I became a resident of Naked City

Naked City?  Do I have to get naked?  Or is it just some kind of metaphor for the process of stripping yourself bare by reading your writing in front of strangers? I am a stranger in my own city.  I knew this when I entered The Warhorse Cafe for the first time and could only…

The Waking: A Poem by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

As promised, this post contains a poem from two-time Northern Writers’ Award winner, and my first creative writing professor, Carolyn Jess-Cooke.  You can also read the draft opening of my novel-in-progress on her blog!  (Just follow this link) Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and received a BA, MA (Creative Writing), and a…

I won a Northern Writers’ Award!

I am honored and amazed to announce that I have won a Northern Writers’ Award! The awards were established in 2000 by New Writing North.  If you are a writer or someone with a strong literary interest living in the northeast of England, you will undoubtedly have heard of NWN.  They work to support writers…