Gatehouse Press publish the beautiful quarterly print journal, Lighthouse (check out their font, a digitisation of a vintage typeface –...

The lovely humans and other exotic creature creatives at Nothing In The Rule Book asked me for an interview. Here it...

A few months ago I got an email that made me cry (in a good way). It was from the award-winning Vietnamese poet, translator and author...

If you love short stories/flash fiction and live near Norwich, UK, we’re holding a book launch for this outstanding collection on...

I’m quite new to public readings, so it may be that I’m just not familiar with how things generally go. But I’m willing to bet,...

Lovely news this week that my story, Reunion – inspired by a reunion with my best friend from school a few months back in which we...

I was off social media for most of Monday (a situation that usually makes friends panic that I might have died) and so it wasn’t until...

Thrilled to have my downbeat micro flash, Holy Night, chosen by Open Pen London litmag to be the Christmas Eve story in their Twelve Days...

Edmonton airport travellers can read free short stories while waiting for flight A few months ago I was approached by Canada-based writer...

Very happy to have two stories up in this month’s Connotation Press, one started in a Kathy Fish Fast Flash class, the other from a...

This story started in a Meg Pokrass Facebook class – highly recommended, by the way, and terrific fun. Meg’s prompts are left-field and...

October 10th brought a special writing acceptance for me: a prose poem, the first I’ve ever sent out, one of the only ones I've ever...

I spent the last couple of months working on a thing I really wanted to apply for, trying very hard to write The Best Story I Have Ever...

A month or so ago I was asked to do an interview for Zero Flash magazine – here. It was published on 2nd October, a couple of days after...

I won a thing! I’m pretty happy about it (for which read super-delighted; might have jumped up and down in the street a bit). The...

Earlier in the year I received a message from the award-winning poet and translator, Nguyen Phan Que Mai . She had read the story that...

I was honoured and terrified in roughly equal measure to be asked to read Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour at the launch of the National Flash...

Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour, my story chosen as the title for the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2017, was included in Tino...

This is from October 2016. I’d never done an interview before, and I'd never had a story published before—it was only the second time I'd...