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.
Category Archives: Prose
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
ENJOY!
The Ballymurphy Precedent
This documentary looks at the deaths of 11 civilians in Ballymurphy, Belfast in 1971 in the context of concerns about handling the legacy of the Troubles.
I was a teenager in the city at the time. My short story ‘The Road‘ in the current New Welsh Reader is set in Belfast in that year.
I’ll be chairing the Q & A session with Director, Callum Macrae at the BACTA Cymru screening, 6pm, Weds 8th August at Chapter Arts Centre.
Fe fydda i’n cadeirio sesiwn Holi ac Ateb BAFTA Cymru gyda’r cyfarwyddwr Callum Macrae ar yr 8fed o Awst am 6 yh yng Nghanolfan Chapter, Caerdydd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAKCVRx14l0
See Victoria Cosstick in Northern Slant on related documentaries and an acclaimed exhibition.
Stories of the Troubles: Silent Testimony and The Life After
Short Story in ‘The Honest Ulsterman’
I am particularly pleased to have my short story ‘Runner’ in The Honest Ulsterman, online on Thursday June 28th. Launched 40 years ago as ‘A Handbook for Revolution’, it has showcased world-class writers such as Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Longley, Louis McNeice – an amazing list.
Time to pay a personal tribute. Continue reading Short Story in ‘The Honest Ulsterman’
Short Story: Face To Face – Horla magazine
New story on Horla site
Short Story in HORLA
My story
http://www.horla.org/the-sea-hospital/
The Sea Hospital in the new ‘home of intelligent horror’: HORLA
Good Friday – Weekend Word
‘Good Morning Wales’ programme, BBC Radio Wales with Felicity Evans and Wyre Davies.