Retreat cancelled

Added on 29 March 2016

Unfortunately the writing retreat week on Tanera Mor in the Summer Isles in early May has had to be cancelled. Hopefully we'll get another chance next year.

The Stone Stories

Added on 27 March 2016

For the past four years I've been writing a historical novel set in the Iron Age. It is inspired by the amazing journey of Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek who was the first Mediterranean (as far as we know) to circumnavigate Britain. He wrote a book called On the Ocean, which is lost, but...

A chance to write for radio

Added on 08 February 2016

My current writing project (the vast historical novel, or is it a trilogy?) is nearing completion and I have vowed that next I will write work that is small, compact and preferably oral. I have lots of ideas for radio pieces, and it's a medium I'd love to explore, but I'm an inexperience...

Into the Forest is selling out

Added on 15 January 2016

If you don't yet have a copy of Into the Forest, the beautiful anthology of tree poems that Saraband Books helped me to create, you had better get one before it's too late. I have six left but the distributor has run out, which means that all the copies that exist are out there on sale somew...

Writing retreat

Added on 18 December 2015

I will be leading a creative writing retreat on Tanera Mor, in the Summer Isles, immediately before the Ullapool Book Festival in early May 2016. To find out more see here.

Creative Scotland bursary

Added on 01 December 2015

I am currently the proud recipient of a bursary from Creative Scotland, to enable me to devote serious time, energy and creative focus to my current writing project. This is a historical novel, the working title for which is The Stone Stories. It is long, and in three parts - it will quite possibly ...