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Today, be entertained by the vast swathes of human emotion on display at PassiveAggressiveNotes.com Here are my favourites: #1. The Saddest Person In The World I’m always impressed by such effective emotional blackmail. It’s not for amateurs. #2. BABIES??????????????? It is a big question, no doubt about that. But I do wonder whether that many question marks were really necessary. #3. Elaine’s Food I have never experienced the unbearable pain of having someone eat food I left in the office…

It’s always exciting to have a piece of writing in an anthology or literary magazine, whether in print or online. But I’ve also been involved in some fun and inspirational projects that were a little more unconventional. These are my favourites. #1. Abe’s Penny Abe’s Penny is an art project and literary magazine in the form of postcards. The editors, Anna and Tess, pair up writers and artists to create four postcards that are sent out to subscribers – four…

Offline February is over, and I am back online! Observe this visual representation of being back on Facebook/Twitter: I missed reading about people’s lives as lived online, but I kept myself busy. Things I did: Listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop. Wrote a short story for Algebra, the new lit-mag app from the Tramway. Read eight books (mostly trashy). Had new stories/poems published in Parcel, Gertrude, and Frostwriting. Found the notes my father made for a novel he never wrote. Went on a…

Fractured West Issue 2 is launching this Sunday! RSVP on Facebook

I’ll mostly be offline through February. I’m not making a grand statement on how social networking affects creativity/life, just want to get my head down and do some work. I’m already looking forward to seeing what everyone’s been up to when I get back – I’ll miss hearing about your fictions, breakups and adventures. If you’re up to anything exciting, let me know in a comment to cheer me up in March!

If you’ve never lived in Europe, you probably don’t know what Eurovision is. In short: it’s an annual Europe-wide singing contest. Each participating country chooses a performer, and then they all get together for one huge horrendous performance-fest and multi-language voting. It’s ludicrous, over-the-top, and a political farce. And yet there’s something appealing about it. There are many things to love about Eurovision: the so-bad-they’re- good songs, the tragic attempts at costumes and choreography, and – my favourite – the…