Updates
Read 'Fernando' at Hazard Cat
Read 'Cathartic' at Pow Fast Flash Fiction
Read 'Cracks' at Nth Position
Read 'Ripples' at Byker Books
Read 'Rising' in StreetCake
Evening of Dark Delights reviewed
Barbs and Vanes was awarded third place in the Malton Literature Festival short story competition
Read God In A Box in Cafe Irreal
Hear Steve at The Box of Delights on Halloween
New article in BSH Custom Motorcycle Magazine
New article in Fortean Times
The Harrogate Advertiser's article about Poems, Prose & Pints mentioned Steve
Steve has a new article published in BSH on the Yorkshire Pudding Rally
Steve has had the story 'The Phoenix Year' accepted for publication in issue 4 of Beautiful Scruffiness
Stories are life. When the present has gone stories are all we have.
Steve is an author, archaeologist and journalist living in North Yorkshire and occasionally Munich, Germany. As an author he writes mythic fiction, weaving elements from folklore and legend into a contemporary setting. Inhabitants of the otherworld are found in shopping centres, airports and city streets.
Steve started reading his work at open mic nights in September 2009 and now regularly performs at Poems, Prose and Pints in Harrogate and Speaker's Corner in York. Since that first September evening he has won the runner up prize in the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival Short Story Competition and third place in the Malton Literature Festival Short Story Competition. Ten of Steve's short stories have been accepted for publication.
Please visit the fiction page to read some of Steve's stories
In August 2010 Steve was asked to perform a half hour spoken word set at the Orblive@FEVA event. Working in partnership with the artist Bridget Taverner Steve organised, and hosted, the sellout 'Evening of Dark Delights' at The Box of Delights Art Gallery in Thirsk.
If you would like to book Steve for a spoken word event please use the contact form below.
In addition to writing fiction Steve works as a freelance journalist, with articles regularly appearing in BSH The Custom Motorcycle Magazine and Fortean Times. He produces accessible, informative articles drawing on his specialist knowledge of archaeology, motorcycles, the British motorcycle scene, vintage culture, myth and folklore.
With 16 years archaeological experience, working mainly in British contract archaeology, Steve is a skilled and knowledgeable excavator. His own research is focused on the Embodiment of Building Iron Age hillforts and pagan perceptions of landscape. He has over five years experience working with GIS on a major landscape archaeology project and is a qualified AutoCAD technician.
When not working he can be found reading mythic fiction, tending to his 1946 Norton Dommie or dancing Lindy Hop.