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.

Creative Scotland bursary

Added on 01 December 2015

I am currently the proud recipient of a bursary from Creative Scotland, to enable me to devote serious time, energy and creative focus to my current writing project. This is a historical novel, the working title for which is The Stone Stories. It is long, and in three parts - it will quite possibly ...