I’m really pleased to have had a short story published recently in Issue 2 of Wrongdoing Magazine. My story – Descent from the Cross – is adapted from a novel I’ve written which explores art and the “art world” from the perspective of seven different individuals (a curator, a restorer, an art student, and so…
Writing
Closing a window
In addition to using this website as a sort of personal “web log” (a new phrase which I’ve just invented and decided to shorten to “webl” for convenience) regards my own creative writing endeavours, I thought it might also be helpful to occasionally record progress and challenges in my role as founder and Editor-in-Chief of…
Pictures of me/no one
I’ve written elsewhere about why I have no desire to write under my real name. Choosing a heteronym is easy enough, but it’s not impossible that one day I end up being asked for a headshot to accompany some work. And I obviously don’t want to share an actual picture of me for all of…
Writing with maximal attack surface
I do recognise that “MFA discourse” is a thing. It’s just not a thing that seems relevant to me. I finished my studies (in subjects far removed from creative writing) many years ago – the first in my family to go to university, graduating with a little pride and a lot of debt – and…
OMG, I started a literary journal by mistake!!
… would be the title of this article if it was a clickbaity youtube video. Which it’s not. It wasn’t a mistake as such. I’ve been daydreaming about starting a literary journal on and off for a long time, but over the past six months – where it feels like I’ve done almost nothing but…
(non-)adventures in (non-)publishing
I’ve been writing fiction, on and off, for roughly two decades now. (I know, I know, I don’t look old enough. Thank you for your kind words.) But 2021 – for whatever reason – is the first time I’ve ever made any effort to actually, you know, get my work published. I’ve got the Duotrope…
Heteronym(s)
I’m not ashamed to admit it. If there is ever a choice to be made with my art, I will always lean towards the pretentious option. (You can tell this is true because I just used the phrase “my art” in the sentence above.) So while I create under a pseudonym, strictly speaking I have…