A live list of my academic and creative publications. Most are available open access, so please contact me if you’re struggling to find a copy.
CREATIVE WRITING
Buttermilk and Liverwurst (2024) Granta Online Edition: short story. Open access.
A Giant on the Bridge (2024): Gig-theatre created as part of the Distant Voices project. Devised by Jo Mango (Jo Collinson-Scott), Liam Hurley with research by Phil Crockett Thomas. Originally developed through the work of the Distant Voices Community.
The Town Marshal (2022) BBC Radio 4: Short story commissioned for The Poet and the Echo by BBC Radio 4. Open access.
Erratics (2021): Commission for Hanne Lillee’s Foreign Fauna: creative non-fiction.
Stir, field works from the Distant Voices project (2020): A collection of poems and a short essay written for the Distant Voices project (2017-2021). Open access.
Crime Series (2020) is a collection of sociological fiction and poetry written during my doctoral project (2013-2018). Open access.
We who are about to… chapter one (2018): Speculative fiction inspired by a research workshop. Written for the Distant Voices project (2017-2021). Open access.
In Her Direction (2017) SoFi. Issue 1: Short work of sociological fiction.
The Girls Get Younger Every Year (2015): Satirical play about sexual harassment in higher education. Designed as a workshopping tool. Open access.
Magic Circle (2013) Ambit Magazine. Issue 214: short story.
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Crockett Thomas P (ed.) (2024) Beyond the Game: An edited collection of creative writing by current and former athletes on transitions and retirement from elite sports performance. Developed as part of Crafting the Future: Exploring the Power of Creative Writing in Pre-retirement Preparation for Athletes, a research project led by myself and Hee Jung Hong (2023-24). Open access.
Crockett Thomas P (ed.) (2022) Abolition Science Fiction: An edited collection of short stories, discussions, and writing exercises. Part of my fellowship project Prison Break (2021-2022). Open access.
Abercrombie T, Roberts R and Crockett Thomas P (eds.) (2022) The Moon Spins the Dead Prison: An Anthology of Abolition. Creative Scotland.
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
Crockett Thomas P (2025) Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination. The Sociological Review. (Online first 2025).
Crockett Thomas P (2022) The Researcher as Unreliable Narrator: Writing Sociological Crime Fiction as a Research Method. Law and Humanities. 16(2): 207-225.
Crockett Thomas P (2022) Stir: Poetic field works from the Distant Voices project. Crime, Media, Culture 18(1): 40-51.
Crockett Thomas P, McNeill F, Cathcart Frödén L, Collinson Scott J, Escobar O and Urie A (2021) Re-writing punishment? Songs and narrative problem-solving. Incarceration 2(1): 1-19.
Crockett Thomas P (2021) Writing Sociological Crime Fiction: You Will Have Your Day in Court. Art/Research International 6(1), 218-250.
Crockett Thomas P, Collinson-Scott J, McNeill F, Cathcart Frödén L, Escobar O, Urie A. (2020) Mediating Punishment? Prisoners’ Songs as Relational ‘Problem-Solving’ Devices. Law Text Culture 24: 1-25.
Crockett Thomas, P. (2020) Crime as an assemblage. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology 12: 68-79.
Urie A, McNeill F, Cathcart Frödén L, Collinson-Scott, J Crockett Thomas P, Escobar O, Macleod S and McKerracher G. (2019) Reintegration, hospitality and hostility: song-writing and song-sharing in criminal justice. Journal of Extreme Anthropology 3(1): 77-101.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Crockett Thomas P (In Press) Abolition Science Fiction (2022). In Truman S. E (ed) Teaching and Researching with Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury.
Crockett Thomas P (In Press) Action and Analysis: Poetry, Prisons, and the Sociological Imagination. In: Stacey R (ed.) Teaching Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan.
Crockett Thomas P (2026) Your feet may change size: murder mystery, motherhood, and the anti-carceral imaginary. In Bates, C, Jackson, E (eds.) Walking: A sociological field guide. Manchester University Press: 213-223.
Crockett Thomas P (2025) On Phil Collins’s (2020) ‘Bring Down the Walls’. In Cathcart Frödén L, Herrity K and Mangaoang A (eds.) Sound and Detention: Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice. Bloomsbury: 103-108.
McNeill F, Crockett Thomas P, Cathcart Frödén L, Collinson-Scott J, Escobar O, Urie A (2022) Time After Time Imprisonment, re-entry and enduring temporariness. In: Carr N and Robinson G (eds.) Time and Punishment. Routledge. Our chapter is available open access: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12108-1_7
Thomas P (2014) Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal and Authenticity within the Multiplication of Online Discourses. In Blanco Borelli, M (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen. Oxford University Press: 289-303. Available: http://research.gold.ac.uk/26090/
OTHER WRITING, REVIEWS, & WORKING PAPERS
Crockett Thomas P (2025) on Martin McCreadie | Out Through the Head. Glasgow Sculpture Studio.
Crockett Thomas P (2023) Poems as Portals [review of Nat Raha’s epistolary (on carceral islands) as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2023]. MAP Magazine. 10/23
Twahirwa R (ed) (2023) Q and A with Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors on Abolition Science Fiction. LSE Review of Books.
Crockett Thomas P (2022) Abolition Science Fiction. DOPE Magazine, Issue 20, Winter.
Crockett Thomas P (2020) Imaginative Criminology [review]. Sociological Review, 2 Jul.
Crockett Thomas P (2019) How to do things with songs, Distant Voices, 18/06/19.
Thomas P (2019) Distant Voices, Howard League for Penal Reform Early Career Academics Network Bulletin, Issue 41: 24-31.
Thomas P (2018) ‘We who are about to’ Chapter one, Distant Voices, 9/02/18.
Crockett Thomas P (2018) Literature Review: Practice Research: working paper available at SSRN.
Crockett Thomas P (2017) Literature Review: Collaborative Ethnography: working paper available at SSRN.
Thomas P (2016) Grand Designs The Sociological Review: guest blog piece reflecting on writing fiction as a research methodology, 1/05/16.
Iossifidis M, Thomas P (2012) Reading the riots: one year on, OpenDemocracy
Thomas P (2012) At the National Theatre: a review Lloyd Newson/DV8’s Can We Talk About This? for the LRB blog
PODCASTS
Just Images (2025-) is a a podcast created by my students at the University of Stirling as part of the module Cultural and Creative Criminology. Each episode takes two artworks and discusses them in relation to criminological themes as chosen by the students. Episodes were researched, recorded, and edited by students.
Just Humans: Season 1, Episode 2: Translation (as guest) (2020)
Streetsigns: Becoming Different Together (as guest) (2020)
Castaway, for the Distant Voices project (2018).
Like Birds Flying Towards the Light, for the Distant Voices project (2018)
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