Lauren is a writer from Calderdale, West Yorkshire. She writes fiction and essays on themes including memory, queerness, the past and future. In 2020 she was selected to become a member of The Writing Squad.
In 2022, her work-in-progress novel ‘Perseverance’ was awarded second place in the Writers & Artists Working Class Writer’s Prize.
You can get in touch via Twitter @laurenCmaltas or via email lcm1810@gmail.com
Recent Work
'Golden', a short story in SAND 23
Review of Rebecca Tamás' 'Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman', featured in Land Lines Blog Community Reviews
Ep.2 with Lauren Maltas, a episode of the Unravel podcast in which Dany Bowen and Lauren Maltas discuss the work of poet Roger Robinson, what it means to listen and having access to poetry and a safe home
'Dear Mum (Tiny Trees)', a letter-poem in See Through Issue #1
'Process: On writing, inexperience and Kathleen Jamie' an essay published by Land Lines
'Meaning What' and 'tells us when life begins' two poems published in Strix #7
'Wireless', a 'shed-centric, tomato-growing, spying-on-your-neighbours' short story at Caught by the River
'The Self Conscious Spaces in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun' a conference paper given at the Land Lines Nature Writing Conference at the University of Leeds
