My initiation into Faction Paradox
I’m really excited to be able to say I’m going to be part of a new Faction Paradox collection next year!
My life as a body
There was an extent to which being a body implied violence; like if you were going to keep on being a body this was something you’d have to be comfortable with. But then I never was, and still think I am not really, and so now I mostly forget I am a body at all.
One year on: Some thoughts on being part of Stim: An Autistic Anthology
It’s been just over a year since Stim: An Autistic Anthology was published by Unbound Press, so I thought I’d talk a bit about my story in it about selkies and having a terrible time at university.
The world in the self and the self in the world: Thoughts on The Midnight Library
Some quick thoughts about Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library” and why my own depressed brain ended up finding it a bit unsatisfying.
The reality of coronavirus: Writing fiction in 2021
Some thoughts on trying to write a reality that includes a global pandemic in the fictional worlds we create.
Review: Strangers, by Rebecca Tamás
When I was a teenager I got deeply obsessed with the fact that minds and the people that have them might not be the same thing.
Working out what good mental health actually is
I didn’t really know what good mental health actually was, so I asked my friends to help me come up with a definition I felt happy with.
Review: On Bodies, by Three of Cups press
I am a body, so there was lots in this book I found affirming and relatable. And at the same time I also found it to be very sad, because all the bodies who wrote it seem to hate being bodies at all.
Elabon
A chapter from a novel I wrote ages ago about swimming through space and the strange planets you come to as you do.
Complaint
A complaint I wrote to the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival’s Writing Awards that won second place in the awards themselves.
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