About

Will Vigar is a writer whose work explores memory, symbolic worlds, ritual, architecture, landscape and the ordinary structures through which people make life habitable. His essays combine philosophy, cultural criticism and autobiography to examine the ways people inhabit time, place and meaning.

He has worked in the music industry as musician, manager, record sleeve designer, song doctor, tour manager, promoter and reviewer in a number music magazines and under many, many pseudonyms.

He worked for BBC Local Radio for over ten years, contributing sketches, articles, reviews and interviews to a number of magazine programmes. He then co-presented a programme highlighting and promoting local artists and musicians.

In the early 2000’s, he wrote a small press/indie comic called “Miserable” that received good reviews, TV support and three printings. “Dead Miserable” followed and sold even more. He wrote a third but took a degree in Fine Art instead of publishing that one. 

At University, he specialised in Sonic Installation, Text Art and Environmental Micro-interventions and still doesn’t know how he got away with it. Or what exactly they are.

A short-lived comic strip entitled “The Bizarre Adventures of Alberto and Jeff” led to a stint as a contributing editor at a Graphic Novel Publishing House as commisioning editor, contributor and script doctor.

In 2017, he was awarded a distinction and the Annual Creative Writing Prize for his MA Creative Writing final project; a psychogeographical study – in prose and poetry – of a demolished Brutalist housing estate, extracts of which were published in The London Magazine.

In 2018, he embarked on a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth while writing a sci-fi script for tv just because he hadn’t written on before.  In 2023, he became Doctor of Philosophy by writting about agoraphobia, hauntology and arrested time.

Fiercely Northern, he lives in Hampshire and is not best pleased about it.

 

Books

The Weather Station – dispatches From an inhabited world (2026) (currently unpublished)

Revenents – Stories We Just Can’t Kill (2026) (currently unpublished)

The Architecture of Cosmic Indifference (2026) (currently unpblished)

Thresholds and other Voids (2026) (currently published)

Glitch: Superheroes and the Undead Life of Myth (2026)

Love, Death and the Crucial Three (novel) (2026)

Haunted When The Minutes Drag: Hauntology, Agoraphobia and Arrested Time. (2026)

12 Short Poems (2023

Futhark, and Other Northern Tales. (2023)

Vague Wisdom – Poetry collection published by The London Magazine Editions. (2022)

Submerged: An Act of Catharsis (2020)

“Lunar Tattoos” (2017)

“Absent Ginsberg: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry” (2016)

“Zombre: A Borderline Press Undead Anthology”, (2014)

“Beasts” (unpublished) (2015)

“Spoko” (co-editor) (2015)

“Hunger House” (2015)  (Editor/Script polisher)

“Going Home (Part One) ‘Lost’” (2016)

“Do You Dream In Colour?” (2009)

“Flight” (2010) and

“198 Crap Portraits”. (2010)

“LIFE<infinite>DEATH: A paradox in 50 cards” (2017)

He has also appeared in The London Magazine many times and is waiting patiently for his first full collection to be published…