Publications Forthcoming debut novel – The Tin-Kin, will be published by Duckworth, Spring 2009 1. Burns, (an early chapter from The Tin-Kin) was published in the anthology Outside of a Dog CHROMA (Edinburgh, 2006) 2. Is the Viking in you Gasping for Attention? A non-fiction article published in The New Shetlander, issue 234 Awards and Shortlists 1. Dec 2007 – Winner of a Scottish Arts Council & National Library of Scotland Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship for 2008 2. 2006 - Winner of the New Writing Ventures Award for fiction with Burns 3. 2006 - Shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize with Italian Verbs 4. 2001 - Shortlisted for a David St Thomas Charitable Trust competition on people and places with Diamond Geezer Other Information 2008-9, Honorary Writer in Residence for the University of Glasgow’s Department of French 2007-8, Co-tutoring workshops on creative writing in schools and libraries in Glasgow In 2005, a workshop with voluntary sector workers in Glasgow as part of Glasgow 2020, collaborating on a short story, Frosted Fruits, as part of the ‘Project for Mass Imagination’ Back to Site