FARRAN GOLDING — JOURNALIST BASED IN LEEDS AND MANCHESTER, UK

CORRESPONDENT, QUARTERSNACKS; ASSOCIATE EDITOR, CLOSER SKATEBOARDING; COPYBOY, SKATE BYLINES

+ GQ, BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, ROUGH TRADE BOOKS, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, VANS, NORTHERN MONK BREW CO. AND MORE

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Writing

Keys To The City — The Making of Palace’s ‘DETROIT 313’ with Lev Tanju • Quartersnacks

The story of Palace Skateboard’s seven-year-long love-letter to the Motor City, DETROIT 313.

New Futures and Distortions in Time — The Mechanics of Skate Magazine Covers • Quartersnacks

A deep dive behind the front page and into the editorial dynamics and creative decisions of skateboarding magazine publishing.

Three Years Ago, Alexis Sablone Skated in the Olympics. Next Up? Designing Team USA’s Uniforms • GQ Sports

A conversation with the trailblazing professional skateboarder, architect and designer about and the growth of the women’s global skate scene ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Video

CURRENAISSANCE: A Frank Chat with Curren Caples • Quartersnacks

Skateboarding is in a constant state of reinvention, especially in its professional class, where reinvention is part of the job. This biographic interview with Curren Caples traces his journey from child star to one of skateboarding’s most stylish and talented.

‘Utah, Get Me Two! — Andrew Allen’s Movie Matinee • Quartersnacks

A conversation with Andrew Allen about the link between movies and his skateboarding career, from recreating garments from GoodFellas, his love of cult ’80s and ’90s flicks, paying to homage to Michael Mann and David Lynch, and many more cinematic easter eggs

The Eleven O’Clock Number — Kate Bush with Geoff Campbell • Skate Bylines

“They’d get a record player and crank [“Wuthering Heights], dance about, get really theatrical and I remember that vividly.” Videographer Geoff Campbell discusses the storied use of Kate Bush’s music in skateboarding videos.

Podcasts and Audio

At the Social Skate Summit, the joy was the whole point (by Lee Dubin) • Skate Bylines

I produced and edited an audio dispatch on the Social Skateboarding Summit, a global gathering of people who believe in skateboarding as a vehicle for social good which convened at the University College London in summer 2026

Lower East Side Skatepark: The Civic Center of New York City Skateboarding • Skate Bylines

Exploring parks and municipal space in New York City through the lens of skateboarding in conversation with Ian Browning, author of the article ‘Civic Center: A Profile of the Lower East Side Skatepark at Ten Years’

‘Ranked & Filed’ — A Simple Magic and Skate Bylines Experimental Co-Production

Cole Nowicki’s Simple Magic is a weekly newsletter about “skateboarding, the internet and other forms of escape.” Together, we produce ‘Ranked & Filed’ which presents the headline story from Simple Magic in audio and video form.

Publications

Vans: ‘AVE, photo: O’Meally’

A publication celebrating the career of professional skateboarder Anthony Van Engelen through the lens of photographer Mike O’Meally, recounting their time together during the making of Alien Workshop’s Mind Field.

aAh! Magazine: The REAL Issue

The spring 2026 edition of Manchester Metropolitan University’s magazine of the faculty of arts and humanities.

Division 24: ‘Now and Then’

Division 24 Skate Store in Wakefield, West Yorkshire reached its 20th anniversary in 2025. To mark the occasion, I worked with Ben Powell to create a publication chronicling the story Division 24 and history of skateboarding in the Wakefield area.

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