Work as editor

The Fortnightly Review, Contributing Editor, 2018 to present.

Shadowtrain online poetry journal, Founding Editor, 2006-2015. Shadowtrain has been preserved by the British Library in its online archives. Currently, however, it is not available due to hacking. The British Library hope to restore these archives soon. When they do, the link is here: https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20150920220014/http://www.shadowtrain.com/

Crossings Over: Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2016 (University of Chester Press, 2017).

Patches of Light: Short Stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2015 (University of Chester Press, 2016).

Pandora’s Box (print) and Pandora’s Inbox (online), General Editor, 2014-2022. These magazines featured a selection of the best creative writing by students and staff at the University of Chester. Two or three final-year undergraduates worked with me each year as student editors.

A Discoverie of Witches. From December 2011 to April 2012, I worked for Lancaster Litfest as editor of a commissioned book of poetry by Blake Morrison. This involved working closely with Blake on the final drafting and selection. In June 2012, I conducted a videoed interview with Blake, and hosted the book launch with a Q&A session at Litfest.