Category: Dot Dash

January 2, 2018Competitions, Dip Flash, Dot Dash, Love and Loss and Other Important Stuff, Rejections, Work in Progress

So Farewell Then, 2017

Well, that was an odd year for writing, that’s for sure. Some very good things happened, certainly, but a lot of things […]

November 22, 2017November 23, 2017Dip Flash, Dot Dash, Love and Loss and Other Important Stuff

Putting It All Together

Back in February of this year I signed a contract with Cultured Llama for my next short story collection, Dip Flash. One […]

August 9, 2017Dot Dash, Facebook, Mrs Darcy, Performances, Take It Cool

Housekeeping News

When I started having stuff published, I resisted the idea of having my own Facebook page, because it seemed a bit vain. […]

July 10, 2017June 21, 2019Competitions, Dot Dash

Some More Thoughts on Failure

Inevitably, once I’d hit the “Publish” button on my last post, it struck me that there were a whole load of things […]

February 8, 2017Acceptances, Dot Dash

Cultured Llama to Publish DIP FLASH

Well, it’s been a while since I last had a book published. Almost three years in fact. So I have to say […]

January 29, 2015Broadcasts, Competitions, Dot Dash

Opening Lines

It’s that time of the year again, when the BBC open their virtual doors to unsolicited short story submissions from writers new […]

November 20, 2014Dot Dash, Interviews, Other people, Take It Cool, The Literary World

National Short Story Week

Is it that time of year already? Apparently it is, and I’m not talking about that festival beginning with C either. No, […]

September 1, 2014September 1, 2014Dot Dash, Interviews, Other people, Take It Cool

Interview with Carys Bray

Last week I was interviewed by the humungously talented Carys Bray. Carys was a Scott Prize winner in 2012 with her excellent […]

June 20, 2014June 20, 2014Dot Dash

Dashipedia

I meant to do this when DOT DASH came out, but I didn’t have the time and I thought it was a […]

March 4, 2014Acceptances, Dot Dash, Interviews, Performances, Publications

The Stinging Fly and Other Stuff

The Spring edition of the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly has just been published, and what a lovely thing it is. […]