Very honoured to be in this compendious guide to the Oulipo with a selection from The Tome of Commencement, my spreadsheet translation of the Book of Genesis. Enormous thanks to Phlip Terry for putting me in it. Out now on Penguin Books.

This is an excellent anthology, which I'm very happy to be in, dedicated to the late Pete Shelley, edited by Andrew Gallix, Tomoé  Hill and C.D. Rose and published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Full list of contributors: Emma Bolland, Victoria Briggs, Tobias Carroll, Shane Jesse Christmass, David Collard, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Lara Alonso Corona, Cathleen Davies, Jeremy Dixon, Sharron Duggal, Wendy Erskine, Gerard Evans, Javi Fedrick, Mark Fiddes, Andrew Gallix, Meave Haughey, Tomoé Hill, Richard V. Hirst, David Holzer, Andrew Hook, Tom Jenks, Jonathan Kemp, Luke Kennard, Mark Leahy, Neil Nixon, Russell Persson, Hette Phillips, Julie Reverb, C.D. Rose, Lee Rourke, Germán Sierra, Beach Sloth, NJ Stallard, Rob Walton.

New micro fiction piece in the excellent Okay Donkey, featuring bears, apples, cream and disposable plastic gloves.

Re-purposing Protect and Survive with SJ Fowler for the European Camarade, Manchester, April 2019.

I've got a new prose piece in Queen Mob's Teahouse, called 'The Baby'. It's a mixture of written and found text, 9 sections, each exactly 111 words. 

The Pines​ - short story in US journal Ploughshares.

Volumes six and 7 of Marjorie are now available in print form. Marjorie is a fauxbot tweeting daily. Volume 6 is tweets 501 - 600 and volume 7 tweets 601 - 700. Marjorie is not long for this world: she will cease operations at 800 tweets, which will happen very soon. All 8 volumes will then be available in commemoration.

New book of prose, short and shorter, out now on if p then q.

A new story in The Manchester Review, accompanied by this beautiful artwork. I seem to mention rhubarb a lot (see here, here and here), but as Freud nearly said, sometimes a stick of rhubarb is just a stick of rhubarb. Custard, however, is another matter entirely.

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I've had two new pieces published online recently: Cockatiels at Disclaimer Mag and Rabbit at The Wild Hunt. Both of these pieces result from an approach to writing I'm using more and more, utilising found material as I have done before, but less schematically, intereweaving it with written material to create something that is both and neither. I don't know where I'll go with it next, but it feels like a way forward. Maybe I'll write about something other than animals.