📍 New pinned post! Here's where you can find my recent stories:

✍️ Issue 22 of The Ghastling: theghastling.com/the-ghastling-book-twenty-two

✍️ Broken Ground, an anthology from @uncertainstories.com: uncertainstories.com/books/anthologies/broken-ground

And I'm the editor of @carnyxpress.co.uk!

Absolutely buzzing to have a short story out in The Ghastling this month. Meadow Seep is eco-horror meets home ownership nightmare, set beside the river Wear.

It'll be in issue 22, available to pre-order here: theghastling.com/the-ghastlin...

This is one of the comics I picked up from this year's Shortbox and it's absolutely delightful

Hey, I did a Q&A! Get a look inside my brain and my writing/reading habits!

Also yes I'm very aware that rivers feature prominently in a significant number of my stories, it's a Thing, I can't control it

Absolutely buzzing to have a short story out in The Ghastling this month. Meadow Seep is eco-horror meets home ownership nightmare, set beside the river Wear.

It'll be in issue 22, available to pre-order here: theghastling.com/the-ghastlin...

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

Hey, I did a Q&A! Get a look inside my brain and my writing/reading habits!

Absolutely wild that I have stories in a new print anthology and the upcoming issue of The Ghastling in the same month - feels like all sorts of things are coming to fruition right now

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

We’ve been getting some great responses to our author Q&A series, which we’ll be releasing over the next few weeks. Here’s the first:

Very cool article about the illustration that went with my short story in the Broken Ground anthology: www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...

Just got my author’s copies of #BrokenGround . Rob Redman, editor of @uncertainstories.com , has done a fantastic job, and the illustrations by @lucyscottpictures are superb.
Stories by me, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, Tamsin Hopkins, @nathanielspain.bsky.social , Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward.

Even if it delivers everything they promise with none of the downsides we're all concerned about, this is incredibly undemocratic

The government has responded to the 2.7 million people telling them not to introduce digital ID by basically saying "we know better than you, we're in charge, so stuff it" lol

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The anthology is out later this month, support a brand new press and pre-order here: www.uncertainstories.com

My contributor copies for Broken Ground, the first anthology from @uncertainstories.com, are here! This book is absolutely stunning 😍 So pleased to be a part of this, and looking forward to reading the stories by my fellow contributors.

Every October, we watch a selection of gothic, horror, and other seasonal films.

We started this one off with The Seventh Seal. I've watched this before, but I think I appreciate it more now I'm more familiar with the medieval imagination and what a good job this film does in tapping into it.

Submissions are now closed for our first anthology. Thank you to everyone who sent us a story! We've had over 100 submissions, from every corner of the North of England. It’s been very heartening to get such interest in the press, and for folks to trust us with their words ♥️

This month, I've been working on something for a horror game jam. It's a visual novel about religious exiles banished to a horrible planet. It's the first thing like this I've ever made!

It's currently act 1 of a planned 3 act story. You can download it for free here: moss-thing.itch.io/golgotha

Yes I have last-day-of-submissions crazies, but honestly this has been so much fun. Very happy with how it's gone so far. And there's still time to send me your work for consideration!

carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

Saw the writing advice to avoid adverbs as much as possible, which irritated me. Yes, an adverb which repeats the meaning of a verb is unnecessary ("he whispered softly") but every word has its place and flavour. It's not about stripping out types of word, it's about using them with intention.