I'm currently working on ideas for three short story collections (PTSD, obviously - Post Thesis Submission Date). The reason for this sudden surge of activity is odd; writing my dissertation. In many ways the PhD has proved to be a creative release that has inspired a lot of my fiction - it doesn't hurt that the thesis centred around the recurrence of the Gothic home in contemporary Ireland. As I've been working on it, I've found that conducting resarch for different chapters

I've been quiet for a while, due to the pressure of academic writing and research. However, the most recent stage of my project has involved going back to the scene of my first published short story - 'Looking for Wildgoose Lodge' (Impossible Spaces, Hic Dragones 2013). I'm documenting the site and the variants of the story of a 200 year old agrarian atrocity as part of my PhD thesis - the final, most interesting and most difficult chapter. Returning to the scene of the crime