PUBLICATIONS


IMAGE: TOBY RHIND-TUTT


Our kind of structuralist […] fine usage of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises In Style” Manchester Review Of Books

BOOKS

Lune
poetry pamphlet with Red Ceilings Press (1 September 2023) - order here or direct from me!

Using Language 
poetry pamphlet with Invisible Hand Press (27 April 2023) - order here or direct from me!

Marine Drive 
prose pamphlet with Broken Sleep Books (September 2022; ISBN 978-1-915079-41-1) - order here

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poetry pamphlet with Contraband Books (September 2022; ISBN 978-1-910319-41-3) - order here

READ REVIEWS OF CACHE-CACHE AND MARINE DRIVE IN MANCHESTER REVIEW OF BOOKS HERE AND NORTHERN SOUL HERE

WATCH SARAH-CLARE CONLON READ FROM MARINE DRIVE HERE





JOURNALS & ANTHOLOGIES

Spelt Magazine (Spring 2024) - Roars

Litfest Histories Map (March 2024) - Scars

Blackbox Manifold (Winter 2023, issue 31) - Untitled, a collaboration with Robert Sheppard

Doubt Wisely anthology, ed Tom Branfoot (November 2023) - Horizon Gazing

Poetry Scotland (Autumn 2023) - 
Stand Your Ground (Scorton, Lancashire), after Jen Orpin - order here

Confingo, guest ed Nicholas Royle (issue 20, October 2023) - An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Manchester - order here

Litfest From Source To Sea (March 2023) - See Us Drop From Eden

Outcrop Poetry (issue 1, March 2023) - Drawings From A Sculptor’s Landscape

Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2022 (Broken Sleep Books, 10 December, 2022; ISBN 978-1-915079-77-0) - order here

Lancashire Stories Anthology (Uclan Publishing, November 2022) - Proceed With All Due Caution short story - read via Borrowbox

Ilkley Literature Festival (November 2022) - Ilkley Moor Poetry Map

Mercurius (3 October 2022) - Let's Go Round Again

Litfest This Place, This Planet (March 2022) - Drinkwaters

All Becomes Art Joan Eardley Centenary Collection (Speculative Books, edited by Colin Herd and Sam Small, January 2022) - Place Setting

The Interpreter's House (#76, October 2021) - Will Finches Inhabit Me?

WalkCreate Gallery (October 2021) - Words, Numbers & Everything & Nothing In Between - online launch event 3 November, free tickets here

Firmament from Sublunary Editions (issue 3, Summer 2021) - Navigation Is Difficult, More Now Than Ever Perhaps

PN Review (OuLiPo supplement, ed Philip Terry, May-June 2021) - nine hundred, with Jazmine Linklater - more here

PERVERSE (issue 5, May 2021) - Peinture et droguerie

Splonk (issue 5, May 2021) - The Lookout

Poetry Scotland (Spring 2021) - Essential Non-essentials

Osmosis Press (April 2021) - Daily Permissible Exercise in Style: N=N

Litfest Places of Poetry (March 2021) - Moorland Fog

Confingo (issue 14, November 2020) - Words, Numbers & Everything & Nothing In Between

Wild-On-Medlock, a hidden nature zine by Victoria Baths (September 2020) - Flight Silhouettes

Postcards From Malthusia (New Boots and Pantisocracies) (June 2020) - Guidance Avoidance   

Ellipsis (June 2020) - The Wild (400 words)

Mid Life Crisis Zine Series "The Virus Edition" (April 2020) - Daily Permissible Exercises In Style

Lighthouse Journal (issue 20, Autumn 2019; ISSN 2056 9165), flash fiction special edited by Christopher Allen & Helen Rye - Warning Signs (600 words) - BUY HERE

Port anthology, Dunlin Press (November 2019; ISBN 978-0-9931259-6-6) - The General Synopsis At Midday (1,000 words) - BUY HERE

Love Bites anthology, Dostoyevsky Wannabe (August 2019; ISBN 978-1686089596), edited by Andrew Gallix, Tomoé Hill & CD Rose - The Institute (400 words) - BUY HERE

Mid Life Crisis Zine Series "Alice" issue (August 2019) - Let's Go Round Again (510 words)

Story Cities anthology, Arachne Press (June 2019; ISBN 978-1-909208-78-0), in association with the University of Greenwich - Feet In A Yard (250 words) 

Peter Barlow’s Cigarette Sampler #31 (April 2019) - various   

Reflex Fiction (January 2019) - Here Once All Fields (200 words) - Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019

Flash Fiction Festival Two (November 2018; ISBN 978-1-912095-59-9) - Inside Out (250 words)

Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Manchester (July 2018; ISBN 978-1723215674) - Flight Path (1,500 words)

"Adept at establishing and sustaining precisely the right tone - mock-heroic, self-deprecating, at once sceptical and credulous" 
- Tim Shearer, editor, Confingo magazine


Flash Fiction Festival One (December 2017; ISBN 978-1-912095-67-4) - Giving Up the Day Job (250 words)

