FICTION
Flash fiction, short stories and novels.
Peninsula - New story in THe Write Launch
Click here to the see the title story of the collection that I am writing, 'Peninsula', published in the December 2018 edition of The Write Launch.
A Point to it All - new story in 'Words for the Wild'
JUNE 20, 2018
I am delighted to be able to share my latest story, 'A Point to it All' in Words for the Wild. The story, about surfing and writing in Morocco, is an adaptation of the nascent first chapter of my novel-in-progress, The Critical Line which I am still in the process of editing. You can find the full story by clicking here.
About Me
MY BIO
I have been writing fiction since 2015. An alumnus of New Writing South's Creative Writing Programme, I also hold a PhD in modernist fiction from the University of Birmingham. I write and perform contemporary literary fiction.
In 2017 I was highly commneded in the Brighton Prize for the short story and featured in their anthology.
My work has been published in 2018 in DNA Magazine, The Forge Liteary Journal, Words for the Wild and The Nottingham Review and is forthcoming in Porridge later in the year. I am at work on my first novel.
I have read work at the Brighton Fringe Festival and at Brighton's Rattle Tales (the blurry picture to the left of me doing just that).
I live on the south coast, near Brighton, UK with my wife, Liz and two young daughters, Ciara and Maeve.
I tweet @jherbertwriter
Recent Work
"In the end nobody really gives a shit about the writer’s life unless the writing is there first. That’s all that matters. That’s the endpoint. What appears on the page is what makes your life interesting."
COLUM MCCANN
