DWAMS
My debut poetry collection published April 2024. Click on the cover to order from Tapsalteerie.
My prose and poetry have been published in national magazines including Stand, Gutter, New Writing Scotland, Northwords Now, The Interpreter's House and Causeway/Cabhsair.
I was the 2022-2023 Scots Scriever, supported by the National Library of Scotland and Creative Scotland. Previously selected by the Scottish Book Trust for the 2018 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship to work on new projects inspired by the life and career of Scottish fashion designer Bill Gibb. I visited Grez-sur-Loing in November 2018 as part of this fellowship. Work from this project was shown as part of a spoken-word film and exhibition for the 2019 Look Again Festival in Aberdeen, which was re-exhibited in Aberdeen Art Gallery in 2020-2021 alongside a podcast available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Notable publications (those in bold can be read online):
‘Bastard Bairn’ in Fierce Salvage: A Queer Words Anthology (404 Ink, January 2025)
‘Tooth Fairy’ in Eemis Stane, Issue 3, July 2024
DWAMS (Tapsalteerie, April 2024)
‘Snug Bar’ and ‘Dwams’ in The Press and Journal, March 2024
‘Beyond the Sea’, commissioned as part of Scottish Book Trust’s Scotland’s Stories: Adventure (November, 2023). In print and online.
‘Dads’ in Gutter 28, August 2023
Two poems and accompanying article in Discover magazine (National Library of Scotland, June 2023)
Three poems in Tales fae the Doric Side (Doric Books, February 2023)
Three poems in Northwords Now, Issue 43, Spring/Summer 2022
‘Evening Departure at Footdee’ in Gutter 25, February 2022
Doric translation of ‘At Sherrifmuir’ in Look, Breathe: Poems and Translations by Chris Powici and Friends (Red Squirrel Press, January 2022)
‘Ketea’ in Dinna Mess wi the Popo & Other Stories of North-East Scotland (The Elphinstone Institute, November 2021)
‘Drover’, commissioned for the Scottish Poetry Library’s Walter Scott 250 celebrations, September 2021
‘Queen of Queens’ for V&A Dundee along with an accompanying article, June 2021
‘Hoast’, commissioned for the Scots in Schools website, May 2020
‘Standing Stone’ in Northwords Now, Issue 38, Autumn 2019
‘Oriental Touch’ and ‘The Bill Gibb Line’ poems in Gutter 20, August 2019
Two Bill Gibb-inspired poems in Causeway/Cabhsair, May 2019
‘Click Here for Translation’ commissioned by Lux Scotland, March 2019
'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' in We Were Always Here: a #QueerWords Anthology (Scotland: 404 Ink), January 2019. Order here.
Nevertheless: Sparkian Tales in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe: 'amaBooks), October 2018
'World View' in Causeway/Cabhsair, May 2018
'Genesis' in Gutter 17, January 2018
Opening chapter of Quines at Sea in Northwords Now, Issue 34, September 2017
Three scenes, three poems and a prose piece in The Granite Mile ed. by Peter Arnott (Aberdeen University Press, May 2017)
An excerpt from Chapter 4 of Quines at Sea in Gutter 16, February 2017
'A Story for Mrs Grey' in Causeway/Cabhsair 7.2, January 2017
'Weir of Hermiston' in The Interpreter's House 61, February 2016
'Clype' in Causeway/Cabhsair 6.2, December 2015
'Gyurd' on Long Story, Short, November 2015
'Starnie' in Stand magazine, Issue 13(3), October 2015
'Día de los Muertos' in Pushing Out the Boat 13, April 2015
'On a Painting by Sang Jianguo' in Gutter 12, February 2015
'Caul Iron', in Causeway/Cabhsair 5.2, December 2014
'1972' in Out There (Glasgow: Freight, 2014)
'Ketea' in Northwords Now, Issue 27, July 2014
'Cracked' in Leopard Magazine, May 2014
'The Struldbrugs' in New Writing Scotland 31 (Glasgow: ASLS, 2013)
Out Now
Nevertheless: Sparkian Tales in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe: amaBooks) is available from African Books Collective in print and e-formats. This collection of short fiction was supported by Creative Scotland and the National Library of Scotland in celebration of Muriel Spark’s centenary in 2018.