A chance to write for radio

Added on 08 February 2016

My current writing project (the vast historical novel, or is it a trilogy?) is nearing completion and I have vowed that next I will write work that is small, compact and preferably oral. I have lots of ideas for radio pieces, and it's a medium I'd love to explore, but I'm an inexperience...

Into the Forest is selling out

Added on 15 January 2016

If you don't yet have a copy of Into the Forest, the beautiful anthology of tree poems that Saraband Books helped me to create, you had better get one before it's too late. I have six left but the distributor has run out, which means that all the copies that exist are out there on sale somew...

Writing retreat

Added on 18 December 2015

I will be leading a creative writing retreat on Tanera Mor, in the Summer Isles, immediately before the Ullapool Book Festival in early May 2016. To find out more see here.