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My 10 Favourite Autism Books

. So: the PhD. How’s it going? It’s still going, chugging along in fits and starts, sometimes wailing through dark tunnels, sometimes...

Knee-Deep in Novel Drafts: Roots and Rhizomes

I’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...

Flocking to the Creek

Fiction-wise, I have a few new incomings on the horizon. This is particularly nice as I've had quite the drumming of rejections recently,...

Writing Animals: Pigskin

For a long while I tried to keep my gastronomical inclinations out of my animal stories after deeming meat-eating too obvious a target...

Dalliances and Happenings

What a tick-tock, wheely-whizzing, turnabout summer we’re having; it’s equal parts all over the place and nowhere at all. But things are...

Writing Animals: Shooting an Elephant

It is with rather astonished and delirious delight that I can say these words: the current issue of Ambit Magazine (no. 224) features one...

Spiderseed on the Saboteur Award Shortlist

Extremely delighted to say that Spiderseed has been shortlisted in the Best Short Story Collection category at the Saboteur Awards. Huge...

True Story: The Fourteen Stations of Blasphemy

Back in the heady days of 1997, my drama teacher Dad ran foul of the local churchgoers of Preston after he decided to stage a theatre...

The Costs of Writing: Literary Magazines

The latest issue of The Alarmist magazine opens with a lengthy and rather gloomy introduction from editors Gary and Mansour titled...

Writing Animals: Hutched

It is with delight that I can say my rabbit story ‘Hutched’ has been republished in issue two of Foxhole Magazine along with two...