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

CW: alcoholism, addiction, family trauma, domestic violence I recently finished reading Stephen King's The Shining for the second time....

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