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Winner of The Space Crone Prize for speculative and science short fiction awarded by Silver Press and The Ursula K Le Guin Literary Trust (2023)
Winner of the 2018 Prix International for Creative Critical Thinking for 'Skinned/Detouched' awarded by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco, nominated by Fatoş Üstek

'TRÍO' (Canal, 2023)
'Frot the World' (Canal, 2022)
'Skinned' and 'Detouched', by Alice Channer with text by Fer Boyd (Motto Books & Eastside Projects, 2018)
'A Theory for the Strange-Girl: Raw Red Text' (COUNTRY MUSIC, 2017)

'Aboveness' with Madeleine Stack, part of Huw Lemmey's 'The Protagonist of the Erotic', Extra Extra (2024)
'Sever Babylon', Granta (2023)
'A Secret? How Old-Fashioned!', Sticky Fingers’ FDBNHLLLTTFPARODY edited by Evelyn Wh-ell (2022)
'Organs in Amber', Stages (2021)
'A Slingshot and an Eye', Samara Editions (2021)
'Extract the mineral like an organ, transplant it' with Paula Turmina for 'Displaced Land' (2021)
'Aggregation' with Rachel Pimm, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020)
'X', Lay It On Thick, edited by Natascha Nanji and Palin Ansusinha (2020)
'Hellbox', Canal magazine #2 (2019)
'Ocular Offal, Chromatic Cannibals', Extra Extra (2019)
'The Original Recycler' published by Tornabuoni Art, London, as part of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' curated by Fatoş Üstek (2019)
'Nightbox' published by ANDOR, London as part of 'Chrome Villa' by Francesca Blomfield and Col Self (2018)
'Chewing on Potential in Heat and Shade' with Amy Lay-Pettifer, Orlando (2018)
'Live! But Dirtier' with Katharina Joy Book and Palin Ansusinha, Critical Interruptions (2018)
'A Tactile Dialect of Strong and Soft and Spiked', Afterall (2017)
'Primary Pleasures', SALT (2016)
'A Taxonomy of Explosions: Preliminary Shrapnel', After Us edited by Manuel Sepulveda (2016)
'I Feel Queezy: Feelings, Guts, Revolutions' published by Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of 'Feeling Queezy?!' curated by Rebeka Põldsam (2014)
'Bask In It: An Image Manifesto', National Museum of Photography commissioned by Catherine Grant (2013)

'Let's get Mortal', MACBA, Barcelona, part of Lydia Ourahmane's '108 Days' (26 February 2024)
'Guard the Delight', SLUG, Leipzig, part of Madeleine Stack's 'Chaos Rehearsals' (19 August - 10 September 2022)
'First Birth', Liverpool Biennial 2021: 'The Stomach and the Port', with SHELL LIKE for Alice Channer, Lewis’s Building & online (19 March - 30 September 2021)
'Death Drive', Outer Space, Australia with Madeleine Stack, Rebekah Kosonen Bide and Mariana Portela Echeverri (24 January - 9 February 2020)
'Detouch', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany, part of 'Man-made' by Alice Channer (18 January - 9 March 2019)
'But With What Protein?', ilyd.nu (1-30 June 2018)
'Ultimate Fantasies', Guest Projects, London, with Ruta Dumciute, and collaborators Leyla Pillai, Madeleine Stack, Eunjung Kim, PO$$€ dance and reading (1-29 June 2018)

'The Altered State / El Estado Alterado' with Madeleine Stack, Font del Gat, Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona (2024)
'Guarda el Deleite' with Madeleine Stack, CLUBS Art a la pista, Barcelona (2023)
'Gilding the Rim' with Madeleine Stack, Forma, London (2023)
Canal Book Tour: The Horse Hospital, London, Blunt Knife Co., Edinburgh, and Good Press, Glasgow (2022)
'God’s Gloryhole' with Madeleine Stack, SLUG, Leipzig (2022)
'The Original Recycler', Tornabuoni Art, London (2019)
'Skinned' on skates with Alice Channer, 'This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things', Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2018)
'Analbox', Baroque Vegetation, London (2018)
'Detouched' with Alice Channer, ‘The Shape Left By The Body’, The Sunday Painter, London (2018)
'Ultimate Essay' with Leyla Pillai and Ruta Dumciute, Guest Projects (2018)
'Bait Room' with Ruta Dumciute and Eunjung Kim, Guest Projects (2018)
'A Shipping Forecast By Heart', Live Art Development Agency, London (2018)
H o r i z o n t a l PPE-clad readings with Alice Channer, 'Skinned' and 'Detouched' launch, Large Glass, London (2018)
'A Theory for the Strange-Girl', performance and reading by P0$$€ dance and reading group, Vårberg public pool, Stockholm, Sweden, organised by Tamara Alegre,
part of ENDFEST: €L€M€NT$ with waterproof manuscript designed by Anna Sagström (2018)
'Selectionbox' at the launch of 'When I Was Alive' by Hannah Regel, South London Gallery, London (2017)
'A Body is a Double-Edged Sword', Even Salon: Either/Or, Apiary Studios, London (2016)

