About a year ago I read Erlend Loe’s novel, Naïve. Super. It was one of those books that came at the perfect moment in my life; a wonderfully poetic, ...
Pushing myself to try new things is one of the most important exercises as a writer. For me it is like skateboarding, I spent ages learning how to ollie and ...
This post has taken a little while to write because it has taken me a while to decide if I should write it at all. I wanted to write about ...
The last couple of weeks have all been about writing and publishing etc, but there is something that is so at the core of writing that I ...
Inevitably, every story acceptance is accompanied by multiple rejections; sometimes a story will be accepted first time, sometimes there will be a re-write request and sometimes the ...
Getting published
Towards the end of my time in Cambridge I got the email I’d been waiting and hoping for. The magazine I’d sent the moth story to ...
My time spent in Cambridge was a catalyst for more than just improving my writing, it was also an important time for my photography.
I have been taking ...
I was asked to look after a friend’s house for a couple of months. He lived in Cambridge, a city I had never been to, and he had a garden ...
The first stories I tried to write and the book that started it all: continuing the brief history that foretells the work I am currently writing.
One night I couldn’t sleep, ...
I’ve written a few blogs before in recent years on different topics and the thing I’ve always found difficult is starting it off. Do I do the whole, ‘Hello reader, ...
