Jon Stone

Jon is a poet, researcher and editor with a specialism in hybrid and ludic literary forms, interactive fiction and collaborative writing. He has previously won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award, the Poetry London prize (twice, in 2014 and 2016) and the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize.

He is the author of Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games (DeGruyter, 2022) and a founding member of the Cambridge Writing Centre at Anglia Ruskin University. As a co-director and editor at Sidekick Books, he has commissioned and edited content for a number of experimental multi-author anthologies, including Roll Again: A Book of Games to Play (Sidekick Books, 2022) and Bad Kid Catullus (Sidekick Books, 2018), which was one of The Guardian’s Top 10 poetry anthologies of 2018.

His debut poetry collection, School of Forgery (Salt, 2012), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and his most recent poetry pamphlets are Unravelanche (Broken Sleep, 2021) and Sandsnarl (The Emma Press, 2021). He has also published an essay pamphlet, Poems Are Toys (And Toys are Good For You) (Calque Press, 2023).

Jon has previously written articles for The Guardian and the UK gaming press, and worked as a freelance writer for toy companies.