My "A good show" story is in BigCity Lit - www.nycbigcitylit.com/winter-2026-...

My "Props" (Flash) is in Mugwort - mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s...

I've started some notes about Peter Daniels' "Happy and Fortunate" online at litrefsarticles.blogspot.com/2025/12/pete...

If you're trying to write a sestina (I've not succeeded yet), you might find my notes useful - litrefsarticles.blogspot.com/2019/07/sest... #poetry

I've added more items to my list of 360 #shortstories Collection write-ups at litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... I liked the short story books that Salt published - by Frankel, Roensch and Merill

I've added 7 items (my favourite being Santino Prinzi's book) to my list of #Flash Collection write-ups at litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of...

Great evening yesterday at Cambridge Writers, celebrating the launch of this year's short story competition anthology: amzn.eu/d/21jpQBS

Cambridge Writers has launched a new creative writing blog series, written by Hannah Hooton, our Publicity and Events Officer. Her first post is on descriptive writing - see it here: www.cambridgewriters.org?p=3791

My site of write-ups - litrefsreviews.blogspot.com - passed a milestone of a million hits this month. Currently it's at 1023326. A drop in the ocean compared with Tiktoc, and (I suspect) mostly bots ...

A reminder that 1500+ Lit Quotes are at litrefsquotes.blogspot.com , Lit Articles are at litrefsarticles.blogspot.com , longer poetry reviews are at litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/longer-poe... and my write-ups of short stories are listed on litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of...

I'm back from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social, again impressed by how different it is each year. Maybe fewer braided pieces and hermit crabs? Here's what the karaokers missed in the quiet room

I've a poem in Black Nore Review today - "Flint and Glass" blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/t...

My story "Time to go" is out today in Marrow - marrowmagazine.com/time-to-go/

Just back from the launch of a new, printed, mostly poetry mag - A5, 170+ pages, £5. The Little Review thelittlereview.co.uk

My "Body Language" (Flash) has just appeared in Toasted Cheese - tclj.toasted-cheese.com/2025/25-2/bo...

My latest blog-post - "Workshop critiques and variety" - litrefs.blogspot.com/2025/06/work...

My poem "Otherness" is in "Atrium" today - atriumpoetry.com/2025/05/30/o...

My poem "The Impossibility of Motion" is in Panoply today - panoplyzine.com/the-impossib...

My poem, "From Page to Stage" is in Snakeskin today - www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/328frompage....

I've a Flash piece, "Triptych", in Metaworker - themetaworker.com/2025/04/04/t...

I've a poem, "After the Storm" in "Stick Figure Poetry" - stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-17/#af...

A Dribble today in "The Hoolet’s Nook" - www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe...

Got a rejection yesterday. I over-reacted, sending a dozen things off. I now have 10 stories, 11 flashes, and 16 poems out there. Time I started writing some new stuff.

"Poets writing about their poems" - see litrefs.blogspot.com/2025/01/poet...

Articles (some previously published in mags), interviews, and some notes I used to run various workshops litrefsarticles.blogspot.com/p/thematic-l...

litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... lists my write-ups of #shortstory collections (about 200) litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... lists my write-ups of #flashfiction collections (about 20)

So I'll start with a reminder about my lit-quotes hoard at litrefsquotes.blogspot.com - 1600+ categorised quotes to put in essays or start a review with.