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Delighted to announce that I will be guest editor for the November issue of PENing, the Scottish PEN e-zine. Continue reading Guest Editor PENing E-zine

Absolutely thrilled to announce that I have secured a book deal with Pan Macmillan to publish my novel, Six Orange Pips Sucked Dry. Continue reading Book Deal!

It’s Festival time in Edinburgh and the poetic results of my Writer in Residence programme at the Royal High School are now on show. Continue reading Festivals and Calligrammes

Just some of the great feedback from Untaught to Shine, a theatrical collaboration between Stellar Quines and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Continue reading Fabulous, Celebratory, Thought-Provoking

Looking forward to my new 4-week course with the National Galleries of Scotland which begins on Saturday 30 August 2014. Continue reading An Introduction to Art Criticism

I’m thrilled to be working as a mentor for Stellar Quines Theatre Company and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on their project ‘Untaught to Shine’.  Continue reading Untaught to Shine

Delighted to announce that Clare Alexander of Aitken Alexander Associates has agreed to take me on as her client.  Continue reading Aitken Alexander Associates

The prize winning extract from my novel Buried or Burned has just been published on the Literature Works website. Continue reading Prize Winning Extract Published

I’m absolutely thrilled to have won first prize in the Literature Works First Page Writing Prize for 2013.  Continue reading Literature Works First Page Writing Prize

Delighted to be back as Writer in Residence at the Royal High School in Edinburgh on behalf of the Edinburgh International Festival.  Continue reading Royal High Writer in Residence 2013