This issue

I have a story in the first print issue of The Lonely Crowd, along with Alison Moore, Medbh McGuckian, Stevie Davies, Anna Metcalfe, Tom Vowler, Valerie Sirr, Jo Mazelis, Gary Raymond, Nigel Jarrett, Caitlin Thomson, Dan Coxon, Armel Dagorn, Carole Burns, Jamie Guiney, Bethany W Pope, Liam Cagney, Gregory Norminton, Kathy Miles, Steph Power, Rachel J Fenton, Rosalind Hudis, Patrick Holloway, Frederick Pollack & Clodagh O’Brien. "There is also photography from Jo Mazelis & artwork from Constantinos Andronis". 

My sincere thanks to Editor John Lavin for including "Man Who Talks to Books". The story is available to preview online for one week here and the print issue of the journal can be pre-ordered here.

Print issue

Many thanks to Editor John Lavin, Fiction Editor of Wales Arts Review, for including my fiction in the first print issue of The Lonely Crowd, available for pre-order now.

I'm delighted to be included alongside such talented fiction & poetry writers as "Alison Moore, Medbh McGuckian, Stevie Davies, Anna Metcalfe, Tom Vowler, Valerie Sirr, Jo Mazelis, Gary Raymond, Nigel Jarrett, Caitlin Thomson, Dan Coxon, Armel Dagorn, Carole Burns, Jamie Guiney, Bethany W Pope, Liam Cagney, Gregory Norminton, Kathy Miles, Steph Power, Rosalind Hudis, Patrick Holloway, Frederick Pollack & Clodagh O’Brien. There is also photography from Jo Mazelis & artwork from Constantinos Andronis."

Fore word

Before I ramble on about being the runner-up in the Dundee International Book Prize, please make do with a comic about such things and associated feelings.