I'm the author of the novel The Bee-Loud Glade, and my short fiction appears in various places. I teach at Emerson College, and edit the webjournal Necessary Fiction. This site is a notebook of things I find interesting with occasional updates about publications, upcoming events, and other news.
Misterstourworm is a collaboration between Savourna Stevenson, the harpist and composer, and Stuart Paterson, the Fife-based playwright who, for more than 20 years, has adapted children’s myths and legends for the stage.
The work is the result of what Stevenson called a “life-changing” grant of £25,000 made by Creative Scotland in 2001.
It enabled the couple to create a tale set in a mythical Scotland in which a young hero embarks on a magical quest to free his people from a fearsome, fire-breathing sea monster, Misterstourworm.