February 2026: I’m pleased to have had my contract extended at the University of Galway until the end of April. These are some of the wonderful books I’ll be teaching: Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home and Monisha Radesh’s Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure.
January, 2026: I’m pleased to receive an update from the editor, Prof. Arthur Redding, that The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press), to which I have contributed a chapter, is now in production. My chapter is, ‘What Might Be Going to Have Been: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, Postmodernism and the Late Cold War.’ CUP list the publication date as October this year.
November, 2025: my short story, ‘Surface Tension,’ previously highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize, has been published in the New Nottingham Journal.
The exhibition I co-curated with Sarah Jackson, Nuclear Bunker: A Creative Archive, has moved on to Arnold library, where it is showing from 3rd September to 1st October, 2025.
1st September, 2025: I’m excited to have started a six-month post as a Lecturer in English at the University of Galway. I will be working here until the end of February 2026.
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, 2025.
On 2 August, 2025, 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.
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.
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