Britton Buttrill is a New England based writer, artist, and intellectual from the American South.

Though Britton works across multiple genres and mediums, his creative work is rooted in the Southern Gothic Tradition, evoking the Grotesque and the Beautiful. 

​Britton's academic interests include the Philosophy of God, Aesthetic Theology, Catholic Mysticism, the Racialization of Intimacy, and the Theology of Incarnation, to address postmodernism's inability to grasp the Divine.

Britton 's writing appears in The TONIC Journal, Heresy Press, Sam Fifty Four Literary, New York Public Library Magazine, The NY Times, and on Substack, Art en Famille. Britton 's stage plays have been presented Off-off Broadway. 

Britton Buttrill holds an MFA in Playwriting, an MA in English, and is pursuing graduate studies in Catholic Theology. ​Originally from the rural South, Britton has lived in France, Senegal, and New York City. He resides in Providence with his wife and son, where he writes, paints, boxes, and plays with his toddler. 
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ATONEMENT; oil pastel & acrylic on canvas
​by Britton Buttrill
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PORTFOLIO

NOVELS

HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN GEORGIA

| Horror 
| ​642 pgs.
An epic work of Southern Gothic horror that follows a single Dad’s fight to protect his infant son from a group of Satanists, concealed within a Protestant Megachurch. 

After his wife dies in childbirth, Callum Wynder and his baby boy move from Manhattan to Callum’s decaying hometown in rural Georgia. Patmos; where Antebellum bloodshed fertilizes the soil. Aided by a rebellious GBI agent, a disgraced Priest, and a parish of undocumented-immigrant Catholics, Callum races to uncover the malevolence behind a string of child murders. 
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 He comes face to face with the demonic forces behind the rise of a hip Evangelical Pastor, whose Megachurch hides the very demons haunting Callum’s own family history, and they want his baby for their own. In order to save his son, Callum must make an impossible choice… and the ultimate sacrifice.

FOR THIS IS SACRED GROUND 

| Romance
| 395 pgs.
Told as a prayer to his unborn son, this Southern Gothic, Historical Romance follows John Byron, a poor White son of a marble miner, who falls in love with Sistine Young, a Black preacher's daughter, amidst the racial violence of 1950s Georgia.​

​This sweeping love story portrays a man's fight against the Powers & Principalities upholding hatred, in an effort to claim his family's right to the American dream.

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FICTION & POETRY

PROSE
For This is Sacred Ground: A Novel (Ch 2) | The TONIC Journal, 2025

For This is Sacred Ground: A Novel (ch 1) | The TONIC Journal, 2024
 The TONIC Journal 

"Grandpaw was the Second Son of God" | Sam Fifty Four Literary
 Sam Fifty Four Literary​

"For the Escape Fire Couple..." | NYPL Magazine
Art en Famille | Substack

"How Prep School Pedagogy Strangles Literature" | Heresy Press

​"This Brave New World"​  | The New York Times

PLAYS

PRIZE FIGHT

Harlem, 2020. Matt, a public-school English teacher on the road to marriage, takes boxing lessons from Amir, an ex-champion fighting for custody of his daughter, during the height of the racial justice protests. A movement play staged in twelve rounds, showing two men facing the demands of fatherhood, marriage,  and pregnancy loss. 

​Developed: 
​Dramatist Guild Writer's Group,  2023-24​

THE WEIGH-IN

A Southern-gothic tragedy about two high school wrestlers who grapple with family, friendship, sexuality, and the ghosts of the past, as they vie to become Georgia state champions. 

​​Awards:
The Nick Darke Award (finalist, 2017)
Staged:
DUNE Arts Foundation
Staged Reading (Indiana, 2020)
ART / NY                                                
Staged Reading (New York, 2017)​
Developed:
The New School for Drama, 2014-15; Mentor: Nicole Burdette.

SCRATCHING

After he washes out of the New York Arts scene, a painter returns to his Georgia backwater to work  as an unlicensed tattoo artist. Life with his girlfriend, a truck-stop exotic-dancer, is blown apart when his ex-flame blows into town, along with his estranged brother and a bag of pure MDMA.

​Produced:​
Fringe NYC,                                 
Production (New York, 2016)
Developed:
The Flea Theatre                                               
Staged-Reading (New York, 2015)
HERE Arts                                                      
Staged Reading (New York, 2014)

TEMPORAL

During the height of the early-2000s Atlanta rock scene, two teenage epileptics find a thread of connection by inducing seizures together.
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Produced:
The New School
Production, MFA Thesis (New York, 2015)

Developed:                           
The New School                            
Mentor: Jill Rachel Morris

JUGGALICIOUS

Told through the surreal mythology of the Insane Clown Posse, a family of "Juggalos" journey to The Gathering, where they enter the heart of the Dark Carnival to save their dying grandmother.
Produced:
 NYC Fringe Festival                       
Production, (New York, 2014)                   
Developed:
Naked Angels                               
 Tuesdays @9 (New York, 2014)
 The New School                            
 Mentor: Jon Robin Baitz

One=Act Plays

"My Rabbit, Regan" | ESPA Primary Stages, 2016

"Awake & Love" | Skeleton Rep / Access Theatre, 2015

​"Saint Marteen Series" | Midtown International Theatre Festival, 2014

"Iris" ​| Midtown International Theatre Festival, 2014

AWARDS

New York City Teaching Fellowship in English, General Education | NYC Dept. of Education | 2018
Ucross Foundation Residency, alternate finalist | Ucross Foundation | 2018
The Nicke Darke Award, finalist | Falmouth University, UK | 2017
Tennessee Williams Scholar | The Sewanee Writer's Conference | 2016

Work Experience

​Leman Manhattan Preparatory School
New York, NY
Upper School Teacher, 2023-2024
Private Instructor
France, Senegal,
Humanities Tutor, 2021-2023

​NYC Department of Education
A. Philip Randolph High School
Harlem, NYC
New York City Teaching Fellow
English Teacher, 2018-2021

Lindamood -Bell Learning Processes
Literacy Instructor, 2017-2018

Big Apple Tutoring
New York, NY
Humanities Tutor, 2015-2017
Subjects:
IB English| Research Writing | Freshman Composition | 7th grade English | History of NYC
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Creative Writing | English | History | College Admissions | Science Writing | Executive Functioning
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English Language Arts
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Clinical Literacy
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K-12 Humanities | College Admissions | Executive Functioning
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