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.

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,...

News zines and lovely times - Multitudes Zine Festival

Dark Speculations: Tales of Various Shapes & Shadows Volume I is a brand new anthology of 'beautifully crafted dark tales' from Little...

I headed out on a sunny Manchester evening to an event hosted by University of Manchester Press, publishers of Melissa Febos ’ most...

This piece was written for, and first published in, Outsider 'zine in May 2021. Outsider is a collection of personal essays, poems and...