PUBLICATIONS
An Honourable Place
Self-published, 2023
A collaborative two-player storytelling game, An Honourable Place invites you to chronicle how humanity’s dregs survive the end of the world, and how their actions affect the far, far future. Over the course of ten episodes, players create and narrate the histories of The Commune, a group of apocalypse survivors, and The Cult, a tribe of mystics on a pilgrimage.
Separated from each other by 5,000 years, but inextricably linked by cause and effect, players build an archive of historical symbology, and alter the course of each other's fates. Across the vast chasm of history, even the slightest decisions can grow into essential blessings, or tragic curses.
This is a story of communication, interpretation, co-operation, and how when the world falls apart, people pull together.
Purchase the PDF over on itch.io, or get in touch using the form at the bottom of the page to order a limited run zine.
One Man’s Trash
Lethe Press, 2022
A thoroughly postmodern monster finds kinship in mutability and endurance. A restaurant critic meets his match in a tale of telepathic tongues. A put-upon middle-manager dreams of bloody revenge against the puerile Big Babies. A courier chases an impossible connection across a city that doesn’t exist. Seeking solace in queer lives and landscapes, these fables of loneliness, love and liminality delight in disgust, discover joy in daily junk, and create wild unexpected treasures from the most unusual of leftovers.
“If you are a fan of the weird fiction genre (think Octavia Butler, Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King), One Man’s Trash is for you.”
- Lambda Literary
“There’s an engrossing sense of terrific unease at work in all of these stories that’s seductively tense. Romance in its emotional and physical form is intertwined throughout these tales of the unexpected.”
- Starburst
“These stories are unsettling in the best way: they get under your skin and take root.”
- Rachel Plummer, author of Wain
“A freakish, festering, and occasionally beautiful collection of stories.”
- Laura Waddell, author of Exit
Fierce Salvage
404 Ink, 2025
A follow-up to We Were Always Here, this collection of stories, poems and memoir provides a snapshot of Scotland’s queer community and LGBTI+ writing scene. A handpicked crew of dykes board the Caledonian Sleeper bound for Glasgow. A couple wrestle with gender roles when their flat inventory includes a brand new baby. A young man's world expands with possibility in Barcelona, while lust mingles with faith and celebrity in verse. Curious and provocative, sometimes domestic, sometimes otherworldly, it captures the variety of experiences that bind our community together.
We Were Always Here
404 Ink, 2018
From drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. By turns serious and fantastical, hilarious and confrontational, We Were Always Here addresses the fears, mysteries, wonders and variety of experience that binds our community together. We Were Always Here is a snapshot of current Scottish LGBTI+ writing and a showcase of queer talent.
Minor Mishaps
Self-published, 2020
A zine of collected writings that aren’t entirely fit for public consumption, but also not quite so past their use-by-date that they had to be thrown away. Spans a 9 year period of experiments, false-starts and oddities. Includes some infrequent forays into poetry, a longform piece that lands somewhere between autofiction and Irish mythology, and some of the best cuts from a long-defunct blog, The Dolby Apposition, which used songs chosen at random by an iPod Shuffle as the starting point for microfictions.
The Queen’s Head: Issue 8
Self-published, 2016
Grave misuse of industrial-grade rubber; media-savvy murder ballads; post-decomposition literary deconstruction; birds and bellies; denial, drugs, Dune and death; the secret lives of furniture; old world, fresh eyes, new.
Camillus John - The Elastic Wedding Band
Sara Walters - Caged
Elliott Simpson - New Chair
James Hodgson - Exit Strategies
Rachel Plummer - Birdhouses / Midsection
Elaine Gallagher - A Life Examined
Jenny Terpsichore Abeles - Delia Bacon Does Not Exist
The Queen’s Head: Issue 7
Self-Published, 2015
Ballardian viscera; paranoid fatherhood; interdimensional gaming and grief; hallucinogenic escapes; doomed voyages; a conference of AI; radiation sickness; digital labyrinths.
