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Luca Zani

He/Him | essayist, theatre / film critic | Reading, United Kingdom

Luca Zani writes and edits the magazine Critick. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hooghly Review, The Slash, Querencia Press, Megacity Review, and more. He has written theatre and film reviews for Optic Nerve and worked with Exeunt on press-night coverage. Luca writes a regular column for The Pett Review, where he is a named contributor. His short story collection, Songs of Speech, is available worldwide. He is based in Reading, UK. critick.substack.com for more.

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Books

Selected work

Cover of The Boar

Deborah Levy’s Things I Don’t Want To Know: On teleological disobedience

The Boar, 2026

NonfictionReview
Cover of Scrummy Bumpkin

Little League Interview #6: Luca Zani

Scrummy Bumpkin, 2026

NonfictionInterview
Cover of JustSomeMustard

At Table 28 with Luca Zani

JustSomeMustard, 2026

NonfictionInterview
Cover of The Memorious

Johnny Plebus

Soon

The Memorious

FictionFlash
Cover of Inframince Journal

Incapabilities

Soon

Inframince Journal

PoetryGeneral
Cover of AVM

I Know Not When

AVM, 2026

NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
Cover of The Pett Review

The Environmentalists of Post-Truth: A review of Iñárritu’s ‘Digger’ (2026).

The Pett Review, 2026

NonfictionEssayReview
Cover of The Pett Review

Theatre Review: The Comedy About Spies

The Pett Review, 2026

NonfictionReview
Cover of Down in the Dirt

Concrete Kingdoms

Down in the Dirt, 2026

Nonfiction
Cover of The Hooghly Review

Perfume Adverts

The Hooghly Review, 2026

Nonfiction
Cover of The Megacity Review

Eschatology

The Megacity Review, 2026

Fiction
Cover of Down in the Dirt

She Swam

Down in the Dirt, 2026

Fiction
Cover of Academy of the Heart and Mind

I’m lying down but I can’t sleep.

Academy of the Heart and Mind, 2026

Fiction
Cover of Clockwise Cat

Possessions

Soon

Clockwise Cat

Fiction
Cover of Down in the Dirt

Bus Stop

Down in the Dirt, 2026

Fiction
Cover of Slash Magazine (Horror)

Offline Stardom

Slash Magazine (Horror), 2026

Fiction
Cover of The Boar

Multimedia in Literature

The Boar, 2026

NonfictionEssayAcademic Writing

Projects

Literary Magazine · 2026-present

Critick Magazine

Critick is a mixture of creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry, and cultural reviews, concerned with charting the rise and fall of creative culture.

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