Acollection of 56 very short fictions -  Find out more about the book >>>

Writing Short Stories:
A Writers & Artists Companion
(Bloomsbury, Dec 2014)
Courttia Newland and Tania Hershman
  
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the white road and other stories
(salt modern fiction, 2008)
 
Commended, Orange Award for New Writers, 2009.

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The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop's Modern Fables
(Stone Skin Press, 2012)


 My short story, The Scientist and the Tiger, is included in this anthology of 21st century Aesop's fables: 70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to this classic format. Zombies, dog-men and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes and cockroaches. Parables ranging from the punchy to the evocative, the wry to the disturbing, explore eternal human foibles, as displaced onto lemmings, trout, and racing cars. But beware— in these terse explorations of desire, envy, and power, certitude isn’t always as clear as it looks. Authors include… Robert Jackson Bennett, Jason L. Blair, Jesse Bullington, Jim Demonakos, Ray Fawkes, Matt Forbeck, Ed Greenwood, Dave Gross, Jonathan L. Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, John Kovalic, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Adam Marek, Sandy Petersen, JT Petty, Wena Poon, Richard Scarsbrook, Ekaterina Sedia, Greg Stafford, Chuck Wendig, Jim Zubkavich & more... More information here>>>

Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud
(Salt Publishing, 2012)


 My short story, What Do You Do, is included in this anthology edited by Jonathan Taylor of stories designed to be read aloud -  together with stories by Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Blake Morrison, Louis De Bernières, Adele Parks, Kate Pullinger, Adam Roberts, Michelene Wandor, Vanessa Gebbie, Judith Allnatt, Jo Baker, David Belbin, Panos Karnezis, Jane Holland, Gemma Seltzer, Ailsa Cox and Will Buckingham and others... More information here>>>


STILL
(Negative Press, 2012)


 My short story, Switchgirls,was commissioned by photographer Roelof Bakker for an anthology of stories inspired by his photographs of vacant spaces in Hornsey, together with stories by Richard Beard, Andrew Blackman, SJ Butler, Myriam Frey, SL Grey, James Higgerson, Justin Hill, Nicholas Hogg, Ava Homa, Aamer Hussein, Nina Killham, Deborah Klaassen, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Claire Massey, Jan Van Mersbergen, Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende, James Miller, Mark Piggott, Mary Rechner, David Rose, Nicholas Royle, Preeta Samarasan, Jan Woolf, Evie Wyld and Xu Xi.. More information here>>>


Litmus
(Comma Press, 2011)
Now available for the Kindle !
 
My short story, We Are All Made of Protein But Some of Us Glow More Than Others, was commissioned for Comma Press' second science-inspired fiction anthology, Litmus, together with stories by Adam Marek, Alison MacLeod, Annie Clarkson, Stella Duffy, Kate Clanchy and more. More information here>>>

short circuit: a guide to the art of the short story
(salt modern fiction, 2010)
 
 My essay on the art of flash fiction, "Art Breathes from Containment: The Delights of the Shortest Fiction or The Very Short Story That Could" is published in this excellent book, alongside fascinating contributions from many prize-winning short story writers. Buy the book and visit TheArtoftheShortStory.com for excerpts and reviews.

Slightly Peculiar Love Stories
(Rosa Mira Books, 2011)
 
 My flash stories Dangerous Shoes, Think of Icebergs, Plaits and Transparent, are published in the excellent ebook, Slightly Peculiar Love Stories, alongside such fabulous authors as Craig Cliff, Tim Jones and Alex Epstein. More information here>>

On The Clock: Contemporary Short Stories About Work
(Bottom Dog Press, 2010)
 
My short story Evie and the Arfids is republished in the excellent book of stories about work. More information here>>

Exposure
(Cinnamon Press, 2010)
 
 My flash story, Straight Up, is included in Exposure,  an anthology or prose poetry and microfiction, in the great company of Sarah Hilary, Catherine Smith, Valerie O'Riordan, Angela Readman and Jo Cannon. Buy it now
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100 stories for haiti
(bridge house publishing, 2010)
 
 My flash story, Mugs is included in 100 Stories for Haiti,  a wonderful anthology put together in a few weeks in order to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Buy it now and visit 100StoriesforHaiti.org for more about the book.

riffing on strings:  creative writing inspired by string theory
(scriblerus press, 2008)
 
My flash story, Secrets, is published in this anthology inspired by String Theory, from Scriblerus Press. Buy it from the Book Depository, or ask your local book shop to order it for you.

ideas above our station
(route publishing, 2006)
 
  On A Roll was published in Route's Ideas Above Our Station anthology. Buy a copy from Route or The Book Depository
  

wonderwall
(route publishing, 2005)
 
The White Road was published in Route's Ideas Above Our Station anthology. Buy a copy from Route or The Book Depository