Awards:
“The Soul That Screamed” - Winner of the Critters Writers Workshop ‘Best Anthology of 2013.’
“Legend of the Chained Oak” – Winner of Best Short award at Bram Stoker International Film Festival 2014
“Legend of the Chained Oak” – Winner of the ‘Best Horror’ award at the Portobello Film Festival 2014
“Legend of the Chained Oak” - ‘Best UK Short Film’ award at the Stoke Your Fires Film Festival 2014.
“Ta Skoulikia” – Finished in the Top 3 in the 2013 Screen-con Horror Writing Competition
“One and Free” – March 2014, Runner-up in Spring Flash Contest, Massacre Magazine.
“Only The Good Burn Bright” – Sep 2014, Winner Autumn Flash Contest, Massacre Magazine.
Shortlisted for Staffordshire Poet Laureate 2016-2018
Top Five Finalist in “Best of the Best 2015 Sweet n Sassy Book-a-holics Best Horror Author 2015” Poll
Published Books:
“The Soul That Screamed” – October 2013 (Horrified Press) Winner of the Preditors & Editors™ Readers' Poll ‘Best Anthology 2013’.
“Only The Good Burn Bright” – February 2015 (James Ward Kirk Fiction).
“What Dwells Within: A Study of Spirit Attachment” – June 2015, 6th Books
“Neverlight” – March 31st (Spectral Press).
Stageplays:
“Beige” - Performed as part of the Blackshaw Theatre New Writers Night and the Wandsworth Arts Festival, May 2015
“Beige” – Performed at Left Coast Theatre, San Francisco, May. 2015
“The Release of Theodore Marlow” – Produced/aired by Shoestring Radio Theatre, San Francisco, 2016
“The Holding” – performed by Bold As Brass productions as part of the North Staffordshire One Act contest, 2016
“The Holding” – performed as part of Wordplay by Theatrelab and Bath Spa University, January 30th, 2016
“Penkhull Paranormal” – performed as part of Leytonstone Itch Blind Readings @ All You Read Is Love, Leytonstone, 9th January, 2016.
Song and Music:
“Maude” by The Dead Certs. October 26th 2015
Published Short Stories:
“The Legend of the Chained Oak” – May 2013, Haunted magazine.
“Once a Butchers Wife” – June 22nd, 2013, Hell Whores Volume 2 (Horrified Press).
“Pride and PowerPoint” – via Kindle Self-Publishing (13/3/13).
“Florian” – August 2013, Haunted Magazine
“The Lazarus Stratum” – September 2013, Suffer Eternal vol 3 (Horrified Press).
“The Curse of Colyton” - September 2013, Suffer Eternal vol 3 (Horrified Press).
“The Fall of Silas Galloway” – September 2013, Suffer Eternal Vol 3 (Horrified Press).
“The Fall of Silas Galloway” – October 2013, Daylight Dims (Stealth Fiction)
"Gyll's Whel" - Schlock bi-monthly/Nightmare Illustrated (Horrified Press).
“The Fall of Silas Galloway” - ( Chilling Tales for Dark Nights)
“Gilbert’s Well” – February 2014, Reginald and Friends (Colin Evans Press – In aid of Acorns Children’s Hospice).
"Gyll's Whel" – June 2014, Silent Scream, (Blood Reigns Anthology).
“One and Free” – March 2014, Massacre Magazine
“Agnes” – May 2014, Serial Killers Quattuor, (James Ward Kirk Fiction).
“Kleevar – The Prophets of Profanity” – July 2014, Torched, (Nocturnal Press Publishing).
“Kleevar – The Prophets of Profanity” – November 2014, Axes of Evil Vol 2 – Rise of the Metal Gods (Morbid
Books
“Birth Of The Blackguard” – Autumn 2014, The Black Hand Supremacy (Horrified Press).
"The Heart Of The Matter" - October 2014, Sick As Fuck (Madwriter Press).
“Only The Good Burn Brightly” – September 2014, Massacre Magazine (Massacre Publishing).
“Falworth Manor” – October 2014, Flashesinthedark.com
“Kleevar – The Prophets of Profanity”, April 2015, HorrorMetalSounds.com
“A Quest For Noah” – March 1st 2016, Reginald and Friends Vol 2 (Whimsical Press).
“The Raven and The Wolf”- March 1st 2016, Reginald and Friends Vol 2 (Whimsical Press).
“Girl, Soiled,” – April 2016, Infernal Ink
Film work:
Writer and co-producer of the movie “The Legend of the Chained Oak” (Weatherer/Maynard Productions) Winner of the “Best Horror” at Portobello Film Festival, “Best Short” at The Bram Stoker International Film Festival and “Best UK Short Film” at Stoke Your Fires Film Festival 2014.
Writer – “Eloise” (Mark Mooney Productions, 2016).
Writer – “Beige” (Monkeelistens LTD, 2016).
Screenings:
“Legend Of the Chained Oak” - 3rd September 2014, Portobello Film Festival
Shown as part of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival, October 2014
Shown as part of the ‘Novella Showcase’ Television show, Michigan, 2014
Shown on 19th April 2014 @ Lulworth House, Cheadle, Staffordshire. £474 raised for the Cheadle and District Food-Bank/Cheadle Discovery Centre
Shown as part of the Phnom Penh international film festival, Cambodia, 2014.
Shown as part of the Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival, USA, 2015
Shown as part of the Molise Cinema Film Festival, Italy, 2015
Shown as part of the First International Film Festival, China, 2015
Shown as part of the Fanter Film Festival, Spain, 2015
Shown as Battle Creek's, Access Vision, Comcast Channel 16 and Lansing's Public Media Center, Comcast Channel 16
Both air at 11:00 PM, Fridays.
Comcast Channel 21 is in Haslett, Okemos, and East Lansing. And is also seen on AT&T U-Verse Channel 99 in 17 communities.
“Legend of the Chained Oak – A voice from the past” Shown as part of the Five Lamps Film Festival, March 2015
Radio and Podcasts:
“Exit” – Dark Dreams Podcast (Oct 2013).
“The Dolly Who Is My Friend” – aired as part of Signal One’s Halloween Breakfast Broadcast, Oct 30th 2015.
“The Release of Theodore Marlow” – Shoestring Theatre, San Francisco USA
Numerous interviews on BBC Radio Stoke regarding my work
Education and Public appearances:
Excel Academy, Stoke on Trent (July 2015) - 5 Creative writing workshops
“Scribe” Middlewich Literary Festival (October 2015) - Meet the Author
“Sledge-Lit” Derby (November 2015) Script workshop/Horror Panelist
City Central Library (October 2015) - Meet the Author
Cheadle Library (February 2016) - Script Workshop
Panels:
Sledge-lit - "Is Horror ready for a new golden age?" With Charles Stross, Simon Marshall Jones, Thana Niveau and Marie O' Regan
Scribefest - "Writers in the real world" with Catherine Green, Paula Manely and Gill Hoffs.
Influence:
Instigator of the “Arnold Bennett Award for Literacy.”
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Abarath
Solitude and the Storm
Signed
I
Incubation
The Watchful Eye
Hate
Against All Odds
Time Flow and the Spectral Realm
My First Horror Story
The Specimen
Meadow View
The Dolly who is my Friend
The Wanting Summer
The Withered Touch
The Raven and the Wolf
Neverlight
The Miners of Annan
A Butcher’s Wife, Indisposed
The Tragedy of the Tailor
The Thing Beneath The Bed
Clarence Milton—Vampire Hunter
That Laughing Man
Six Feet
She who Casts no Shadow
Soul, Ugly
Killing Gary
Brammerly House
Alone
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