News and Events

The exhibition, Nuclear Bunker: A Creative Archive, showcasing words, photographs and artwork from a project I co-ran with Sarah Jackson, is on display at Worksop library until 17 July.

On 2 August, I’m leading a day-course on 80 Years of the Atomic Age: Nuclear Stories on Page and Screen at Broadway Cinema. As we approach the 80th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is an opportunity to reflect on the stories we tell about what it means to live in a nuclear age.

After a year away from teaching, I’m excited to be teaching a six-week course, On Page and Screen: Adaptations of Literature in Recent Film, at Broadway cinema, from 9 May to 20 June. If you’re in Nottingham, please do sign up and come along.

I’m thrilled to have been accepted for membership of the Atomic Photographers’ Guild. You can view a selection of my photos of Nottingham War Rooms nuclear bunker on my APG homepage.

Giving a keynote talk, ‘Of Endings and Beginnings: The Stories We Tell About the Nuclear Age,’ for Christian CND’s annual conference on 19 October, 2024.

Launching Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves Publishing) on 23 Sept, 2024

Introducing a 40th anniversary screening of landmark BBC nuclear film Threads at a packed Broadway cinema, Nottingham on 23 Sept, 2024

Artwork by Ganna Bielcheva for my short fiction, ‘Etcetera: Annotations to the Counter Room Inventory’, from the exhibition accompanying the launch of Bunker.

Interviewed on ITN Central News about Nottingham’s secret government nuclear bunker
Interviewed by BBC Radio Nottingham about Nottingham’s secret government nuclear bunker
Talking about the literature of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos for the Los Alamos Historical Society on 8 Feb, 2022