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Kickstart Your Writing in 2026 – Beginning Saturday, January 10th! New year, new goals—why not make writing one of them? Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started, sometimes we all need a little push to get back into the groove. If you’re looking for that extra boost to get your creative ideas flowing and your…
I’m so thrilled to see my flash piece The Altar of St Cindy in brilliant company in this beautiful new issue of The Vestal Review. Thanks so much to David Galef, to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began, and to my lovely writing group as always!
I’m really happy to see my flash fiction piece The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter in stellar company in this special FamPunk edition of Flash Fiction Online. Thanks so much to lovely editors Emma Burnett and Rebecca Halsey, and to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in a writing fitness workshop.
I’m so looking forward to this lovely panel event, Cream of Cornish, in which Peter McAllister will lead a discussion of Cornwall in Short with fellow anthology authors Shelley Trower, Clare Howdle and me, at North Cornwall Book Festival in just over a week at 10-11am 27 September.
I’m really excited to see my micro piece On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird published in the summer edition of The Citron Review. Thanks so much to lovely editor JR Walsh, and to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then ended up winning the ‘up to 250-word…
Over at Inkfish Magazine and Press, we were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall in Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our amazing authors! The Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th: https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/shortlist-2025/
So excited to be moderating this panel event in conversation with a group of amazing flash fiction authors, Storytelling as Resistance for National Flash Fiction Day NZ, tomorrow at 10:30 pm BST, featuring Anton Blank, Síle Mannion, Eraldo Souza dos Santos, Afua Awo Twumwaah and Viktoriia Vozhrenko. Lovely author and editor Michelle Elvy invited me…
It’s been an amazing experience to work with series and managing editors Nathan Leslie and Michelle Elvy and fellow Associate Editors, Barbara Byar, Damian Dressick, Lynn Mundell, Mandira Pattnaik, and Charles Rammelkamp on this year’s Best Small Fictions anthology! Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short…
I was over the moon that The Cincinnati Review published my micro piece The Meat Ration! Thanks so much to editor Kate Jayroe, and especially to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then somehow won the up to 400-word story competition at the end of the wonderfully fun…
At the beginning of 2024, I launched a literary magazine – Inkfish – with my friend, brilliant writer and editor Peter McAllister. Our third edition will come out on October 31st, embracing the Hallowe’en-y seasonal atmosphere. Our second edition celebrated Cornish writers and artists and was so lovely to assemble that we decided to release…