A Personal Anthology is a short story project run by the writer Jonathan Gibbs. Each week he asks a guest editor to choose their twelve favourite short stories and write about them. It was a big challenge to come up with my list – it contains a few familiar names, but also I hope one or two surprises. You can read it here.
Tag: short stories
Upper Kutz

(Photo by André Reis on Unsplash)
New story alert! In ‘Upper Kutz’, a family drama plays out in a barber’s on Christmas Eve. Really proud of this story, which took several years to come to fruition, and especially pleased to have it published in Structo, one of my favourite literary magazines. You can read it here.
The First Writer-in-Residence on the Moon

Delighted that my story ‘The Final Front Ear’, about the first writer-in-residence on the moon, has been shortlisted for the Plaza Prize. See the full shortlist here.