Silen Wellington

Publications

• “This One” poetry-essay published in the second edition of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, 2022.

• Moments of Possible: Queer Joy, Resilience & Community as Suicide Prevention, first place winner of the American Association of Suicidology Paul G. Quinnett Lived Experience Writing Competition, 2021

• “Reclaiming the Many Gendered Moon” published in Bleeding Thunder Issue 2, 2021.

• “Return” published in Issue No. 2 of Impossible Archetype, 2017.

• “Cyborg Manifesto for the Not-yet Coven” published in the Gender & Ethnic Studies Section of the University of Colorado Honors Journal, 2018.

• Poetry from “when my body becomes the art” published in the University of Colorado Honors Journal, 2018.

Podcasts

• Interview with me & Tessa Romano about interdisciplinary, interactive show Place Them on the Altar. Click here to listen, 2022.

• Story + interview about finding my voice on testosterone & being seen in community, with Wonder Queer podcast, Episode 12, 2021. Click here to listen.

• Interview about “when my body becomes the art” with Robert McClure for the podcast Lexical Tones. Click here to listen (my part starts around 14:30), 2019.

Press

• Metro Weekly article about What the Spirits Show opera premier, 2023

• WETA article about American Opera Initiative & Kennedy Center premier, 2023

• Press Release on American Opera Initiative, premier with Kennedy Center, 2023

• OutFront article about interdisciplinary, interactive show Place Them on the Altar, 2022.

• Interview for 2022 Bouman Fellowship on I Care if You Listen.

• CU Independent’s review of Body Like Scripture, September 2019.

• OutFront’s press release about my first full-length solo show, Body Like Scripture, performed in September 2019.

• CU Independent press release about Body Like Scripture, September 2019.

• Interview with Steven Ricks about “when my body becomes the art” at the SEAMUS conference in March 2019. Click here to read.

• ​​OutFront article about my drag persona, 2018.

Writings and Essays

• Reflections on Trans Day of Remembrance after Club Q (2022)

• Moments of Possible: Queer Joy, Resilience & Community as Suicide Prevention (2021) *Winner of the American Association of Suicidology’s Lived Experience Essay Contest

• Reproductive Justice Means Autonomy Over My Trans Body (2021)

• Sex Work is Work & It’s Time to Decriminalize (2021)