Submitting to Gut InstinctTweeted last week: It’s the sort of tweet I see quite often and its always heartening. Rejections are, of course, part and parcel of...
Knee-Deep in Novel Drafts: Roots and RhizomesI’ve been telling people who’ve been asking that I’ve just finished the second draft of the novel that I’m working on for my PhD. Truth...
What is Happening: A StoryI was in my house and my hands dropped a ball I was holding and it fell to the floor. Instead of picking it up, I tabled a Vote of No...
The Vegan Sausage Roll: A StoryI went to Greggs to buy a vegan sausage roll. I waited in the queue, my £1 coin clutched in my fingers like I’d won it somewhere, or...
One Year of Cataloguing: The Final StatsPictured Above: The Zelda Calendar where I documented my cultural intake We’ve come careering to the end of what feels like one of the...
Those are some Big Words, mateI've only gone and started up another spoken word night. Hell, yes, but of course. My famous friend Ali shuffled up to me a few months...
Hard or Easy? Exploring Autistic Influence at (In)saneThis coming Sunday (14th Oct) sees the debut of a new piece of music/writing fusion written and composed by me and brother Rick. It's a...
Flocking to the CreekFiction-wise, I have a few new incomings on the horizon. This is particularly nice as I've had quite the drumming of rejections recently,...
The Intake: Mid-Year StatsAt the start of this year, dizzy from gorging end-of-year ‘best of’ lists and trying frantically to remember everything I saw/read/played...
Taking Stock: July 2018It's been a busy old first half of the year, so I thought it worth pausing to collage together some of the various notable bits and...