News

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

On Friday 25 October I will be taking part in a Conscience Reading in support of political prisoners.  Continue reading Conscience Reading

Here is a poem by Gill Green inspired by my course Writing From Artefacts which took place last week.
Continue reading The Course

Edinburgh Festival magazine ThreeWeeks features a great interview about the creation of our exhibition Ruffled Russell and the Lost Soul: Artists and Their Materials.  Continue reading Ruffled Russell in the press

My short story about the Paston Family is now live at no. 26 on Norwich 26. Continue reading 26 for Norwich

My story A Wee Minding is published in Gutter 09 from Freight. Continue reading Gutter 09

My exhibition for the Edinburgh International Festival about an existential Jack Russell dog opens today at 10.30am at The Hub in Edinburgh. Continue reading Ruffled Russell and the Lost Soul: Artists and their Materials

My short story, A Wee Minding, has been longlisted for the 2013 Bristol Short Story Prize.

Booking now open for my 3-day creative writing course, ‘Writing from Artefacts: the power of objects to inspire’, part of the Edinburgh University Open Studies Summer Programme.