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PhDone

Dr Dave Back in September 2016 I wrote a little post on here about how I was starting up a PhD. According to that post, I'd been thinking...

Slush Pile Limbo

A pandemic is a highly weird time to be doing anything significant, as we all well know, because we're smack in the middle of a strange...

The Yawning of the Present

I feel like every blog post I put up on here begins with me saying we are living in strange times, and that such times call for strange...

On the Way to the Forum

Coming up this Saturday, Nov 23rd, myself and some uni pals are taking over the gorgeous Engine House at The International Anthony...

Camping Out with the Rural Eerie

There’s an event coming up in Manchester which I’m aiming to go to called ‘Rural Eerie: Exploring the Strange Countryside’ (Oct 19th, The...

In the Zone: Part 2

I have emerged from my self-imposed writing zone having slaughtered various darlings. I entombed myself within an attic space, surrounded...

In the Zone: Part 1

In an unnerving turn of events, I’ve been encountering a lot of zones recently. You know the ones: fuzzy boundaries, decayed ‘keep out’...

Submitting to Gut Instinct

Tweeted last week: It’s the sort of tweet I see quite often and its always heartening. Rejections are, of course, part and parcel of...

Those are some Big Words, mate

I'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)sane

This 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...