My piece on the genesis of a short story in ‘The Lonely Crowd’.
photo by Jo Mazelis
Category Archives: Prose
Pushcart Prize Nomination
My story, ‘All Through The Night’ has been nominated by its publisher, Crannóg for the Pushcart Prize, ‘the most honoured literary project in America’.
The story is available to read here.
It was completed during the period of my Literature Wales Bursary 2017. It is part of my unpublished collection, ‘A City Burning’ which was edited by Gwen Davies of the New Welsh Review.
Congratulations to my fellow prose nominees, David Butler and Emily Woodworth and to poets, stephanie roberts, Jane Burn and Ruth Thompson.
Short Story in The Lonely Crowd
Crannog 49 Short Story
Cover art: Telling Lies by Ann-Marie Browne
My Short Story All Through The Night, set on the coast of west Wales is in this edition.
Reporting The Troubles – Review
Write By The Sea Short Story Competition
I had a lot of fun entering the Kilmore Quay Write By The Sea Short Story Competition 2018. I was so delighted that all three of my entries were among the seven shortlisted.
Short Story in Crannog magazine
Crannóg magazine of Galway are taking a Wales-set story of mine for Issue 49 due late October. I’m delighted to have a piece accepted by them.
My blog joins UK Web Archive
My blog has been selected for inclusion in the UK Web Archive
“a cross section of UK Web logs containing a wealth of material which will be of value to researchers now and in the future”
Cardiff Book Festival
It was lovely to meet novelist, Mandy Sutter (‘Bush Meat’) and Gwen Davies, editor of the New Welsh Review at our session during the Cardiff Book Festival. We were discussing Writing Psychology from Place: witness, exile and belonging.
I read my N Ireland-set short story ‘At Oirthear Maí’.
Stories on the Beach
Two of my stories set by the sea:
Runner from the current issue of The Honest Ulsterman
Face To Face from Horla
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