The Bolton Review (May 2017; ISSN 2398-1938) - Where The Other Half Live (150 words)

The Other Room Anthology (April 2017; ISSN 2040 3143) - Sweet Green Tavern I & II (400 words)

Flash Magazine anthology Funny Bone: Flashing for Comic Relief (March 2017; ISBN 978-0-9931822-2-8) - Do Birds Die Flying? (150 words)

Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology volume 1: To Carry Her Home (February 2017; ISBN 978-1-912095-00-1) - Are You Afraid Of The Dark? (250 words)

Live From Worktown Anthology #3 (December 2016) - Wish You Were There? (200 words)

FlashFlood (June 2016) - The Clock Struck One (350 words)

The Bolton Review (April 2016; ISSN 2398-1938) - Wish You Were Here? (200 words) & The Clock Struck One (350 words)

TubeFlash (March 2016) - And Sons (300 words)

Paragraph Planet (March 2016) - I Don't Want To Mess Up His Floor (75 words)

Spelk (July 2015) - Personalities Don't Make Good Screensavers (300 words)

Stand (March 2015, Volume 13(1) - #205; ISSN 0038-9366) - various (I See Electric, Off The Grid)

The Manchester Anthology (September 2014; ISBN 978-0-9926284-1-3) - various (Clean MeEveryone Has A Favourite Spot, extract of novel A Note On The Type)

Merry Gentlemen (December 2013) - Clandestine Cake Club (100 words)

The Ofi Press (November 2013) - Off The Grid (150 words)

Aka Hige's Opening (September 2013) - Aegis (300 words)

The Salt Anthology Of New Writing 2013 (August 2013; ISBN 978-1-84471-919-8) - Clean Me (180 words)

Thick Jam (December 2012) - Taking Work Home Again (350 words)

Flash: The International Short-short Story Magazine (October 2012; ISSN 1756-5200) - Everyone Has A Favourite Spot (278 words)

FlashFlood (October 2012) - The Luckiest Man Alive (300 words)

Now Then (October 2012) - Such A Natural (150 words)

Featherlit (July 2012) - Landscape Portrait (250 words) - "playful and beautifully observed"

Comma Press / Literature Northwest The Hat You Wear (June 2012 - available for Kindle via Amazon) - Poster Girl (333 words)

Ferment Literature Zine (June 2012) - If You Can't See My Mirrors, I Can't See You (300 words)

Lancashire Writing Hub (May 2012) - Preston Bypass (250 words)

FlashFlood (May 2012) - Rock Paper Scissors (175 words)

Jawbreakers: National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology (May 2012 - available for Kindle via Amazon or as hard copies via the NFFD website; ISBN 978-1-84914-285-4) - Natural (150 words)

Paragraph Planet (May 2012), NFFD special reissue - Beth's Husband Worked For The Gas Board

Flash365 (February 2012) - Names Have Been Changed (204 words)

Games Perverts Play (February 2012) - Dirty Books (297 words)

Paragraph Planet (19 January 2012) - Beth's Husband Worked For The Gas Board (aka 69 Words About The Fire Service) flash fiction (75 words)

Top Ten (January 2012) - Top Ten Discarded Shopping Lists creative non-fiction

Duality (December 2011) - The Moths flash fiction (400 words)

Spilling Ink Review - I See Electric (December 2011)

330 Words (October 2011) - Solid Foundations Are Of Paramount Importance flash fiction (330 words)

Paraxial Tales (September 2011) - Microfiche - Paraxis Library Wall flash fiction contribution (150 words)

The Pygmy Giant (September 2011) - Dress-down Friday flash fiction (400 words)

Spilt Milk magazine (September 2011) - Names Have Been Changed flash fiction (204 words)

330 Words (September 2011) - Her Fancier Man flash fiction (330 words)

NYC Midnight (August 2011) - Revolve micro fiction (15 words) 

Rainy City Stories (August 2011) - Poster Girl flash fiction (333 words)

We Hate Words - Issue 4 creative non-fiction; editor since July 2011

330 Words (July 2011) - Bird Strike flash fiction (330 words)

Other magazine (June 2011) - The Taxonomy Inspector #2 creative non-fiction

330 Words (April 2011) - White Rabbits flash fiction (330 words)

Roy Keane's Lucky Scarf (March 2011) - The Luck Department flash fiction (400 words)

330 Words (November 2010) - Jane Doe flash fiction (330 words)

Roy Keane's Lucky Scarf (November 2010) - Glasshouses flash fiction (323 words)

Other magazine (August 2010) - The Taxonomy Inspector #1 creative non-fiction

330 Words (August 2010) - Hope flash fiction (330 words)

Ask Ben & Clare creative non-fiction; editor since August 2010

Bad Language (June 2010) - Cracking The Flags poem

330 Words (April 2010) - An Accident Waiting To Happen flash fiction (330 words)

Angels Of Anarchy (October 2009) - Poem 27 poem (line 2)

Rainy City Stories (September 2009) - Hawthorn Lane poem