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New title – The Pumpkin Season – Wrecking Ball Press – publication date: 2021
Book Launch – Submarine Spies and the Unspeakable Thing – Sept 2020
Book launch – The Last Big One – Cardiff Metropolitan University and Whitchurch High School – Thursday 5th July 2018
Publishing: The Last Big One – fiction for young adults – Clint Williams things his life is tough – it’s just about to get a lot lost worse – can he fix things with a horse?
Publishing: The Bus Stop at the End of the World – an amazing story about the world’s most mysterious bus stop – publication due in 2017 with Gomer Press.
World Book Day –, Merthyr Tydfil – 2 March 2017
Publishing Steve’s Dreams: Steve and the Singing Pirates – 2nd in the fabulous ‘Steve’s Dreams’ series – 2014 and 2016 with Firefly Press.
Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival – Cardiff Dream Walk – Saturday March 28th 2016 – a walk through downtown Cardiff in the company of Steve the dreamer.
Biggest Book Show in the World – Swansea Grand Theatre – February 22nd 2016
BBC Radio Wales: The Big Welsh Idea – a day of features on innovation and invention for BBC Wales (writer/presenter) – Feb 19th 2015.
Cardiff Children’s literature festival – March 2015
World Book Day – Spread the Word Literature Festival March 2015 – Merthyr Tydfil schools.
National Association of Writers in Education Conference – 2015 – presentation: Bad Boys – inspiring teenage writers.
Summer term 2015 – Whitchurch High School, Cardiff, literature festival and workshops for years 8 and 9. Return visit.
Steve’s Dreams: Steve and the Sabre Tooth Tiger – Firefly Press 2014.
Space-time-machine-and-monster – science fiction festival at Newport’s Riverside Centre – Friday 18th and Saturday 19th October – presentation: The Scariness of South Wales. http://www.literaturewales.org/space-time-machine-and-monster/
Tonyrefail Literature Festival – October 2014
Mold and Wrexham Libraries – October 2014
Penarth Book Festival – October 2014
Penfro Book Festival – September 2014
Dynefor Literature Festival – May 2014
Firefly Press launch – June 1st 2013, Hay on Wye literature festival.
Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival – March 2013 – the Rugby Zombies hit Cardiff on Saturday March 23rd. Join us for a Zombie Walk through central Cardiff.
Publishing: Steve’s Dreams – new children’s book due out in spring 2014 with a brand new publisher – Firefly Press.
Developing Dylan – 2013-14 workshops for schools celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth organised by Literature Wales.
Seaweed and the Ring – New release – June 2013, free multimedia I book written in collaboration with the children of Dunvant Junior school: an incredible team-written, multi-platform, Swansea-based extravaganza. Go to https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/seaweed-and-the-ring/id638265836?mt=11 for your free copy.
Pennar Junior School – Pembroke Dock: story and scriptwriting workshops for junior school children celebrating the upcoming bi-centenary of Pembroke Dock – Nov 2013.
Stamford Junior School, Lincolnshire – in preparation for writing week a special series of creative writing workshops for junior school children – Nov 2013.
Firefly Press launch – June 1st 2013, Hay on Wye literature festival.
Publishing: The Last International – the final instalment of ‘The Rugby Zombies’ trilogy. Publication date October 2012.
Pembrokeshire Teacher Training – fiction for fidgeters – winter term 2012.
The Works – Ebbw Vale – Performance of workshoped piece – ‘Child In Time’ – July 6th 2012.
The Haven Literary Festival – workshop and presentation – June 6th 2012.
Publishing: Number 2 – Second instalment of The Rugby Zombies – Gomer Press – publication date – Sept 2011
Newport, Gwent, National Children’s Book Week , Oct 5 2011.
Windsor Bookshop – Penarth – book-signing, Oct 1 2011.
Atlantic College, Saint Donat’s, Sept 26,27,28 Human Interaction Conference – creative writing workshops for year 12 students 2011.
PenFRO literary festival – Sunday 18 Sept – 2011.
Roald Dahl Day workshop, Cardiff, Sept 10 (Literature Wales) – 2011.
Allayn’s Junior School, Dulwich, Sep 1, inset day workshop for teaching staff 2011.
Tasker Millward Comprehensive, Pembrokeshire, summer term, script writing workshops for all year 7 students developing material for the Cultural Olympiad project at St David’s, Pembrokeshire. 2011.
Ysgol Bro Gwaun Comprehensive, Pembrokeshire, Summer term, script writing workshops for years 7 and 8 developing material for the Cultural Olympiad project at St David’s Pembrokeshire. 2011.
Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School, Bristol, February, Rugby Zombies writing seminar for year 7 2011.
The Priest The Badger and The Little Green Men From Mars. BBC Radio 4 February 17 2011. The story of Lionel Fanthorpe, the world’s most prolific science fiction writer brought to life.
Publishing: The Rugby Zombies– Children’s story – Gomer Press, publication 2010.
Straight Talk – a play. Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Tuesday 17th November 2009; Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Wednesday 18th Nov, Riverfront, Newport – Thursday 19th November. A cop and his snout meet on a park bench. The cop is enticed into a magical world where fact and fiction blur and his dream (to become a good cop) becomes true.
Short story Hurry On Sundown– reading – BBC Radio 4 TX October 1st 2009 – a time travel tale from 1969 and today.