multidimensional artist & storyteller

ABOUT ME
Artist, dreamer, and time traveller, finding and sharing images and stories from the deep past, far future, and other dimensions.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
○ 2017 Winner British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction (White Rabbit)
○ 2024 British Fantasy Award nomination for Best Collection (The House on the Moon)
○ 2021 British Fantasy Award nomination for Best Novella (Honeybones)
○ 2020 British Fantasy Award nomination for Best Collection (This House of Wounds)
○ 2019 British Fantasy Award nomination for Best Short Story (Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees)
○ 2019 Shortlisted for British Science Fiction Award for Best Novella (Honeybones)
○ 2022 and 2018 Longlisted for the Mslexia short story prize
○ 2011 Longlisted for the Bridport Prize
RESIDENCIES
○ Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 Artist in Residence, Arteles Creative Centre, Haukijärvi, Finland
○ May 2023 Artist in Residence, Arteles Creative Centre, Haukijärvi, Finland
○ March & Dec 2022 Writer in Residence, Moniack Mhor, Scotland
○ 2008 Storyteller in Residence, Dowdales School, Cumbria
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
○ The House on the Moon, collected fiction, published by Black Shuck Books, 2023
○ Honeybones, novella, published by TTA Press, 2020
○ This House of Wounds, collected fiction, published by Undertow Press, 2019Selected Short Fiction:
○ The Book of Dreems, in This Way Madness Lies, Flame Tree Press, 2025
○ An Innocent Beast, in Uncertainties 7, Swan River Press, 2024
○ Over 30 short stories published in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Interzone, Black Static, Dark Tales, Salt Best British Fiction, Clockwork Phoenix, Ideomancer, Shimmer, Strange Horizons, and others.Non-Fiction publications:
○ Book reviews and interviews for Interzone magazine between 2019 - 2023.
○ Weekly Substack articles at 'Woman with Slow Puncture'
○ Articles and interviews published in Metro, Mslexia Magazine, Black Static and others.
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
○ Nov 2024: ‘Writing the Uncanny,’ online workshop
○ March 2024: 'Fantastically Weird' workshop for Realms of Fantasy, Derby
○ Dec 2023: 'Horror Mode' workshop for Horror Writing Course, Derby
○ 2020, 2021 & 2022: Various workshops for Cymera Festival, Edinburgh
○ 2022: Online workshops and courses for The Story School
○ 2012 - 2022 Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, Edinburgh College
○ 2006 - 2007: Screenwriting courses for Fledgling Films
○ 2005: Creative writing evening class tutor, Carlisle College
EDUCATION & TRAINING COURSES
○ 2025: Dream Teacher Training with Robert Moss, online
○ 2022: Mslexia Novel Writing School, online
○ 2020: Oral Storytelling, folk and traditional, The Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
○ 2012 – 2013: MA Creative Writing, Napier University of Edinburgh
○ 2007 – 2008: PGCE (Further Education), University of Wolverhampton
○ 1995 – 1998: BA (Hons) Information & Media Studies. First Class. University of Brighton