My paper 'Survival and Recovery: addiction and the therapeutic potential of horror writing' has been published and awarded the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies from Northumbria University; awarded at the Horror Studies Now conference.

I've had a cow-on-a-bridge story selected for the Best Small Fictions 2025 anthology.

Join me for a writing workshop at Levy Old Library on 8 March 2025, International Women's Day.

Fandoms and teenage friendship. Manic Street Preachers. A nostalgic tale of eyeliner, glitter and feather boas at the turn of the century.

Quit Lit recommendations for the newly sober, the long-term-boozefree-book nerds, the sober curious or anyone interested in life stories.

Who doesn't want to read about animals being in places they shouldn't be?

You look in the mirror and see a calm face, a jaw without tension, and the kind of shoulders that have a masseuse tutting in...

The new Wild Ink anthology, Tenpenny Dreadfuls: Tales as Hard as Nails , is out 10 September 2024. I have a short story ('Night Out,...

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