Some exciting news: I’ve been shortlisted in The Rialto pamphlet competition 2017! It’s their first pamphlet competition and a really...

In  February 2017, I’ll be running a seven-week creative writing course at M Shed Museum, Bristol harbourside. Here’s a little film I...

Here’s a short film made by me, about the excellent Growing Bolder project – funded by Bristol Ageing Better – and the performance we did...

(Here’s a film about the Young Writers’ Festival that First Story organises…) Now it’s all confirmed, I thought I’d do a quick blog about...

For my Off The Record  WRITE OFF group today, we had a lovely time reading some Limericks and then having a go at writing our own…Here’s...

One of the goaty references in my goaty piece… I put a piece of writing into the View from the Pen event at Windmill Hill City Farm –...

The next WRITE OFF sessions start Tuesday June 7th at Beatroots Cafe, Lower Park Row, 17.00 – 18.30, for six weeks. The young people who...

This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...

A zoo sign from Bristol Zoo – and a wonderful artistic intervention. Something from today, for yesterday…I ran a group today and we...

And a second blackout poem for today…Text version underneath… HURT creamy wealth chopped chopped peeled and grated ground ground dried...

“for a moment it is there” Day Eleven! I’m still operating on the idea that any of these I really like and want to take on, may be...

SEND IT BACK Catch up Friday (and because writing is more fun that other things I should probably be doing). A quickly-written but...

Yup, this is me after my haircut. (NB – OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT, from my ‘hair model’ Google, it’s apparently the alarmingly-pristine and...

A delightful ‘Dogship’ from this website – I don’t know what they do (because I can’t read it), but presumably it relates to dog care,...

“Let us get ourselves a pet…” My, it’s getting late. Which might be why day three turned out quite so peculiarly (sorry not sorry)....

“It said it was from IKEA…” (And this picture is from there). Day two for NaPoWriMo, and something I started yesterday. I looked through...

“A bright seed…” It’s April – and that means National Poetry Writing Month…And I’ve decided to really commit again this year. I’ll be...

A quick note to say my Write Off sessions will be starting again on Tuesday 1st March. The sessions are open to all young people from 15...

I’ve just started on a Future Learn course (a MOOC – Massive Online Open Course, I believe) – which is about Literature and Mental...

Well, it’s been quite an adventure over the Festive Pause – we’ve been away in Europe and, alas, our car conked out while there…This...