Sophia has published chapters in the edited collections Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Doris Lessing and the Forming of History (Edinburgh University Press 2016). She is co-editor with Mark Byron of Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge's The Blue Spill: A Manuscript Critical Edition (Bloomsbury 2019).
Books
Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's The Blue SpillBloomsburyBOOKJanuary 2019
Doris Lessing and the Forming of HistoryEdinburgh University PressBOOKFebruary 2016
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After FiftyPalgrave MacmillanBOOKMay 2015
Essays
Two Lives: Alfred and Emily by Doris LessingSydney Review of BooksESSAYOctober 2017
Doris Lessing was a radical, in the truest senseThe ConversationESSAYNovember 2013
And, and, andSydney Review of BooksESSAYOctober 2013
Reviews
Coming Unstuck: Hold Your Fire by Chloe WilsonSydney Review of BooksREVIEWAugust 2021
Reading the Cues: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKaySydney Review of BooksREVIEWJanuary 2021
The Ghost Creature: The Weekend by Charlotte WoodSydney Review of BooksREVIEWOctober 2019
Found by TroubleSydney Review of BooksREVIEWOctober 2018
Desert TimeSydney Review of BooksREVIEWSeptember 2018
Excavating the Past: Ceridwen Dovey’s Garden of the FugitivesSydney Review of BooksREVIEWMay 2018
In the Breech: Sofie Laguna’s The ChokeSydney Review of BooksREVIEWOctober 2017
The Bleeding Edge: new short fictionSydney Review of BooksREVIEWOctober 2016
Something Beyond The Natural: Hold by Kirsten TranterSydney Review of BooksREVIEWJuly 2016
The Convict's Daughter by Kiera LindseyAustralian Book ReviewREVIEWJune 2016
What To Leave OutSydney Review of BooksREVIEWFebruary 2016
Restless FictionsSydney Review of BooksREVIEWSeptember 2015
Formed and TestedSydney Review of BooksREVIEWMay 2015
Lila by Marilynne RobinsonAustralian Book ReviewREVIEWDecember 2014
Between fiction and memory by Janet FrameAustralian Book ReviewREVIEWJune 2014
Beat Poet Kool-Aid: An Elegant Young Man by Luke CarmanSydney Review of BooksREVIEWMarch 2014
Sophia Barnes reviews Too Afraid to Cry by Ali Cobby EckermannMascara Literary ReviewREVIEWNovember 2013
Sophia Barnes reviews Joyful Strains Ed Kent MacCarter and Alison LemerMascara Literary ReviewREVIEWJune 2013