Events

I’m going to be at the Cymera Festival talking about Meat, my short story in The Monster, Capital, along with editor, Ra Page of Comma Press.

Do join me if you can! The event is in person and also online.

7pm 6 June

Tickets available here: Cymera Festival 2025

Meat is available to pre-order here, and you can find out more about it here.

There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It’s been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration.

For the latest book in its acclaimed horror series, Comma Press has invited ten authors to explore this emergent, monstrous property of capital through supernatural and surreal means.

Thus, we see characters disappearing into algorithm-driven spending addictions, property development spreading like a virus across cityscapes leaving buildings empty and people homeless, and citizens so addicted to the ‘news drug’ that promises everything is about to change that nothing does. We may think of capitalism as the ghost in the machine, driving things forward. But what happens when we become the ghosts?