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His work moves across forms—novels, poetry, essays, films, and collaborative projects—always circling the question of how imagination unsettles the ordinary and opens the world anew.
Stephen completed a practice-led PhD at the University of Salford in 2022. Its creative outcome was The Cinema Beneath the Lake, now published by Orbis Tertius Press (Canada, 2025). His research explored Surrealism, with a particular emphasis on the prose writing of surrealist women, the “everyday marvellous,” and the potential of creative practice as a site of transformation.
Stephen’s writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he has published collections of poetry, essays, and experimental texts. Stephen has produced work for radio, television, and film — including three BBC-broadcast radio plays and a range of scripts that move between genre and experiment.
He teaches creative writing and scriptwriting at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and collaborates with artists, poets, and communities on projects exploring creativity as both a personal and collective resource.
“At the heart of my work is a conviction that imagination is not escape but encounter: a means of re-seeing the world, of touching the uncanny edges of the everyday, and of inventing new modes of relation.”
Stephen edited the amazing experimental novel, Alsdorf, which we had the honour of publishing. More info
Much more over at Stephen’s website