I received three books through the post on one day recently, each containing a flash story of mine. Thanks to the editors at the Bath Flash Award, the UK Flash Fiction Festival and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine for including my work. Also very happy to see flash pieces started in my Flash Fiction Festival [...]
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New story online at Short Fiction Journal
Thanks to Short Fiction Journal for making my story 'A Punch To The Heart' available to read online via the SFJ website, alongside some pretty funky artwork by Rachel Brown-Duthie. The story was a prize winner in 2017's Short Fiction Journal contest. Short Fiction Journal has published many renowned writers over past few years including Alison [...]
The Lonely Spin of Planets – new flash
I've got a few story and flash fiction announcements, but I'll keep most of those under wraps for a bit longer. In the meantime, you can read a flash story of mine just published over at the online literary magazine Fictive Dream, using the following link: The Conservation of Angular Momentum (Fictive Dream, October 2017) [...]
The other end of the telescope – a dozen ways to guarantee rejection
Last year I was invited by Shaun Levin, the creative force behind Writing Maps (www.writingmaps.com) to become co-Editor of The A3 Review, a biannual arts magazine that unfolds like a map. It publishes micro-fiction, poetry, artwork and creative non-fiction via themed monthly contests and has variously been described (by reviewers and contributors) as ‘cool’, ‘brilliant’ [...]
Flash, flash, flash!
So June turned out to be a busy month... Firstly I found out my flash story The Way We Lie was chosen for Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour, the National Flash Fiction Day anthology for 2017. It's a great collection of short fiction with some genuinely renowned names among the contributors, including Etgar Keret, Robert [...]
Quick & Dirty: An Evening of Flash Fiction
Join me and five other authors for another instalment of the increasingly popular live flash fiction events in Bath at the St James Wine Vaults on Friday May 26. On the bill this time around are Meg Pokrass, KM Elkes (me!), plus new faces to the reading series Joanna Campbell, John Holland and Tracy Fells. Jude [...]
An Evening Of Short Fiction
So, this should be fun. I've been asked to be the main guest speaker at Novel Nights on June 19th at the Square Club, 15 Berkeley Square, Clifton, Bristol. Novel Nights is a regular live literary event showcasing and supporting excellent writing and authors at all stages of their career. I will be talking about how writing and [...]
Join me at the UK’s first ever Flash Fiction Festival
The UK’s first ever literary festival dedicated to Flash Fiction takes place in Bath on June 24-25. If you are interested in writing - regardless of whether you have written flash before - then I suggest you check it out. The Bath Flash Fiction Festival will feature readings, talks and workshops by a number of [...]
My one and only sex robot story – now in Synaethesia Magazine!
My short story (or is it a flash fiction?) The Relationship Algorithms has been published courtesy of Synaesthesia Magazine. This is my first, and possibly only, Companion Sex Robot story. It was partly inspired by a visit to Japan last year when I learned that despite being a heavily populated country, loneliness and a lack of companionship [...]
Flash fiction, Bath and utter filth
I was part of a fun evening of flash fiction readings in Bath last week. It was a packed house, an excellent atmosphere and brought home to me how good this type of fiction is for reading events. Literary festival organisers should take note - flash works! The event was organised by Jude Higgins, who [...]
