A collection of the winning stories from The Fine Line Short Story Prize, Even Birds Are Chained To The Sky and Other Tales is now available from Amazon, who describe it as follows: Some are tales of joy and others woe; some tell of destructive lust and others slow-blooming love. They are lavish, restrained, fantastical and beguilingly…
Stories
Best British Crime
My short story ‘Jungle Boogie’ was originally published in the Pulp Ink Anthology, which you can buy as an ebook on amazon. It will now be republished in The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 9, which Amazon describes as follows: The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan – the year’s top new…
Manchester Artists’ Book Fair, 2011
I’ve just been to the 6th Manchester Artists’ Book Fair, a free yearly event that celebrates book arts, small press publishing and traditional printmaking methods such as linocut, woodcut, etching, screen printing and letterpress. The fair included 50 stands showing artists’ books, zines and the works of small publishers from all around the UK. There were workshops and…


