Short fiction, articles, essays and other writing.

Writing beyond the stage.

Short Fiction

Big Strong Giant

In A Girl’s Guide to Fly Fishing, Reflex Press, 2019. Second place in Reflex Fiction’s Spring 2019 Flash Fiction competition and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Dig if U Will the Picture

In Purple Reign, Erbacce Press, 2019.

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The Troubles

In Flash Non-fiction Funny, Woodhall Press, 2018.

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Enduring Love, Skydive, The Troubles

Published in Flash: International Journal of Short Short Fiction, October 2016.

The Last Night

Published in The Real Story.

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A Little Dander

Published in Fictive Dream.

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Monster Love

In Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003.

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Flying

In Quickies 2: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999.

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Articles & Essays

The Short Story: Quintessentially Northern Irish?

Article in Issue 494, July 2024, Fortnight Magazine, Northern Ireland.

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Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles

Chapter on intimacy, edited by Caroline Magennis, New Horizons in Contemporary Writing, 2021.

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As a gay man, escaping the North was a matter of life and death

Article, Irish Times, April 2018.