Broken Rules and Other Stories
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Back in March I published a blog post about ‘The Americans’, the fourth story in my collection Broken Rules and Other Stories. That blog post was featured on episode 472 of Cover to Cover on Vision Australia Radio on 12 May, along with a new reading of the story itself. Listen to the podcast here,
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‘The Americans’ – the fourth story in Broken Rules and Other Stories – is an homage to the annual summer holidays I used to take with my parents when I was growing up. We would spend two weeks every year in a seaside location, usually in the UK. For many years Bournemouth, on the south
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I participated in two sessions at last year’s Australian Short Story Festival:Masculinity with Wayne Marshall, Barry Lee Thompson and Dominic Carew, on Saturday 6 November 2021.Writing The Family with Barry Lee Thompson and Katherine Tamiko Arguile, on Sunday 7 November 2021. Videos of the sessions are available for a limited time, below: For all the
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In December 2013, London’s Dazed magazine launched a competition calling for short stories ‘based on surveillance culture’. I’d long been a fan of the magazine, and was drawn to the theme, so thought I’d give it a whirl. I wanted to look at online surveillance, privacy and metadata, and concerns around the trails and traces
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I grew up in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, where the government pursued and actively encouraged intolerance and hostility towards same-sex attraction. A culmination of the Tories’ damaging agenda was Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which forbade local authorities from promoting homosexuality, or from teaching its acceptability in maintained schools. The clause wasn’t repealed until
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