Falling Out the Right Tree

Originally publishing in Catflap magazine (November 2021) There were two reasons I became a champion tree climber as a child. Firstly, because I loved it, the shapes of the branches…

January 11, 2022August 22, 2022

Should I Be Writing at a Time Like This?

For every person I’ve met proclaiming the necessity for real art, I’ve met at least two more people too terrified to share their passion. Asking a young writer, still trying to find their voice in a world of such infinite mass media and “content”, to compare themselves to James Baldwin… That seems unfair. Either shape a generation or shut up? Should we be joking at a time like this?

February 1, 2017January 11, 2022

Soil

My mother says when her hands are inside the soil that is how she goes to church. It took me two decades to really understand. It took me finding my…