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I am delighted to congratulate School Manager Holly Goose on the launch today of the first MKCW Franchise School,  Essex Creative Writing — ECW.  Our new franchise program allows us to reach far more writers and literature enthusiasts  and ensures they can easily access MKCW courses and mentorships and our support with writers’ goals in publishing.   ECW will offer online courses from today and in-person courses will be introduced later in 2025.  I am sure Holly would love to hear from you! Further franchise schools are coming soon!

Please check out http://www.essexcreativewriting.com

I am delighted to announce that Penniless Publications will shortly release my new collection of stories. Several of these were published over the last few years in various magazines. I have also included 3 new tales. I hope you all enjoy the book. Do let me know what you think!

Singsong is available to pre-order at the MKCW shop and can be ordered at your local bookshop/online.

It will be available to buy from 6th December 2024.

Singsong is published by Penniless Press, Warrington, UK.

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new short story ‘Singsong’ with Singapore-based online magazine The Eunoia Review. You can read ‘Singsong’ below.

Let me know what you think!

‘Singsong’. The Eunoia Review.     (April 2024): Online. Read here

I am delighted to announce the launch of my 5th book, Schoolboy, on 15th November 2023 by Penniless Press, UK. You can now pre-order the title below.

About Schoolboy

At top of a hill, a schoolboy awaits the battered yellow school bus that will bring him to his first day of secondary school. He is full of hopes, dreams and excitement, sporting a beret and pony-tail, along with a fresh blue uniform. He tries to ignore his tearful mother looking on from the window. He does not know the bus carries a diverse cast of villains, with a catalogue of tactics to relieve the tedium of teenage angst far removed from today’s sanitised contemporary world. Schoolboy is published by Penniless Press Publications, UK.

Pre-order here for dispatch November 15th 2023

I am delighted to congratulate School Writer Fidelma Healy-Eames on the publication of her book The Gifted Learner: How to Help ( Pavilion). Fidelma will be discussing her book in Galway on 3rd February. See details below.