Peter Shukie
Writer, reviewer and filmmaker.
Recent: Winner of Creative Match 2025 — a collaborative writing project selected by Manic World Magazine
My work explores working class culture, outsider art and the creative lives that unfold beyond official cultural spaces. I write fiction, essays and criticism, and collaborate on experimental film and sound projects. Recent writing appears in publications including Northern Soul, alongside essays, fiction and collaborative film projects.
Current work includes the novel Flyover Gallery, alongside essays and reviews on art, music, theatre and film.
My work includes essays, reviews, fiction and experimental film. Much of it explores the creative life that develops outside official cultural spaces.
Latest Writing
Creative Match 2025 — Collaborative Letters Across Time
This work is part of the Creative Match 2025, an initiative by Manic World Magazine pairing writers in collaborative exchange. What follows is part of an ongoing epistolary project between myself and Canadian writer, Jess Logan — letters written across time, distance, and shared ground. Chapter I July 19th 1970. The sign says “The […]
The Hacienda Must be Grown
Dragging the canvas to the flyover when it was just plain and grey and flimsy was not the kind of drag that meant channels of mud. It never once touched the ground, it was always at least waist height and it blew around a bit and acted as a sail. The sense of being dragged was inside the body, of the walk harder usual because of this giant, empty thing.
Borrowed voices, open doors: Manchester Film Festival 2026
Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California Schemin’ arrives at the end of 11 days of screenings, conversations, applause and immersion. In its story of borrowed voices and improvised […]
Gods, grapples and guffaws: Mythos Ragnarök at the Floral Pavilion
The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, families drifting, a slight wear that never tips into decline because there is too much life moving through it. It feels right […]