'Blueflame Backwater', No Bounds Radio (December 2022)
'Worms on the Beach' with Amy Lay-Pettifer, Montez Press Radio (26 May 2020)
'Detouch' in 'Our Fuming Lips Make A New Mirage', SHELL LIKE remote communal listening event (17 & 18 April 2020)
'Raw Red Redux' audio interpretation of 'A Theory of the Strange-Girl' by Yantan Ministry with voice by Fer Boyd (COUNTRY MUSIC, released 4 October 2019)
'Hellbox', Canal magazine #2 launch party, Baroque Vegetation, London (3 December 2019)
'Hellbox', Montez Press Radio and Cell Project Space, London, hosted by SALT. magazine (25 August 2019)
'Detouch' in 'Her Voice' curated by Eleni Ikoniadou, ICA, London (11 April 2019)
'Detouch' in 'Our Fuming Lips Make A New Mirage', SHELL LIKE listening event, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (22 November 2018)
'But With What Protein?', Orlando 03: Beyond the Body launch, The Horse Hospital, London (14 November 2018)
'But With What Protein?' in 'High On Time The Voice Box Heaved', SHELL LIKE listening event, Artsadmin, London (6 March 2018)
'A Theory for the Strange-Girl' distributed and spat out as high-tempo video at COUNTRY MUSIC: Blood-Filled Spit on an Ore-Rich Ground, Monarch, Berlin (17 August 2017)
'Viral Content' in 'Dark Matter Gushes From the Mouth Into The Open Air', SHELL LIKE listening event at Guest Projects, London (19 April 2017)
'Viral Content' created for and aired at Mark Fisher’s listening event on the eerie, Goldmsiths College, London (10 December 2013)

'Interjections on the future', BBC Radio 4, produced by Sara Rahman (13 February 2024)
'Canal Presents... Chaos Rehearsals, Réplica & Frot the World', Montez Press Radio (24 November 2022)
Liverpool Biennial x a-n Artist Talk with Alice Channer & SHELL LIKE (27 April 2021)
'Siesta Sound Session: Strange Nature' artist talk with Madeleine Stack, Royal Collage of Art, London (5 December 2019)
Panel discussion on the philosophical, political and aesthetic challenges of female-sounding voices as part of 'Her Voice', ICA, London (11 April 2019)
In conversation with Francesca Blomfield, Jerwood Space, London (13 June 2016)
'I Feel Queezy: Fer Boyd on Queeziness and Art Writing' at EKKM Theory Club, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn (3 September 2014)
In conversation with Gazelle Twin and Mark Fisher, Goldsmiths College, London (10 December 2013)

Queer Tongues writing workshop, Wayword Festival, University of Aberdeen (21 September 2023)
'Time, Temporality and Timing: reproduction and poetry through the lens of Sappho (1974-1981)', Women’s Art Library, Glasgow (13 December 2022)
'Tongues! A Riot! A Mayhem! A Rampage! An Ecstasy!', Eastside Projects, Birmingham (30 November 2022)
Doctoral Experimental Writing Intensive Course, Department of Art, Aalto University (2-6 February 2021)
Doctoral Creative Writing Workshop, Department of Art, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (31 August - 5 September 2020)
Workshop on writing and sculpture in collaboration with Rachel Pimm, for YSI Sculpture Network 2020 (12 August 2020)
Experimental writing workshop at Open Doors LGBTIQAP+ Sistergirl & Brotherboy Youth Service, Brisbane, Australia, part of 'Death Drive' (14 February 2020)
Workshop on writing in times of crisis, Outer Space, Brisbane, Australia, part of 'Death Drive' (2 February 2020)
'Open the Source' experimental writing workbook published online by Yorkshire Sculpture International and Corridor8 (2019)
Mentor for Corridor8 writing residency (May-July 2019)
Workshop on writing as a form of sculpture, The University of Leeds, part of Yorkshire Sculpture International (6 March 2019)
Write Club workshop on 'streaming' and 'channelling' as body methods for writing combining technological and mystical approaches, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (22 November 2018)

Co-editor of Canal with Madeleine Stack (2022-present).

Co-organiser and founder of SHELL LIKE with Amy Lay-Pettifer, encompassing deep listening events, new commissions in sound, exhibitions, collaborative writing & sound works (2017-2021). SHELL LIKE worked with artists and writers including Penny Goring, Etel Adnan, Leyla Pillai, Tai Shani, Larry Achiampong, Gray Wielebinski, Hannah Regel, Ain Bailey, Caroline bergvall, Octavia Bright, Evan ifekoya, Jade Montserrat, Heather Phillipson, Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Diana Policarpo, Nisha Ramayya, Samira Saidi, Grace Schwindt and Matilda Tjäder, and organisations including Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Well Projects, Margate; and LUX Moving Image, Artsadmin, Artnight, and Raven Row, lON