Strathclyde Creative Writing
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Fantasycon 2026
Let’s talk Fantasycon next, which is taking place at Glasgow’s Crowne Plaza Hotel over 9th – 11th October 2026. I’ll be there on 9th and 10th for quite a packed couple of…
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BSFA Awards: The Honey Trap wins Best Short Fiction – Updated
Well. That was a bit unexpected, wasn’t it? As I start to write this, it’s nearly midnight on Tuesday evening. I finally got home from Eastercon late last night. I’ve spent…
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Eastercon 2015: Dysprosium – Schedule
Looks like the updated programme book for next weekend’s Dysprosium con (the 2015 Eastercon) is now online. Here’s what I’ll be up to: This year, NewCon Press (who published ‘The Honey…
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Photo Friday: Nadine Shah and Kingsley Chapman
The glorious Nadine Shah recently debuted ‘Nothing Else To Do’, a brand new track from her new album Fast Food (out on 6th April) on THIS EPISODE of the Mary Anne Hobbs…
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New Photos: Richard Dawson at the Star and Shadow
Some rather more sedate news this time. I popped along to catch Richard Dawson‘s darkly brilliant hometown show the other week, shooting for Drowned in Sound. With support from Vibracathedral Orchestra, and…
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BSFA Awards: Best Short Story Nomination for ‘The Honey Trap’
I’m delighted to announce that one of my stories has made the shortlist for this year’s British Science Fiction Association Awards. ‘The Honey Trap’, from NewCon Press anthology La Femme, has been…
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New Photos: Mark Lanegan on Drowned In Sound
Drowned in Sound have uploaded some of the photos I took of Mark Lanegan at the Riverside in Newcastle recently. There’s also a couple of shots in there I took of the…
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New Story: Good Boy
After a slight delay, the January issue of Far Horizons is available online now. Amongst this month’s jam-packed issue of eclectic offerings, they’ve given a home to ‘Good Boy’, a new piece…
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2014: Overture
So that was 2014, almost. Very nearly all of it, though I can’t help but feeling that there’s still something lingering behind the curtain, waiting for us to declare our said-and-dones, so…
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Thrash Hits Top Tens and My Favourite Musical Finds of 2014
So. Things have been happening, and it’s the end of the year, and I should really write a blog. Really. Write. A Blog. See, it’s not that I don’t want to, but…