Events, Press, and Publications

Crockett Thomas, P (2026) Abolition Science Fiction. In Truman S.E (ed.) Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction: Transdisciplinary Readings and Methods (chapter in open access book).
Crockett Thomas, P (2025) Straying with the Trouble: science fiction, utopia, and the anti-carceral imagination. The Sociological Review, (open access journal article).
Writing Ourselves into The Future –
Talk with Gracie Mae Bradley, Hanna Thomas Uose, Phil Crockett Thomas, Season Butler, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, chaired by Joon-Lynn Goh, organised by Migrants in Culture, Online 06/02/2024
Abolition Here and Everywhere –
Talk with JJ Fadaka, Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity (GPS), and Mairi Oliver at Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair, organised by Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh 10/11/2023
Abolition Library –
Day workshop with Kirstin Anderson, Sarah Anderson, Martha O’Carroll, and Victoria Law, in partnership with Lighthouse Books and the SCCJR, Edinburgh 11/07/2023
ISRF Abolition Science Fiction Book Launch! –
Conversation with Phil Crockett Thomas, Ali Eisa, and Sarah Lamble, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London 14/06/2023
Author Q and A with editor Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors Koshka Duff and Dave on Abolition Science Fiction, interviewed by Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa – LSE Review of Books, 24/05/2023
Counter Social: Abolition Edition –
Lighthouse Books not-a-book-club social with Kirstin Anderson and Sarah Anderson, Edinburgh 26/04/2023
Imagining a World Without Police and Prisons –
Workshop and open mic with Jj Fadaka & the Community Wellbeing Collective at the Community Wellbeing Space, Edinburgh 25/03/2023
Abolition Science Fiction Creative Writing Workshop – reading and writing workshop at Mayday Rooms, London 04/03/2023
Abolition Science Fiction Book Launch! – contributor reading and celebration at Mount Florida Books, Glasgow 23/02/2023
Feature on Abolition Science Fiction with contributors Lizzie Hughes and Richard C Quorum – DOPE Magazine, Issue 20, Winter 2022
Critical Utopias? Fictioning a World Without Prisons –
Creative writing workshop with Thomas Abercromby for School of Abolition at Market Gallery, Glasgow 14/04/2022
Imagined Futures and Utopian Methods – symposium at Many Studios, Glasgow 03/05/2022, supported by the ISRF and SCCJR