A Selection of Recent and Past publications are listed here.

The Paperboats Writers E-Zine.

Paperboats Writers are a collective of writers focussed on Nature and Environment at a time of climate and ecological breakdown.

The Paperboats Zine is published online and features ‘writing with a Scottish base but a global outlook, and looks to affirm the astonishing life of this planet, and how its future might yet be shaped.’

My essays ‘Sycamore’ and ‘elm is me and I am elm’ feature in Issue 2 and 5 of the zine.

Archipelago 2.3 edited by Andrew McNeillie and James Macdonald Lockhart, published by Clutag Press (2024).

My essay ‘Traces’ (pp.107-115) explores the Mesolithic landscapes of the Sefton coast in Merseyside, uncovering the prehistoric footprints found in fossilised beds of ancient mud along Formby beach, reconstructing the landscapes and lives of the Mesolithic past, and considering the implications of modern day sea level rise. 

You can order Archipelago direct from Clutag Press.

Hinterland is a print magazine showcasing the best in creative nonfiction, published by the University of East Anglia.

My essay ‘From the Ground, Light’ features in Issue 14 of the magazine and explores the mining heritage of my home town set against the legacies of global warming and our continued reliance on fossil fuels. You can order the magazine here.

STRAVAIG – The online Journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics

Based on the thinking and writings of Kenneth White, the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics publishes an annual online journal of poetry, art and essays on various themes.

‘The Moor, the Sea, the Sky’ was published in Stravaig Issue 13 and explores Lewis’s moorland landscape through the work of Iain Crichton-Smith.

You can read the essay by downloading a PDF of the journal in the above links. It is a development of the shorter piece ‘Return to Lewis’, which first appeared on Elsewhere: a Journal of Place in March 2022.

Published September 2022

A cross-border, collaborative project coming out of an Aberdeen-Curtin University alliance and published by UWAP. The anthology explores four rivers that connect otherwise disparate regions through a creative and critical engagement with place.

‘The Don: A Sacred River’ takes a journey from source to sea along the River Don in Aberdeenshire, uncovering the river’s once sacred associations and exploring the ways in which they have helped to shape the geography and identity of the region.

UK readers can order a copy through Blackwells here.

Details of the UK Launch can be found here.

The Clearing is an online journal of nature, landscape and place published by Little Toller Books in Dorset and edited by Jon Woolcott.

Between Sea and Sky: Rewilding Lewis – published in July 2025 and exploring changing land use and crofting practices on Lewis from the Iron Age to the present day.

Under Scythe-like Wings – published in October 2024 and reflecting on the impacts of tourism on Orkney’s wildlife.

Luskentyre – published in August 2022 and exploring the formation and potential future of a drowned inlet in southwest Harris, set against the burgeoning problems of climate change.

Sacred Mountain, featured in February 2022, takes the reader on a moonlit walk to the summit of Aberdeenshire’s most iconic hill to witness the sunrise on the autumn equinox, reflecting on notions of the sacred in context with the landscape.

ECHTRAI JOURNAL

Echtrai Edition 1 – Launched 09th February 2022 by AnMór Studio.

A Journal of writing on landscapes lost, abandoned, forgotten, mythic.

My essay ‘The Stones of Bourtie’ explores the layers of time and memory held in the land through a walk across an ancient right of way that traverses an Iron Age hill fort.

Elsewhere: A Journal of place.

Edited and devised by author Paul Scraton, Elsewhere is ‘a journal dedicated to writing and visual art that explores the idea of place in all its forms, whether city neighbourhoods or island communities, heartlands or borderlands, the world we see before us or landscapes of the imagination.’

I have various articles spanning 2018-2022. You can read an archive of later work here.

Epoch Magazine

The University of Lancaster’s History community magazine. Publishing research in an accessible format, the magazine encompasses a wide range of writing with an historical bent.

‘In Search of High Ground‘ explores the prehistoric burial mound Belas Knap in Gloucestershire as part of a wider context that speculates on the emergence of place.

PUBLISHED 2020

The Hail Clamjamfry: Poems from the North-East of Scotland (Paperback) is an anthology of poetry published by Tangletree Press and edited by Eddie Gibbons. My poem ’The Smiddy’s Daughter’ is featured alongside the work of other writers based in the northeast of Scotland.

PUBLISHED 2019

The Aberdeen-Curtin University Alliance Anthology of Postgraduate Student Writing. My piece ‘Orkney: Where Past is Present’ is a reflective travelogue exploring the richness of the islands’ Neolithic past.

Causeway / Cabhsair Magazine

A Magazine of Irish and Scottish Writing. I have flash-fiction, poetry and essay featuring in Volumes 9, 9.2, 10.2, & 11.

Prole Magazine

Literary Prose and Poetry Journal edited by the wonderful Brett Evans and Phil Robertson. They hold no punches. My pyschogeographic essay ‘Field Notes from a City’ featured in Issue 24.

Southlight Literary Magazine

A Literary and Arts magazine based in Dumfries edited by John Burns, Vivien Jones and Angus Macmillan.

Issue 31 features my essay ‘Return to Lewis’ with accompanying images. I read my featured poetry for the launch of issue 26 at the 2019 Wigtown Book Festival. Issue 24 features my essay ‘Language and Identity in Scottish Literature: The Makar Poets and the Making of Tradition.’

Poetry Scotland

A long standing poetry broadsheet published twice-yearly. Showcasing new poetry in English, Scots and Gaelic from Scotland and around the world, Poetry Scotland was founded in 1997 by Sally Evans and Ian King. It has been edited by Andy Jackson and Judy Taylor since Issue 101, published in 2020.

My poem ‘Planets’ is featured in Issue 103.

‘Swallows’ Return’ is published in Issue 107.

The Lighthouse Journal

A literary journal of new writing, championing new voices and experimental forms. My short story ‘Panning for Gold’ featured in the special Flash Fiction edition, available here.

The Lamp Journal

A literary journal dedicated to publishing the work of graduate students worldwide. My Flash Fiction story ‘The Dreamless Dark’ featured in Volume 8, available as a download from the Lamp Journal shop. You can see details of the Volume and order a copy, here.

LUCENT DREAMING

Lucent Dreaming is an ‘independent magazine and publisher for emerging authors and artists‘, featuring ‘beautiful, strange and surreal work from contributors worldwide.’

My short story ‘Disconnected’ – a dystopian speculative fiction – featured in Issue 2.

‘The Rhythms of Anxiety’ featured in Issue 4 and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019.

Digital Editions of the original print run can be purchased on the Lucent Dreaming website by clicking on either image above.

Solstice Shorts – Arachne Press

Solstice Shorts Festival and Noon Anthology 2018.

My poem ‘An Autumn Noon’ featured in the above national festival and resulting anthology organised and published by Arachne Press.