WRITING IN 2016
I wrote some stuff that was published this year.
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Read MoreI read some books in 2016. A number of them were very good, and as it's Christmas a list is required. Here is that list.
Read MoreTwo Joel Lane books blew me away this year
Read MoreThis is an edited short talk I gave to the MFA class at Kingston University in November 2017.
Read MoreI'm interviewed by Dan Carpenter on the latest episode of The Paperchain Podcast, talking Chuck Tingle, Hookland, An Unreliable Guide to London and why characters in short-fiction drink whisky rather than gin and tonic.
Read MoreI have a new story out as part of the Galley Beggar Singles series. It's called 'We are Nothing but Reeds'. It's a story of seals and selkies, failing relationships in London, C.L. Nolan, sea giants and the redemptive power of the coast.
Read MoreGhosts of the shore
Read MoreIt was the magwitching hour
Sun like soft gold on the tips of the reeds
– ‘The Marsh Harrier’, from Tales of the Hollow Shore, ed. Anon
Read MoreIn Tottenham Cemetery, 11/09/16
Read More'That final tumble. The impact of bone on earth. What happens to the self on impact?'
Happy to say that I have new story in the inaugural issue of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel – it's called 'Our Own Archipelago', based off of some memorable time spent in Finland in 2014.
Read it here:
It's been a mad few weeks...
Read MoreLovely to see Ambit, who I worked for as a fiction editor until recently, get such a positive mention in the new Best British Short Stories magazine.
Read MoreI haven't updated the website in a while due to various reasons of moving, holidays and other general life changes.
However there have been a few new things worth talking about.
Read MoreI was chairing the first of the two events celebrating the upcoming release of An Unreliable guide to London, our anthology of untrustworthy, useless and plain made-up London writing from lesser known places and perspectives – the perfect way to explore this most tricky, wonderful, perplexing and frustrating city I myself living in.
Read MoreI realised that everywhere, however small or boring you may first think it, is brimming with narrative, saturated in history, soaked in folklore and legend. It’s worth exploring and it’s worth writing about. You’ll be surprised what you can find.
Read MoreJumble up memory, Hastings, Jack-in-the-Green, May 1/2, 2016
Read MoreApril has proved to be a busy month...
Read More'They aren't my stories.'
'If they're the city's, that's better still isn't it? It made you and they're part of it just like you.'
We climb to the top of the gatehouse, photograph the pillars of twisted brick and look out over this part of England.
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