweight Alf Ball:
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Here's 'Violet' and 'Rosaline', the Sisters Mills, pictured with their promotor, top middleweight Alf Ball:
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January 2, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This month, 1889, England's first Black Lady Boxers continued to give exhibition matches, performing at the New Cross Public Hall, South London 🥊
Here's 'Violet' and 'Rosaline', the Sisters Mills, pictured with their promotor, top middleweight Alf Ball:
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/03/10/f...
Here's 'Violet' and 'Rosaline', the Sisters Mills, pictured with their promotor, top middleweight Alf Ball:
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/03/10/f...
2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Spending my in-betweeny bit here in north London cleaning-up and transcribing (for fun (and study)) this wonderful conversation between Sarah Kane and @danrebellato.bsky.social from 1998.
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An 'informal' transcript here - intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandthea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYf...
An 'informal' transcript here - intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandthea...
Sarah Kane in conversation with Dan Rebellato
YouTube video by RoyalHollowayDrama
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December 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Spending my in-betweeny bit here in north London cleaning-up and transcribing (for fun (and study)) this wonderful conversation between Sarah Kane and @danrebellato.bsky.social from 1998.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYf...
An 'informal' transcript here - intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandthea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYf...
An 'informal' transcript here - intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandthea...
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For The Spit Bucket @writersonboxing.bsky.social I visited a statue of featherweight champ Johnny Kilbane in Cleveland.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For The Spit Bucket @writersonboxing.bsky.social I visited a statue of featherweight champ Johnny Kilbane in Cleveland.
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I started things off right with a piece in The Spit Bucket @writersonboxing.bsky.social about the painter Francis Bacon and a small study he made of Jack Dempsey.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I started things off right with a piece in The Spit Bucket @writersonboxing.bsky.social about the painter Francis Bacon and a small study he made of Jack Dempsey.
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Quick blog post after spotting something interesting in a bookshop in Oxford at the weekend.
Post no.115: ' An Almanac of Twelve Sports' by William Nicholson and Rudyard Kipling. - writersonboxing.com/2025/12/16/1...
Post no.115: ' An Almanac of Twelve Sports' by William Nicholson and Rudyard Kipling. - writersonboxing.com/2025/12/16/1...
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Quick blog post after spotting something interesting in a bookshop in Oxford at the weekend.
Post no.115: ' An Almanac of Twelve Sports' by William Nicholson and Rudyard Kipling. - writersonboxing.com/2025/12/16/1...
Post no.115: ' An Almanac of Twelve Sports' by William Nicholson and Rudyard Kipling. - writersonboxing.com/2025/12/16/1...
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Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
October 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/
Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
October 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
I'm a joiner and furniture maker away from this boxing account and used to work for Isokon so booked to view some of their historical items (older version of the ones I made) in the collection at V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick.
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I'm a joiner and furniture maker away from this boxing account and used to work for Isokon so booked to view some of their historical items (older version of the ones I made) in the collection at V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick.
🥊 Only two weeks left to get your prose, poetry, art work in for consideration for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. 🥊
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🥊 Only two weeks left to get your prose, poetry, art work in for consideration for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. 🥊
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Book blog no.114: 'Boxing Athenas' by N'Krumah Lawson Daku.
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#boxing #photography #books
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#boxing #photography #books
#114: ‘Boxing Athenas’ by N’Krumah Lawson Daku
‘Boxing Athenas’ is a photographic essay by artist N’Krumah Lawson Daku.This project began in 2010 as a way of documenting female boxers at Parisian club Boxing Beats Aubervillier…
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June 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Book blog no.114: 'Boxing Athenas' by N'Krumah Lawson Daku.
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#boxing #photography #books
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#boxing #photography #books
Fantastic conversation in the latest issue of The Spit Bucket with @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social about the notation method he has devised for transcribing boxing movement.
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Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
June 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Fantastic conversation in the latest issue of The Spit Bucket with @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social about the notation method he has devised for transcribing boxing movement.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Issue 6 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket is now in the world. Pick up copies from us in person, or download a free PDF here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Issue 6 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket is now in the world. Pick up copies from us in person, or download a free PDF here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
🚨🥊 two weeks left to get your boxing-related art, prose and poetry into us for the birthday edition of The Spit Bucket 🥊🚨
🥊🚨 zine call-out… please share! 🚨🥊
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
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We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
May 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨🥊 two weeks left to get your boxing-related art, prose and poetry into us for the birthday edition of The Spit Bucket 🥊🚨
National finals day in Derby 🥊
April 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
National finals day in Derby 🥊
Lenny is brilliant, the club is brilliant. Like a second home.
Ahead of the British Boxing Awards this month, I met with Islington Boxing Club’s Lenny Hagland to discuss their nomination for the Grassroots Hero/Initiative award.
Hagland speaks about the club's transformation, its community and wanting to leave a legacy.
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Hagland speaks about the club's transformation, its community and wanting to leave a legacy.
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‘My dad left a legacy, I want to do the same’: Lenny Hagland on building Islington Boxing Club, fighters and a community
i visited Lenny Hagland at Islington Boxing Club’s gym on Hazelville Road to discuss the club’s recent nomination at the British Boxing Awards. We also spoke about how he has built the …
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April 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Lenny is brilliant, the club is brilliant. Like a second home.