I’m glad to announce that from November I’ll be running five monthly writing workshops for Writing Yorkshire at Experience Barnsley, which is a great museum based in Barnsley Town Hall. The workshops are suitable for anyone, whether you write poetry or prose, whether you’re experienced or new to writing. See the workshops page for dates…

I’m very pleased that I’m going to be a part of the 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, from November 7th-9th this year. I’ll be reading on the Sunday, with Chrissy Williams, Kayo Chingonyi and Jonathan Edwards, as part of the ‘New Voices’ reading.

I spent four lovely weeks here in February and March, and got lots of writing done. I’m very grateful for the fellowship that allowed me this time to focus on my work and to my fellow fellows (!) for their encouragement and support. If you fancy applying, there are contact details here.

I’ll be running a free workshop on October 19th at the Stanley and Audrey Burton gallery at Leeds university. Follow the linkhttp://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/410/event/152/  to read more and book

I’m delighted to be one of the fourteen poets and will be reading at the event tomorrow: As part of the university’s Animal Gaze project, fourteen Sheffield poets have been specially commissioned to write fourteen-line poems about animals. Come along and hear them in all their natural habitat – the SIA Gallery, alongside paintings and…

  Glad to have my poem A Contingency Plan in Magma 56 and to have read at the joyful launch at the Troubadour.  

The secrecy is over! I was the winner of the Andrew Waterhouse Prize at the 2013 Northern Writers’ Awards, you can read all about it here.

This is an ongoing project as part of my residency at Bank Street Arts. Various writers and artists are responding to a single square of the A-Z map of Sheffield and the results are being showcased here.