Ever Dundas - Wire
Shona McCombes - Bluebeard 2.0
Arike Oke - Those are Pearls that Were His Eyes
Paul McQuade - Starchildren
Katie McDermott - Omega
Emma Cleary - Moonsuit
R M Graves - Albie's War
Elaine Gallagher - Cassiel Falls
All illustrations by Ross McAuley
The Queen’s Head: Issue 6
Self-Published, 2014
A transaction of souls; interior designs; mouths like watering holes; amber trinkets; hirsute hominids; theological powerpoints; cataclysm, flippantly.
Lara C Cory - Bottle Brown
Brennan Burnside - Therapeutic Waiting Rooms
Kiare Ladner - OMG!
Les Bernstein - Beelzebub’s Fundamentals for Success / What The Great Almighty Carries In Her Purse
Jon Wesick - The Problem Has Always Been People / Palanga, Lituania
Giselle Leeb - Moonlighter
Anstey Spraggan - A Hairy Tale
Valentina Cano - Beach Day / Mouth
All illustrations by Tawny Kerr
The Queen’s Head: Issue 5
Self-published, 2013
Pensioners, fighting dirty; antennae; an obsession with heartache; frozen cities; a village without children, a forest with a secret; forgotten man-made monsters; zero open, zero closed; queer representation in underground comics; a most beautiful slaughter; several selves; on chewing.
Andrew Blair - The Walk Home
Andrew Taylor - Outlines of Stacks / /Image Date May 2012
R. A. Davis - The Trouble with Belle and Sebastian
Dic Edwards - Icepoems: Paris & Athens
Vivien Jones - Silent Village
Steven Devereux - Dounreay // Tyre Dump
Mike Saunders - Family Self Portrait // [k j zero one]
Steven Garrard - Sex & Gender, Love & Rockets
Charlie Saben Fox - Artemisia
Tami Vibberstoft - A Question of Honesty
Arundati Dandapani - Hey, Fatboy // Relieving Orders at Mealtimes
Illustrations
Headlouse - Suky Goodfellow
Trouble - Tawny Kerr
Little Man - Sophie Casimira Kromholz
Trans-Siberan Tentacle - Nadine Khatib
Artemisia - Sophie Casimira Kromholz
The Queen’s Head: Issue 4
Self-Published, 2012
Courting rituals; lonely giraffes; atomic grace; papier-mâché people; a sun that never sets; a big bird in a small cage; mythical lumberjacks; shiny red clicked-heel shoes.
Andrew Blair - The Birds and The Bees
Sophie Casimira Kromholz - You Will Meet a Tall, Spotted Stranger
Samuel Tongue - Oak Branch & Tree Warbler // Pushkar
Alex Tobin - Early Train
Angela Meyer - The North, 1883 // Foreign Bodies
Bethany Williams - The Cage
Liam Fogerty - His Name Was Paul
Susan MacDonald - Torryburn Jean
All illustrations by Hazel Gore
The Queen’s Head: Issue 3
Self-published, 2011
Feminism, craft and rebellious grandmothers; fond remembrances; minotaur (singular), breaking and entering; wrestlers and bluesmen.
Anna Fisk - Patch Work
R. A. Davis - St. Andrew’s Day // Advent
Ryan Vance - Asterion
Paul Smith - The Freebird Rule
Also ships with a special Triptych Chapbook - three mini-zines showcasing material from Stephen O'Toole, R. A. Davis, Elaine Gallagher and Tawny Kerr
The Queen’s Head: Issue 2
Self-published, 2010
Welsh Odlaws; fingers and sausages; auditory epiphanies; flying marine biology; monkeys and masks.
R. A. Davis - When Was Wally?
Katie Nail - Jelly Fish
Stephen O'Toole - Happy People (OR: U SAVED ME, R KELLY)
Sean McCormack - A Cephalopod Too Far
Cara English - Two Poems, Untitled
Ryan Vance - Forgetta
Also ships with two illustrated postcards by Tawny Kerr
The Queen’s Head: Issue 1
Self-published, 2009
The lyrical narratives of breakups; shaving trees and sad cyborgs; Jose Saramago's socialist agenda; possession, skin and a tug-of-war mixtape.
R. A. Davis - The Parting Glass
Stephen O’Toole - For Shiona
Ian Kenneth Macbeth - Let’s Howl, Said the Dog
Ryan Vance / Daniel Baker - Ori
Aimee Williamson & Kate Montgomery - Agony Aunts (Poster)