Jemima Skala
Writer and editor
About
Jemima Skala is a writer and editor based in London.Her journalism has appeared in Dazed, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Plaster Magazine, Pitchfork and more. She has held editorial positions at Mixmag and Polyester Zine.Her essays and short stories have been published in Worms Magazine and Lesbian Art Circle.She has a pamphlet forthcoming in 2025 with tallfingerpress.Her work examines the intersection of art, literature and culture with identity, queerness, community, mental health and gender.
EDUCATION
2021
MA Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds2019
BA English and French, University of LeedsFICTION
2023
‘Seven Months, 24 Days and Counting’, short story, Worms Magazine 7, printESSAYS
2024
‘Reading therapy: talking to my mother, a psychotherapist’, Worms 9‘Leaves or branches’, Lesbian Art Circle, print2023
‘Consider a fire’, Worms Magazine 8, printFACILITATOR/PANELIST
2024
Tourist, album launch event at Soho House2023
IMS Ibiza, moderator for 'Unlocking community-led experiences through data and discovery'2021
Bradford Music Network x Launchpad, panelist and speakerPERFORMER
2024
Worms Magazine x Girls In Film, reader at short film night, Shoreditch Arts Club2023
Worms Magazine, reader at launch event, YMC ShoreditchSELECTED JOURNALISM
2025
'Squinting at Mountains: a review of Zsuzsanna Gahse's Mountainish', It's Freezing in LA!2024
‘Lewis Hammond: “music and sound enters the body. You feel it before you can
diagnose it”’, Plaster Magazine'Buying a house with a vineyard', Financial Times‘Maggie Nelson on ‘Like Love’, melding the personal with the academic and the
Eras tour’, Polyester Zine‘Music vs Lyrics’, Dirt‘A seaside grotto mysteriously clad with millions of shells inspired my fantasy
collector’s home’, Financial Times2023
‘Rejecting Death and Accepting Life’, profile of Future Islands, Loud & Quiet, print‘Sophia Giovannitti is shifting how we see art and sex work’, Polyester Zine‘Silvana Estrada’s sprawling, radiant songs find beauty in the world around us’, NME‘Exploring TikTok’s guidance on social cues, eye contact and friendship’, Polyester Zine‘Baby Rose: as a Black artist, it’s my responsibility to go crazy and not hold back’, NME2022
‘Foushée: explosive and futuristic punk sounds from a true original’, NME‘Lil Silva: a distinctive, club-ready debut a decade in the making’, NME‘HAAi: the creator of a high-flying, vibrant electronic wonderland’, NME‘Fly Anakin: sitting in the melting pot’, Loud & QuietSofia Kourtesis, Mixmag cover feature‘This poignant short film makes noise of women musicians’ silencing in Iran’, Dazed2021
‘Why Adaptation Festival is a statement of the strength of Leeds’ dance music
community’, Mixmag‘How Coventry’s 24-hour hedonistic raves led a social and musical revolution’, Dazed‘Meditations on radio DJs’, Crack, printAlbum review of Tidibàbide/Turn by Kìzis, Pitchfork‘Community Drive: WIZE’, Native InstrumentsMykki Blanco, Mixmag cover featureFolamour, Mixmag cover feature‘Grove’s radical self-expression inspires collective freedom’, Mixmag‘Hannah Peel pays tribute to an early synth pioneer on ‘Wave’’, BandcampLogic1000, Mixmag cover feature2020
Shygirl, Mixmag cover featureResident Advisor album reviewsAlbum review of Silver Ladders by Mary Lattimore, Pitchfork‘Sinead O’Brien is the post-punk poet creating immersive observations about life’s
complexities’, The Forty FiveAlbum review of Salvador by Sega Bodega, Pitchfork