A bit of delightful news to start this post, and end the decade with – the…
Nik Perring
Radio
A very quick note to say I’m on the Outside Track on Sine FM (102.6 FM)…
In The Five Minutes They Ate
Very quick post today to let you all know my very short story, In The Five…
How They Live! (And an offer…)
It’s such a pleasure seeing good people doing brilliant things, and it’s a delight being able…
Flying Off The Shelf
It’s been a little while since I’ve done anything personally at Sheffield’s brilliant Off The Shelf…
Pawel Pawlak and Oscar and Wishes and Teeth
I was lucky enough to read Oscar Seeks a Friend a little while ago and I…
Celebrations!
Goodness, where to start? An awful lot of my time as a writer is spent helping…
Keepsake
Thrilled to do that thing I do on occasion – handing the blog over to someone…
New Story: Feast.
I’m delighted that the terrific Short Fiction Journal have published Feast. It’s been one of my…
BIG THINGS
So much seems to have happened since I last came on here it feels like I’ve…
Good Films
Despite my best intentions, I wasn’t able to get to the pictures to see the last…
Experimental Writing Deadline
The Streetcake Magazine Experimental Writing Prize’s deadline is fast approaching so there’s still time to enter…
My Worlds
And a quick postcard of lovely before the long weekend… Melior Academy’s School Winner of First…
The Animal Child
One of my non-actual-Nik-writing jobs is being Writer in Residence at Melior Community Academy in Scunthorpe…
New Stories
I think the weirdest thing about being a writer is that you can spend as much…
Streetcake – Prize and Mentoring
I’m almost half way through the Robot workshops I’ve been running over half term for Sheffield…
February. Half Term. Sheffield. Robots.
It’s been a busy time since my operation and I’ve barely had time to catch breath…
Arvon Anthology (and a few other bits)
I have absolutely no idea why I’ve not posted this before. Apologies. I know I meant…
Christmas at Melior
I’m still in that weird/tired/recovering post-op fug (thank you to all who said nice, encouraging things…
Nine-Show Week, with William Rycroft
Photograph © Pieter Lawman I’m still struggling with a dodgy elbow but, while that’s recovering (or doing…
Weird Tales Radio
Very quick post from me today (I’m nursing a very sore arm) but… a little while…
Hatch Fiction Programme – Deadline Coming
It’s been an absolutely crazy busy start to the academic year and I’ve been all over…
The Truth About Archie Pye
Jonathon Pinnock’s latest, The Truth About Archie Pye, was published last week (huge congrats!) so I…
Foyle Young Poet Of The Year
I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to say, finally, that Georgie Woodhead, of Hive’s Sheffield Young…
Perfect Ten
Way, way, back I was a member of an online writing group. I’d had a few…