Short Stories 2025
I love short stories, and have published many in a wide range of anthologies and magazines. Several have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. My latest story, Mid Century Modern, was published in in the Floodgate Press anthology Night Time Economy. My next story will be broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in September 2025.
If you’d like to learn story writing with me, I have a new course for 2025, WRITE A LONG SHORT STORY IN FIVE WEEKS, which starts in September 2025
MRS ROBINSON – five episodes on BBC Radio 4 from September 2025
At the height of a TB epidemic, Lydia Robinson lives on her remote North Yorkshire estate, with four children and a preacher husband. Mr Robinson has decreed that the family isolate themselves, in fear of the sickness.
Their only company? Gloomy Anne Brontë, governess to the children.
That is, until Anne’s dissolute brother, Branwell, arrives…
Mrs Robinson’s name and story partly inspired the film, The Graduate.
This five-part original fiction is read by Anne-Marie Duff.
DAYS OF THE DEAD
is a dark story about a weekend to Whitby that goes horribly wrong for a group of middle-aged, middle-class, sexually-frustrated old friends. It is published in The Manchester Review here.
DESIRE
is an anthology of ‘100 of Literature’s Sexiest Stories’, as chosen by the book’s editor, Mariella Frostrup. My story, PULL, is about the goings-on at a coastal village fete.
AN OPEN LETTER TO BEES
is a futuristic tale about the impact of climate change, in which the bees disappear. Commissioned by, and broadcast on, BBC Radio 4.
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