All you need to know about my Comma Press workshop series in July 2023 Tremendously exciting news to share. Come July, when we'd all...

It was Lancashire Day on the 27th November and this year it was marked by the release of Lancashire Stories, an anthology of original...

On the last night of my first trip to fair Estonia, I find myself at a Poetry Slam. After a quick introduction to the night’s hosts, I’m...

Tartu has opened itself to me. It is a mosaic of proud buildings, old and new, small and large, sturdy and wonky. It is a zonal city...

The brief asks me to 'Bring Your Own Utopia'. A big ask in such a time of turmoils, but there's nothing quite like a pandemic, a...

Rather fantastic news to share today. I've been selected via an open call to be the Tartu-Manchester UNESCO City of Literature...

On the Edge of the Hill... My lovely little book of weird short stories about animals has just claimed its biggest achievement: a spot on...

I'm utterly delighted to say that Fauna has made it to the shortlist for the 2022 Saboteur Awards in the Best Short Story Collection...

In and Out of Habits I've been a bit quiet on here recently as I've been getting my head down, writing some new stuff, plotting some new...

An Uncertain Year At the top of 2021 I was facing one of my most uncertain but also most exciting years of recent times. My PhD was...