Writing and whatnot from elsewhere.

"This matt-black bound collection is likely to be desired by every Joy Division fan. But for those readers who aren’t familiar with the band, these stories exist boldly in their own right." - The Observer

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IN PRINT

Lodestones
A ghost story published in
This Dreaming Isle

Plunge Hill
Coming soon from
The Eden Society

We Were Strangers
An anthology
Available now

The Upstairs Room
A ghost story published in
The Shadow Booth

The Night Visitors
A novella co-written with Jenn Ashworth
Available now

Bait
A short story published in
Confingo

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A short story published in
Being Dad

Do You Know How to Waltz?
A ghost story published in
The Big Issue in the North

Do You Know How to Waltz?
Also published in
Congregation of Innocents

And the Children Followed
A ghost story published in
Poor Souls' Light

Drums at Cullen
A ghost story published in
The Longest Night

Flood
A short story published in
Bare Fiction

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ONLINE

Fiction
Kloya and Klik (The Island Review)
Bus Station: Unbound (Curious Tales)
Hamartia (Litro)
Mothering Season (The Manchester Review)

Nonfiction
Essay: We Were Strangers (The Learned Pig)
Review: We Are the End (Litro)
Essay: A Brief History Of Cannibalism In Film (The Quietus)
Essay: Let’s Take the Dog for a Walk and Frighten Somebody! (The Real Story)
Feature: Ten Modern Epistolary Novels (The Guardian)
Review: Tell me How This Ends Well (Litro)
Essay: Frankenstein: Before the Beginning (The Learned Pig)
Feature: Five Patrick McGrath Novels (Curious Tales)
Review: Blood Relatives (The Guardian)
Essay: Rob Zombie’s Halloween (The Quietus)
Review: The Nightmare (The Quietus)
Feature: Ten Winters in Literature (The Guardian)
Review: The Buried Giant (Bookmunch)

Interviews
The Wandering Bard
The End of All Things
Gehenna & Hinnom

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AWARDS

2017 - The Night Visitors - Winner of the Saboteur Awards Best Novella category
2011 - School Report - Winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize

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