Backlisted Podcast is hosted by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller, and produced by Matt Hall. Each week a classic or…
Black Teeth at Fleet
News just in: I am pleased to finally announce that my debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, will…
Gordon Burn Prize
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile has been shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize. This news has made me…
Book Launch
Join us on Saturday July 1st at Bradford Literature Festival 2017 to celebrate the publication of my debut novel on…
Cock of the North
“A delicious slice of bleakness…” Described by Resident Advisor as a track that ‘snatches you out of the water’, Cock of…
Beyond the Silver Pit
In late spring I started researching a new poetry project, inspired by a framed family tree in my grandmother’s hallway.…
Big Weekend
Big Weekend (a poem from my last collection Dark Corners of the Land) has been included in a new anthology PUSH:…
Akiko Yosano: Sweet is the Taste of Tears
During the summer of 2014 I worked with publisher Michael Curran (Tangerine Press) on a new selection of tanka poems by…
The Year of Reading Women
I am honoured to be included in Joanna Walsh’s Read Women 2014 list of 250 female writers you must read this year.…
Bad Blood
After a year in the pipeline Bad Blood – a collaboration with filmmaker Martha Jurksaitis (Cherry Kino) and C.A.R. (Chloe…
