Honoured to announce the launch of my new collection, Blurred Edges – twelve stories chosen from many, many more. Huge thanks to Renée @ballerinibooks for such a special opportunity.
ballerinibookpress.ch/blurre…
ALT The FIFA Prize for Literature
Following the success of their Peace Prize, FIFA establishes a literary prize judged by the footballers at the world cup.
(image of trophy)
All does not go well...
Players arrive at games exhausted by reading hundreds of novels and heatedly debating their merits long into the night.
(image of tired players on pitch reading)
The south American teams boycott the tournament when an official disparages Isabel Allende's use of magic realism.
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Seventeen plavers receive red cards after a discussion of radical honesty in the works of Karl Ove Knausgaard turns into a brawl.
(Image of players fighting)
However, all is forgiven as Joyce Carol Oates takes the thrilling final to extra time, before losing on penalties to Haruki Murukami.
(image of Haruki holding the trophy aloft)
The June episode of Sherry's Shorts on HHR.scot is here! Featuring Findhorn writer Gay Taaffe taking us along on her 2019 trek through some of the lesser travelled parts of India. Enjoy her adventure using the Listen Again link: mixcloud.com/invernesshr/she…
A quick heads up for fellow Gwen John obsessives. Particularly interesting to get a fine poet's take on her life. Still much to be understood, I feel.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xh2…
I have a small exhibition in Amiens, France at the Louis Aragon library from June 6th to August 29th. It consists of cartoons, prints and objects created in collaboration with Editions 2042
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ALT A photograph of a library containing large and small prints of cartoons by Tom Gauld.
Fictive Dream, unbelievably, turns ten, and it's a joy to be part of the celebrations! Going Central is the twin of Going Out Somewhere, previously published in Fictive Dream, effectively the same story but from the POV of the other protagonist. Or is it?
fictivedream.com/2026/06/07/…
Honoured to announce the launch of my new collection, Blurred Edges – twelve stories chosen from many, many more. Huge thanks to Renée @ballerinibooks for such a special opportunity.
ballerinibookpress.ch/blurre…
Incredibly honoured to have my interview featured in the latest issue (Issue 6.1) of the gorgeous @thestripesmag on the theme ‘Places’. A huge thank you to the wonderful editor, @abasiamaudom, and her amazing team!
stripesliterarymagazine.weeb…
Apologies to anyone who has been waiting to receive my new collection, Blurred Edges @ballerinibooks. There have been some technical hurdles to overcome, but publication is now scheduled for 5th June, and in the meantime books will be sent out. Thanks for your patience.
Nicholas Royle and I will be running a creative writing workshop @Lumb_Bank (Arvon, Lumb Bank) for a week from 28th September, 2026. Jump Start Your Fiction with us. Details here: arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
Nicholas Royle and I will be running a creative writing workshop @Lumb_Bank (Arvon, Lumb Bank) for a week from 28th September, 2026. Jump Start Your Fiction with us. Details here: arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
As requested by @MatthewMCSmith for today’s @TopTweetTuesday challenge, a poem in your own voice and style lightly influenced by one of three named poets.
Unsurprisingly mine is a love poem with an unresolved ending. (William Carlos Williams).