I am just utterly delighted to say that my latest paper, ‘The Burning Core: Using Heraclitus’ concept of an arche of fire to examine humanity’s connection with nature in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road‘ has been published in The Cormac McCarthy Journal Vol.18.2. You can access my article directly here, and the full issue here.

This publication means an extraordinary amount to me: The Road was one of those seminal works of literature I came across as a teenager and I’ve read it cover to cover countless times. The binding is going on my copy, and it’s a real joy to finally have been able to express so much about why I love this book.

Thanks in particular to Stacey Peebles the journal’s editor, and the two mysterious peer reviewers who agreed this piece should be published – you’ve all reflected so much of my passion for the novel back to me and made the publication process easy and joyous.

Happy reading everyone! x

Today, I’m curling up with The Fairlight Book Of Short Stories Vol.1, which has just been published. I’m so excited to that my short story ‘The Cloud Loom’ has been included in this collection!

This new anthology comes from fab indie publisher Fairlight Books, who have previously published my stories ‘The Cloud Loom’ and ‘The Locust Theorem’ online. They are a fantastic publisher doing really wonderful things, and I couldn’t be more delighted to have been selected for this anthology alongside so many amazing authors – thank you Fairlight Team!

The book is now available and you can pick up a copy here.

This news is a little publishing nerd moment for me: basically I love creative-critical writing. So, this piece is actually a two-part creative-critical piece – a story, and an essay, which have a symbiotic relationship.

In an awesome publishing collaboration, the essay half has been published in vol.31.2 of the journal LOGOS – while the story half has been published by the marvellous folks at Fairlight Books.

The whole piece is called ‘Cohesive Plurality: Exploring the relationship between resonance and the act of writing’.

‘Part 1: The Writer’s Internal Choir’ is accessible via an institutional login or subscription to the LOGOS journal, here.

And ‘Part 2: The Composer’ is free to read on the Fairlight Books website, right here.

Huge thanks to the editorial teams at LOGOS and Fairlight Books for first of all liking my work, and second of all liking this co-publication idea – it’s been really fun to work together!

Happy reading everyone x

I’m delighted to be running a Writing-Life Balance session for Byte the Book on Monday 13th July, 2-3pm.

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As anyone who writes short stories will know, getting a publication is hard – but getting a story re-published is even harder! That’s why I’m really thrilled that ‘The Cloud Loom’ has been selected for publication in The Fairlight Book of Short Stories: Volume 1!

This new anthology comes from fab indie publisher Fairlight Books, who have previously published my stories ‘The Cloud Loom’ and ‘The Locust Theorem’ online. They are a fantastic publisher doing really wonderful things, and I couldn’t be more delighted to have been selected for this anthology alongside so many amazing authors – thank you Fairlight Team!

Today is the cover reveal of the new book, so without further ado, here we go…

The book is due out on 1st October, and for more information you can read The Bookseller‘s article on it right here.

It’s heeeeere! Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is out now, edited by Alison Baverstock, Richard Bradford and Madelena Gonzalez, and published by Routledge – turn to page 237 for my paper on publishing and neoliberal economics.

This is my first ever proper academic publication and I’m so thrilled and happy – huge thanks to all the editors for finding my paper interesting enough to publish.

Happy reading publishing folks! X

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s some nice 2020 news from me: I’m thrilled (and not a little amazed!) to have been longlisted for this year’s The London Book Fair Trailblazer Awards. What a wonderful list of people to be a part of – feeling a lot of publishing love and gratitude right now! Thank you, thank you!!

To see the full longlist, visit the marvellous BookBrunch.

This is the second time I’ve been longlisted, and it’s a really lovely thing to feel so valued by an industry I have such affection for!

Posting today with some SUPER exciting news from my poetry world!

Just got my copy of the The British Haiku Society journal Blithe Spirit 29.4 in the post and discovered that I’m one of the Runners Up for the Museum of Haiku Literature Award! Totally over the moon, what a nice thing to happen!

Huge thanks to Gary Hotham for shortlisting me and congratulations to the winner Dennis Tomlinson too.

Big love to all you poetry readers out there… Xx

Really thrilled to be chairing an event with one of my all-time favourite heroes Bettany Hughes for this year’s Hostry Festival!

A TALE OF THREE CITIES: ISTANBUL
2pm, Saturday 26th October 2019
At The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral
Tickets £15 (£12 conc)
BOOK NOW: https://hostryfestival.org/
Or via the Norwich Theatre Royal Box Office on 01603 598676

This is going to be a real treat for history nerds and literary types alike, and I hope to see you all there!

Also big thanks to the event’s supporters University of East Anglia (UEA), Jarrold, Norwich High School GDST and TCD Media.

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all having wonderful summers (or winters in the southern hemisphere!)

I just got back from my own summer holidays, to find that the fabulous folks at Ash Tales have published my flash fiction story Suspirium Viridae on their site! You can read it for free, online, right now, RIGHT HERE!

This is a melancholy story all about teenagehood, pandemic, apocalypse, anxiety, depression and breathing deep… and best of all, it will only take you five minutes to read.

It means a lot to me as a story, and I’m so grateful to Ryan at Ash Tales for taking the time to read and publish it. Ash Tales is an awesome publication, and I thoroughly recommend checking out the other stories on their site as well as their beautifully narrated podcast series.

Big love to you all – and don’t forget to breathe deep! x

Had a fab time reading at Flashing Norwich yesterday evening. Huge thanks to Helen and Chris for organising and hosting and inviting me along to read – can’t wait for the next one!

If you didn’t manage to make it last night but you’d still like to listen to me reading something, it turns out there’s a video of me reading my flash fiction story ‘Not Every Train’ at the London launch of Arachne Press’ Story Cities Anthology – so if you have three minutes, you can watch that instead!

Had such a fun and lovely evening at the Story Cities Anthology launch last Thursday – a gorgeous venue at the University of Greenwich and huge thanks to Rosamund, Kam and Cherry for organising such a lovely evening. It was such a joy to read and meet so many lovely folk!

If you want to buy the anthology – and the stories in it are all incredible, I was totally transported reading it – you can pick up a copy on the Arachne Press website right here.

Happy reading! x

Whoop whoop! I am completely over-the-moon excited to have made the shortlist of the 2019 Event Magazine Speculative Writing Contest!

What an awesome list to be on, I’m so honoured and humbled and proud – a huge big thank you to judge Emily Pohl-Weary and all the editors at Event!

The story that was shortlisted is Passing Voices, about a woman seeking answers to her life’s problems from a backyard quantum physicist, it’s very close to my heart and I’m so thrilled that it’s been recognised like this.

Watch this space for the results, coming soon…!