I was thrilled to be asked to be one of four guest contributors to Matter 12, a beautifully produced anthology of selected work from Sheffield Hallam’s Creative Writing MA. My story ‘Bride or Groom?’ takes a wry look at marriage and gender equality.
You can buy the anthology online at makingwritingmatter.co.uk
My story, Number 40, is included in Picador’s Book of 40, published to celebrate their 40th birthday. I am thrilled to be amongst Picador’s extraordinary list of writers (the book includes work by Jackie Kay, John Banville, Alice Sebold and Graham Swift, amongst others). You can buy the book from all good bookstores (!), or you can read my story on Picador’s blog.
Central line Stories, a collection of the writing I created in collaboration with London Underground staff during my residency on the Central line, includes two new short stories, Early Turn and Talking About The Weather, inspired by conversations with Central line drivers. You can download the stories as text and audio files from Art on the Underground’s website.
I have a story called Leaving in Route’s latest anthology, Book At Bedtime.
My story, Staying Together is in Roads Ahead, an anthology of short stories by young regional writers, edited by Catherine O’Flynn, published by Tindal Street Press.
I had a story called Uniform published in Monsoon Press’s anthology Behind the Hijab earlier this year.
You can read my story Last Christmas online. It was published in the monthly journal Litro, 100,000 of which were given away free in December 2008.
Some other short fiction has been published in the beautifully produced, but quite hard to find online, Phoenix magazine, which is the arts magazine for Imperial College, London; on Pulp.Net, in Wonderwall (Route 16) and Concertina (Pen & Inc Press), and featured on Tales of the Decongested.
My short story Rainbows Seen From The Air Are Complete Circles (Route 16) was described in Aesthetica magazine as … a vivid and original piece about how we should never judge by appearances, and it is ultimately about finding kindness in unexpected places.
Click here to read the first part of that story.