Category: writing

  • how not to write

    how not to write first, go to your room you must have a particular room for this, but the arrangement doesn’t have to be monogamous. look out the window at the bird eating your plums. see how the bird is not a poem, but a bird picking at fruit and shitting where it sings and…

  • octovember short story podcast: the taxi driver

    With apologies for the pause between broadcasts, here’s a new fiction podcast for you. This story began on pure observation, sitting in a gay bar in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, back in 2008. It’s going to be in a collection of my stories which I am happy to announce will be published by…

  • Cultural policy submission

    At risk of boring my remaining blog readers with bureaucratese, I’m sharing my submission to the National Cultural Policy below. I thought about screwing it up and chucking it in the Vintage bag that serves as my rubbish bin – since I just got a grant, there can be nothing wrong with the system, right?…