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June 16, 2016
My Glass is Runn – new short story collection LAUNCH DATE
I’m please to announce that my new single author short story collection My Glass is Runn will launch on 13th August 2016. It’ll be available in print and ebook format from Lulu, where you can alreadybuy my other books. My Glass is Runn will feature 14 of my short stories that have never been available in a single volume before now.
I’ll announce the table of contents very soon!
January 14, 2016
The Pushcart Prize nomination and Firewords
Little bit late telling you all this, but last December I was absolutely thrilled by the news that the awesome folk at Firewords Quarterly were lovely enough to nominate my story ‘Things the Sea Brings Us’ for The Pushcart Prize. This is a prize that celebrates the word of small presses and indie magazines throughout the year. I didn’t place (you can see the very stiff competition here!) but it was an absolute honour and very affirming to be nominated.
October 28, 2015
Storybout – Chester Writers at the Chester Literature Festival
Last week saw the final week of the Chester Literature Festival 2015 and I was lucky enough to be part of it. Chester Writers, now chaired by Suzanne Iuppa (who is as talented at event organisation as she is at prose and poetry) staged an event titled Storybout as part of the festival fringe. This saw several authors reading out work over several varied and interesting locations.
The first of these locations was very special indeed – on Thursday 22 August, me and my musician friend Nala Rollo...
October 8, 2015
Extreme storytelling in a half-built theatre: coming soon to Chester!
I’m delighted to announce that through Chester Writers and Chester Fringe, as part of Chester Literature Festival, I will be reading and Nala Rollo will be performing some acoustic songs inside the RE:NEW arts centre in Chester at 1pm on Thursday 22nd October.
Due to it still being a construction site (we’ll be the very first to perform there, how exciting is that?) places will be limited and hard hats will have to be worn, so please let me or Nala know asap if you’d like to come and listen t...
September 16, 2015
Celestial Bodies – shiny beautiful things and flash fiction
Well, it’s been a while, but I’ve been busy – not least with my latest collaboration with the ever-awesome Earl Foolish who invited me back once again to write some flash fictions to accompany their latest jewellery collection for Autumn/Winter 2015.
They’ve smashed it once more, with ‘Celestial Bodies’ – the collection theme revolving around bones and stars. I think this was the most inspiring collection to write about to date for me, here’s an example of the flash I wrote:
We are made of th...
May 21, 2015
Voices from the Reading Room – Radio broadcast
Remember when I read ‘The Audsley Chimera’ at the first Voices from the Reading Room at Gladstone’s Library? Well, if you missed the live event you can now listen to the whole evening broadcast this Saturday 23rd May 10am -11am and then repeated 5pm – 6 pm on Vintage Radio.
The programme is introduced by Suzanne Iuppa and features three short stories from me, Kemal Houghton and Luned DeSimon and one performance poem from Sophie McKeand.
I’m told you can listen on the radio but I’m not sure of...
May 15, 2015
Free copies of Matchbook – how to get your hands on one
If you follow my social media you may have read by now about Matchbook, the A7 zine of illustrated six word stories that I recently created. Since I holed up in my attic and spent the day making this thing a reality, I’ve been hand-making a load of these little books to give away for free. Each one is an A4 photocopied sheet that’s then folded, stapled, block printed inred ink witha custom made rubber stamp and finally any folded page edges are razored. It’s been time-consuming, but I’ve made...
May 1, 2015
Flip the mainstream – underground 5ever!
So, my terrible blog titles are probably one of the things that marketers would probably point out as holding me back from writing success, but you know what – I don’t care! Here are some fantastic things that this indie writer is digging this week:
I was honoured to be the first reader at the first ever Voices from the Reading Room, which took place last Monday in the gorgeous surroundings of Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden. It was a lovely, intimate little secret event featuring me, amazingl...April 15, 2015
Voices from the Reading Room – surprise fiction in cult locations, THIS MONTH
So, it’s been a while, but I have a lot to update on.
The first (and very exciting) thing is that I’m lucky enough to be reading at a Voices from the Reading Room event later this month on Monday 27 April.
These events will feature a series of writers reading their work in cult locations – this one being the gorgeous Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden – which will be recorded for radio broadcast. They’re organised and hosted by mega-talented local poet Suzanne Iuppa, who has just taken over chai...
February 11, 2015
Book review: New Ghost Stories II from The Fiction Desk
Upon sitting down to write this review I realised that it must look like from this blog that I only review books I’m in, so before I start – you can read my review for the first Fiction Desk ghost story anthology over here at Goodreads!
Now, without further ado: New Ghost Stories II is the eighth short story anthology from The Fiction Desk, a series which fast became my favourite (and not just because I’m in a few of them, including my story Twice a Day With Water in this volume).
This is anoth...
