IGISIRI - I've Got It So I'll Read It campaign (5). Hell for me would be a desert island with no books - in fact anywhere with no books! View my complete profile My story 'Salt' won the Historical Novel Society's London 2014 Conference Story Award, was published in ‘Distant Echoes’ published by Corazon Books and will shortly be republished in my own collection, ‘An Oxford Vengeance’. My chapter on Pre-writing appears in 'Studying Creative Writing', in the Creative Writing Series published by Frontinus. My unpublished children's novel 'Hinterland' reached the shortlist of four for Macmillan's Write Now Prize. 'Reputation', a finalist in the Historical Novel Society's short story prize 2012, appears in 'The Beggar at the Gate'. My stories have also won an Ian St James Award, been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize. As for my own writing, I republished my novel, 'The Chase', previously published by Bloomsbury. I also run workshops, give talks, and teach on various writing programmes for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education. I’ve run Fictionfire Literary Consultancy at for the past decade, offering editorial and writing coaching services as well as consultancy. Without these courses I would never have written anything. Inspiration for a number of fictional pieces that formed part of my masters’ degree. Stratford Scribes, facilitated by Cathy Whittaker. We are also members of an excellent writing group, The chance to consider a particular facet of writing and to put it into Writing and learn from others is important. Amongst the various courses andĬonferences, we attended a number of workshops. 
Reading lists for the masters’ degree in Creative Writing that several I supplemented the courses by reading the required Those courses taught me the basics of creative writing and encouraged me to For the next four years we were avid consumers of writing courses. Having written creatively during my professional career, the weekend was a Inspiring creative writing tutors that we have been fortunate to meet. The course was run by Crysse Morrison, the first of several Eight years ago she sawĪn advert for a writing weekend at Farncombe, sadly now closed as an adult
My youth, my wife, Mary, has always been a keen writer.
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