The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge.

From The New Yorker: Karl Ove Knausgaard lays out the […]

Clive James 1939 – 2019

To many, Clive James will be remembered for his TV shows in the 80s and 90s but he came equipped with much more – an all-round wit and critic, nimble […]

The 100 Novels That Shaped Our World (According to the BBC…)

  Well, here’s an interesting list, courtesy of BBC Arts. […]

Fast Flash Workshop – Kathy Fish

Just finished a hugely enjoyable 10 day Fast Flash workshop with  @kathyfish (and a guest appearance from @megiddings) plus a group of great writers. It was a lot of fun […]

The 10 Best Short Story Collections Of The Decade

  With only two months of the decade remaining, here’s […]

Give It ten Years And AI Will Be Posting This For You

With the release of OpenAI’s GPT-2 – a sophisticated text […]

Jo Lloyd wins 2019 BBC national short story award

Welsh writer takes £15,000 prize for The Invisible, based on […]

LISP: Recommended and Interview

A special thanks to The London Independent Story Prize (LISP) for organising their quarterly competition. I have a story in their Recommended list this quarter alongside a short interview – which […]

Long List And Recommended

Happy to share a flash of mine landed on the long list of Flash 500 – one of my favourite writing competitions on the calendar, so I’m delighted to make […]

Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine

Delighted to have a piece I wrote earlier this year, […]

Bending Genres

There’s a new online journal in town, Bending Genres, offering writing retreats, online workshops and contests and special events. Their pilot issue was pretty special, with work from all the […]

happy new year

Lancet Liver Parasite A creature which spends its entire adult life inside a cow’s liver. After mating, its eggs are excreted into the cow’s faeces, where snails, who like to […]

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas and all that, such a pleasant time of the year and naturally, a time to reflect a little. With that in mind, looking back over 2017, three stories […]

Death Pool

Thanks to The Sunlight Press for publishing my story Death Pool this week. If you haven’t had a look at Sunlight’s site, you really should. Get on over there.

Sunlight Press

Delighted to say I’ve just had a 1000 word creative non-fiction piece called ‘Death Pool’ accepted by The Sunlight Press, a digital literary journal providing a home to new and established […]

New writing

Quite a quiet month in June, for various reasons. Sad to say, I missed out on (what looked like) a superb inaugural Flash Fiction Festival in Bath on 24th and […]