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Archive for February, 2014

My Winning Story – Synaesthesia Magazine

Here’s the link to my story ‘Love and Glitter’, winner of the Synaesthesia Magazine Short Story Competition, along with comments from the judge, Adam Marek, an interview with me (don’t worry, I kept my answers short), lots of ‘nonsensical’ poetry and stunning art. Your brain will fizz and pop as you peruse. Nonsense is the theme of […]

I’ve just finished – The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy

This is a weird book, weird and somehow I want to kiss it. Strange. I admit I’m a fan of weird books – I particularly enjoyed Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes which is exhumed from Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles and is,  I suppose, a piece of sculpture as well as a book, virtually impossible to […]

My story wins the Synaesthesia Magazine Competition

Here’s the link to my story ‘Love and Glitter’, winner of the Synaesthesia Magazine Short Story Competition, along with comments from the judge, Adam Marek, an interview with me (don’t worry, I kept my answers short), lots of ‘nonsensical’ poetry and stunning art. Your brain will fizz and pop as you peruse. The theme of […]

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