I’m teaching a short story workshop for Portsmouth BookFest on 1st March. First-timers and experienced writers alike are welcome. Tickets are only £5.50, available here.

What happens when you try to write a story using only one vowel? One possible answer is my experimental story ‘Fast Jazz‘, now up on the site.

I love a good quote – the pithy, the ponderable, the downright mad. Under the Resources menu I’ve added a page to give a random writing quote.

I’ve been shortlisted for the Dorset Fiction Award. You can read the story here.

The culmination of five years of the environmental writing project Pens of the Earth, our book, Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is published on 21st October 2024. You can read all about it here.

I’ve updated the look of the site to make it more streamlined and pleasant to read.