Authors' Foundation support

Added on 10 August 2017

I'm delighted to have been awarded an Authors' Foundation grant to take time to work on my next writing project, so I can dedicate September to this and more time in the early part of 2018. And no, I can't tell you what it's about. It's a secret, for now!

Blogging elsewhere

Added on 10 August 2017

In case you're wondering why I've gone quiet, it's because I have been writing blog posts on other sites, and I seem to have a finite capacity to do this, hence none getting written here. At the moment I'm writing the dig diary for an archaeology project at Clachtoll Broch, just up t...

The sea as a time machine

Added on 15 June 2017

I will be leading a workshop about using the sea as inspiration for writing about the past (or the future), at the 'Expressing the Earth' conference, on Seil and Luing islands, 22-24 June. For more information see here: http://www.geopoetics.org.uk/