Ella Fox-Martens

Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com Ella Fox-Martens Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:38:36 +0000 https://ellafoxmartens.com en home https://ellafoxmartens.com/home-1 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:18:55 +0000 Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com/home-1 ella fox-martenshome · about · writing · visiting hours · substack · contact <img width="1695" height="1282" width_o="1695" height_o="1282" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e16f911b8748d0599e5ed9f6ac058ca0b8f53a2581d2e0f9b7d03fb1bc0faf7/Screenshot-2023-08-14-at-14.46.14.png" data-mid="187900195" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e16f911b8748d0599e5ed9f6ac058ca0b8f53a2581d2e0f9b7d03fb1bc0faf7/Screenshot-2023-08-14-at-14.46.14.png" /> visiting hours https://ellafoxmartens.com/visiting-hours Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:38:36 +0000 Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com/visiting-hours visiting hourshome · about · writing · visiting hours · substack · contact <img width="1503" height="1515" width_o="1503" height_o="1515" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/708c9f0e978c7aa7d32aed70e7a922c0c1f2c58c64c5e40c8b53141b6a2109ae/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-13.53.41.png" data-mid="252342741" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/708c9f0e978c7aa7d32aed70e7a922c0c1f2c58c64c5e40c8b53141b6a2109ae/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-13.53.41.png" /> You could spin a hundred stories about us based on these items, each untrue in their own way. But that was history: a series of facts embroidered with the loose thread of fantasy.In the midst of a miserable London winter, Antjie Pienaar is trying her best. It’s been six months since her much-lauded historian father died, leaving her with a flat she can’t afford, a collection of useless academic textbooks and a tenuous grasp on reality. She spends her days working reluctantly at a right-wing newspaper, editing articles on inheritance taxes and avoiding the mouse infestation. It’s all very far from the storied future her father imagined for her when they moved to England — which might explain why he always seemed to find her so disappointing.Then Antjie’s disgraced, oddly charismatic colleague is fired, kicking off a series of strange encounters that lead her through the city’s most gilded rooms. When she’s offered an indecent proposal — one which her father would have despised — Antjie is forced to decide what matters most to her: being good, or making ends meet. Haunted by the great man her father supposedly was, the seams of her identity are slowly picked apart. Memory, history and narrative begin to unravel. Is there really, as he always said, the chance to do the right thing?Visiting Hours is forthcoming in 2028 from Picador Books in the United Kingdom, and Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in the United States. <img width="667" height="667" width_o="667" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02bd3ac934b63fef0237517e4480499d29795c910c0f21a7f3825378a9206a50/3D196D2A-086F-45FF-A735-A0101CA81C43.jpeg" data-mid="252342751" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/02bd3ac934b63fef0237517e4480499d29795c910c0f21a7f3825378a9206a50/3D196D2A-086F-45FF-A735-A0101CA81C43.jpeg" /> substack https://ellafoxmartens.com/substack-1 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:33:54 +0000 Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com/substack-1 substackhome · about · writing · visiting hours · substack · contact <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3150b4d7873fa45475681a63ec10457b2b1a1fd6db88387a10f54db6609a8e5b/1857ce15-c52d-461e-9fa1-a7b306310f0e.jpeg" data-mid="252342429" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3150b4d7873fa45475681a63ec10457b2b1a1fd6db88387a10f54db6609a8e5b/1857ce15-c52d-461e-9fa1-a7b306310f0e.jpeg" /> I publish essays every Tuesday on my Substack, The Goat. It’s unpaid and probably always will be. about https://ellafoxmartens.com/about-1 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:25:27 +0000 Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com/about-1 abouthome · about · writing · visiting hours · substack · contact <img width="2316" height="3088" width_o="2316" height_o="3088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4475ef9bff962357813d55334b80084fe74daa4db5bbba41f2bc5d53e0b0c5e/IMG_3930.jpeg" data-mid="252342365" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4475ef9bff962357813d55334b80084fe74daa4db5bbba41f2bc5d53e0b0c5e/IMG_3930.jpeg" />Ella Fox-Martens was born in Canada and raised between South Africa and Western Australia. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, The Baffler, The Drift, Literary Review, The Fence, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Hobart, Forever Magazine and elsewhere. She is an assistant editor at Scribner UK, and lives in London. Her debut novel Visiting Hours is forthcoming in 2028 from Picador Books in the United Kingdom and Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in the United States. She is represented by Kat Aitken at Lexington Literary. writing https://ellafoxmartens.com/writing-1 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:59:18 +0000 Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com/writing-1 writinghome · about · writing · visiting hours · substack · contact fiction What Can You Do?, Forever Magazine (print-only) | The Free State, The Drift | The Music is Beginning, Hobart | Cornucopia, The Baffler | Proof of Provenance, The End (print-only) essays On flying across the world to live with someone I’d never met, The Fence | On The Pole by J.M. Coetzee, Coetzee’s earlier body of work and language in South Africa, The Drift | On Paul by Daisy LaFarge, Gauguin and the ethics of exhibition, The Atlantic | On H.D and writing the self, The Baffler | On Annie Ernaux and unrequited love, Soft Punk Magazine | On Tim Winton and Western Australia, Soft Punk Magazine selected journalism A Sense of Occasion by Brodie Crellin, The Guardian | The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, Telegraph | Universality by Natasha Brown, Literary Review | Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch, The Whitney New Review of Books | The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride, Literary Review | Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, Literary Review | Earthly Creatures by Stevie Davies, Literary Review | The Echoes by Evie Wyld, Literary Review | I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson, Literary Review |My First Book by Honor Levy, Literary Review |  When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola Saez, TLS | The impact of MeToo for women in theatre, The Guardian | The Promise by Damon Galgut, Harvard Review | An interview with Damon Galgut, Soft Punk Magazine | The Gallery of Miracles and Madness by Charlie English, Observer | Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek, Soft Punk Magazine | The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer, Soft Punk Magazine | Abundance by Jakob Guanzon, Soft Punk Magazine | frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Soft Punk Magazine | Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler, The Rumpus  <img width="1353" height="786" width_o="1353" height_o="786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cd1caef21828ed2b6d1ac27e683d37531b01b982414f8112a7e37c4bdfd74f9/Screenshot-2023-08-14-at-15.42.16.png" data-mid="252342005" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cd1caef21828ed2b6d1ac27e683d37531b01b982414f8112a7e37c4bdfd74f9/Screenshot-2023-08-14-at-15.42.16.png" /> contact https://ellafoxmartens.com/contact-1 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:47:38 +0000 Ella Fox-Martens https://ellafoxmartens.com/contact-1 contacthome · about · writing · visiting hours · substack · contact kat@lexingtonliterary.co.uk for professional enquiries ellagfoxmartens@gmail.com for freelance commissions or other communication @ellafox_m on X and Instagram <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fb80cd288236dedb3ef8c451e0361310c4f0c219b1e8fb72cb900114921e1ed/IMG_3781.jpeg" data-mid="252341988" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2fb80cd288236dedb3ef8c451e0361310c4f0c219b1e8fb72cb900114921e1ed/IMG_3781.jpeg" />