I submitted my PhD last month and will have my Viva on 18th January 2019.  I am rethinking my writing life and how I can earn money to support my family.  I’ve been a freelancer for 10 years or so – and have been doing some part-time teaching at the University of Liverpool since 2014 Continue reading

I went in to Radio Merseyside on 15.7.17 to promote the work of North End Writers and to talk about a creative writing workshop I did on 10.7.17 at the Royal British Legion Pop In Centre.  Broadcaster, Helen Jones invited me to deliver the workshop to the Up for Arts group (made up of Radio Continue reading

All these strange and separate phenomena have been with me this week. I have been attending poetry readings for a long time, since I was 15 (and that’s a long time) so it is good to be able to organise a few events at Open Eye Gallery where I’ve been working as Writer-in-Residence since 2016.  This opportunity Continue reading

This is my essay, selected as overall winner in the AHRC’s 10th Anniversary essay competition. In the early 1970s my family moved to a new house. On the low, built-in bookcases in the front room we found a number of volumes, books left by the previous occupant; it was as though to leave the shelves Continue reading