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  • On how short a short story can possibly get

    27/01/2026|THEATRE, THINGS I'VE READ, WRITING PROCESS, AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL, FICTION, OUTPUT, SHARING SOME DOTS|

    “I saw! I know!” "He knows! Don't go home!"

  • On the brain being mostly right, then a little wrong

    18/11/2025|SHARING SOME DOTS, THINGS I'VE SEEN, WRITING PROCESS, AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL|

    Interestingly, I have never yet met a woman who had a good word to say about Arrival.

  • On (the joys of) negative utopias

    28/10/2025|AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL, FICTION, THINGS I'VE SEEN, WRITING PROCESS|

    You never know when you’ll read something that proves itself to be grimly, magnificently prophetic within your own lifetime.

  • On having your vichyssoise and eating it

    22/07/2025|AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL, INPUT, THINGS I'VE SEEN|

    Is Bruce Wayne, like so many of us, just plain lazy when it comes to matters of taste?

  • On having launched something special

    22/04/2025|AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL, OUTPUT, WRITING PROCESS|

    The True Voyage Is Return anthology and podcast are now live!

  • On working in a language that is not your first language

    04/06/2024|AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL, THINGS I'VE HEARD, WRITING PROCESS|

    It can be hard enough sometimes to find the right words to express yourself in your primary language - and it takes even more energy and courage to try doing it in a language you may have learned alongside, or much later in life than, acquiring your first.

  • On Japanese projects of the past, and on whose stories we can tell

    21/05/2024|AUDIO FILM & DIGITAL, FICTION, SALVAGED FROM THE ARCHIVE, SHORT STORIES, THEATRE, WRITING PROCESS|

    I’ve drawn on Japanese literature and culture a few times over the years, and I’ve been asking myself whether I would, could or should do those projects now in the same way I did them then.

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