A romantic pastiche for the Editor's February Brief (whose subject was 'heart')

Everybody loves a good soap opera.  Unfortunately, River City is not a very good soap opera... This is an affectionate review of an episode of Scotland's left-field answer to Eastenders.

A blog post I wrote for my site http://12books12months.com/ debating the nature of Literary Fiction.

The January 2012 edition of Oot, a monthly What's On Column I write on a voluntary basis for Edinburgh website The Broughton Spurtle.

A guest post for Hecklerspray speculating on the potential of an independent Scottish Eurovision entry.

Guest post for Mslexia about trying to follow advice and finding that everyone says something different.

A post about library cuts for The Guardian.

First in a series of four articles I wrote for Ideas Tap at the start of the year - the experiences of a jobless graduate hoping to get into journalism.

A blogpost for music website Ten Tracks about female experiences at gigs.

A blog post I wrote in January about a contentious article written by someone who ought to have known better.

Liveblog for The Guardian on an all-day gig organised by Edinburgh band Kid Canaveral.

A piece I wrote for The Chutney Exhibition when Iceland exploded and nobody could fly anywhere.

An article about the Chris Morris film Four Lions and the Q+A directly after the screening I saw, originally published on The Edinburgh Reporter .

An article I wrote for quarterly arts magazine, Brikolage .