• I’m so proud of my 11 year 8 students in the Writers’ Group I teach at school… they’re through to the UK finals in the [...]

  Poetry Matters 2011 book

  May 13, 2011
• Short story this month – ‘Jim’ in Wufniks Magazine. Check it out here Psychoanalysis: Read between the lines… if you want [...]

  Jim

  May 9, 2011
• Whiskey + novel writing = lots of mistakes! Leave the whiskey drinking until after you’ve finished writing for the day, especially when [...]

  Writing tip of the week

  April 23, 2011
• This is a self portrait that I did in acrylic and ink. First I started by sketching in pencil on the blank jigsaw base. Then I added the flesh [...]

  Jigsaw puzzle

  April 18, 2011

• Under Leilanie Stewart ‘Nautical Almanac’ – Issue 32 of The Journal Under Leilanie C. ‘Sandland’ ‘Seven For a [...]

  My poems in Erbacce and The Journal

  March 21, 2011
• I spent a great deal of my teens reading and writing horror and fantasy. When I was 20 I wrote a fantasy adventure novel for children. After 1 [...]

  In a Nutshell

  March 20, 2011