All Outputs (7)

Iter II (2024)
Book Chapter

We have a family funeral in Telford.

“The only good thing about that place,” someone says, “is the road out.”

Iter II is a hybrid essay, combing teaching notes and prompts, flash fiction and critical reflection in the form of personal essay and... Read More about Iter II.

‘But what are they?’: Zine-making and invitational creative practice in an undergraduate Creative Writing class inspired by the work of Lynda Barry (2022)
Journal Article

This illustrated article offers a record of work done for a third-year undergraduate module called Creative Writing and the Self, as part of the Creative and Professional Writing programme at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in the aut... Read More about ‘But what are they?’: Zine-making and invitational creative practice in an undergraduate Creative Writing class inspired by the work of Lynda Barry.

Ground level: Questions of how to live and where to live in Alexander Baron's London novels (2019)
Book Chapter

Everything is provisional here. Nothing is grounded..." runs a commentary from Iain Sinclair on twenty-first century Hackney. This chapter discusses the London novels of Alexander Baron in the context of current and historic London housing crises and... Read More about Ground level: Questions of how to live and where to live in Alexander Baron's London novels.

The Cut (2017)
Book

The Cut is a novella, commissioned as part of The Peirene Press Peirene Now! series - fiction made in reaction to contemporary events. This work is set around the 2016 EU referendum and focusses on a relationship between labourer and ex-boxer Cairo J... Read More about The Cut.

"The young men of the nation": Alexander Baron and urban working class masculinity (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the young men characters of the East London novelist, Alexander Baron, in his novels of the Second World War, of post-war London and his historical novel, King Dido, set in the East End in the years before World War One. I exam... Read More about "The young men of the nation": Alexander Baron and urban working class masculinity.

Iron Towns (2016)
Book

Welcome to the Iron Towns, a fictional region in the English midlands. One of the cradles of the industrial revolution, now in seeming permanent decline. The novel gives a portrait of the region, its communities and folklore and follows the beleaguer... Read More about Iron Towns.

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher (2012)
Book

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher tells the story of Sean Bull, nine years old when Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979. Set in Dudley in the industrial midlands across the 1980s and in the twenty-first century, the story follows the Bull family as... Read More about How I Killed Margaret Thatcher.