We need writing that serves up the whole of life, in the smallest microcosms maybe, single truths told in single voices, but told in the full - the ugly and the beautiful; the hopeful and the despairing; the angry and the aspiring; that wrings art, words, life itself until they offer up every last secret, every hidden pain, every unexpected and delightful pleasure; that gives life in the full. Free from judgement. Free from taboo. Free from pretence.
I write novels, short stories, and poetry in an effort to provide writing that does just that.
I also perform poetry and short stories across the UK. I won the Hammer and Tongue poetry slam in Oxford in March 2012 and was a winner of Literary Death Match in 2010. I have run Not the Oxford Literary Festival for three years and host the spoken word show The New Libertines which has played to sell-out crowds at festivals across the UK.
