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Reputation that makes
everything else easier.

A media arm built around the intersection of governance, identity, and institutional life. The podcast is coming. The essays are already here. Wren — the literary imprint — is where the poetry lives.

Wren — literary imprint of forthestate.ca

Wren.

The literary imprint. Where the poetry lives that the consulting work can only gesture toward. Named for what persists — small, particular, undeterred. Wren is the alias. The work is real.

Collection I

the body.

A collection of poems about what bodies carry — inside institutions, inside grief, inside the particular weight of trying to remain whole in systems that prefer you partial.

Available
Collection II

smaller.

The second collection. Quieter than the first. About what happens after — after the institution, after the grief, after you have said what needed to be said. The space that remains.

Available
The media arm

Coming to The Press.

The Podcast

Transistor.fm · Long-form

Conversations at the intersection of governance, identity, and institutional life — with the people doing the actual work inside the systems that most need changing. No panels, no hot takes, no performance.

Launching — Month 3

Video essays

YouTube · Short and long form

Written arguments made visual. The kind of thinking that earns its length because every minute is doing something. Governance, reconciliation, and the gap between institutional language and lived experience.

Launching — Month 3

Essays & long-form

Published · Bylined

Writing that appears under a real name, in real publications, about real things. Opinion, analysis, and the particular view from inside the machine. The record is the point.

Active
Writing commissions — Wren

The words worth
commissioning.

Wren accepts a limited number of writing commissions each year — for organizations, publications, and individuals who need language that does something real.

Keynote and address writing for institutional events
Essays and long-form pieces for publications
Poetry commissions for commemorations, dedications, and significant occasions
Forewords, introductions, and editorial contributions
Institutional narrative and language development
Commission an enquiry →
"Named for what persists — small, particular, undeterred."

Wren — literary imprint of forthestate.ca