Writing in Publications
I am a writer of creative fiction: stories, short & longer. Also non-fiction, poems, a travel journal, planned novel. More recently flash fiction, which is fun.
Inspiration comes from many places: walks in wild landscapes like the Highlands of Scotland; myth, memory, music, images - mine & others'.
I'm most interested in themes around transformation & renewal: people, treasure - the rescued, the lost.
Here are some of my published short stories, to be found in anthologies/ magazines (most recent 1st):
Non-fiction
'Thirty Years After...' Stories of Cancer and Hope, Kevin Donaghy 2023
Fiction
'A Wolf For Breakfast' - Ten, a Fife Writes anthology 2024
'To Take A Wolf's Paw' - Shorts online magazine, Summer 2021
'Audition On Witchie Knowe' - Whae Did It? * 2020
'Bernadette's Wings' - 5th Birthday Anthology * 2019
'The Witness' - It's All in the Past * 2019
'Window In December' - A Whole Lot of Love * 2018
'No Mad Dance' - Dragons Can Be Darlings
& Other Stories* 2017
The above * titles group anthologies by Kelso Writers.
For published poems, please see Poems page.