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Radio

  • Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
    6th May 2022

    I was on Woman’s Hour to talk about The Growing Season, artificial wombs and the future of reproduction.

    Listen to me on Woman’s Hour

  • Open Book, BBC Radio 4
    17th September 2017

    I was on Open book to discuss The Growing Season, and the ethics around the artificial womb technology I imagined for the book.

    Listen to me on Open Book

  • Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
    2nd September 2016

    I was on Woman’s Hour to talk about The Comet Seekers, my debut novel.

    Listen to me on Woman’s Hour

  • Save The Sea Turtles
    February 2013

    Save The Sea Turtles was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, performed by Paul Young, as part of the Scottish Shorts series. It’s currently unavailable but hopefully will be rebroadcast and available here soon!

    Listen to Save the Sea Turtles

Video

  • BBC Reel
    7th February 2022

    I was interviewed as part of this BBC documentary: What if women never had to give birth again? I’m talking about The Growing Season and the future of reproduction through biotechnology, both the potential benefits and the risks.

    Watch on the BBC

  • When the Dead Come Calling
    19th May 2020

    This is a reading from the first book in my crime trilogy, When the Dead Come Calling, that I recorded for HighlandLIT.

    Watch on YouTube

  • Nature Inspires
    19th April 2020

    I was interviewed for this documentary series about how the landscape of the Highlands and particularly the Tarbat Ness Lighthouse inspires my writing.

    Watch on YouTube

Articles

  • The Herald
    20th February 2022

    James Oswald, Alex Gray and Helen Sedgwick on crime fiction after Sarah Everard.

    Read here

  • Guardian
    4th Sept 2017

    Artificial wombs could soon be a reality. What will this mean for women?

    Read here

  • Herald
    12th Sept 2016

    Author Helen Sedgwick on her first novel The Comet Seekers and the consoling scale of the universe.

    Read here

Publications

  • Snow Melts
    All the Way Home
    February 2022

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  • The Treatment
    Uncanny Bodies
    August 2020

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  • The Archaeologist of Akrotiri
    She Said He Said I Said – New Writing Scotland 35
    August 2017

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  • The Largest Circle
    404 Ink
    November 2016

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  • 8

    Quantum Gravity Or: The Pigmy Marmoset and the Prefabricated Concrete Bungalow
    I Am Because You Are
    October 2015

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  • 9

    Duality
    Out There
    September 2014

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  • 1

    Precognitive Abilities
    Songs of Other Places – New Writing Scotland 32
    July 2014

    Buy here

  • 12

    Matthew
    Story.Book
    December 2011

    Prize-winning fiction from the Unbound Press and Spilling Ink competitions.

  • 3

    Horizon View
    Algebra
    August 2011

  • 4

    Above the Array
    Cazart
    July 2011

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  • 6

    Extract from Burning Rates
    Gutter
    February 2011

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  • 16

    Our Little Joke
    Let’s Pretend: 37 Stories about (In)fidelity
    October 2008

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  • 18

    Take Tea With Turing
    January 2013

    Take Tea With Turing is an anthology of creative work inspired by the life and legacy of Alan Turing. The anthology is available as a free-to-download app.

    Get the app

  • 13

    Once Upon A Universe
    The science & writing collaboration at the Galloway Astronomy Centre.
    November 2011

  • 19

    Social Media Week: Very Short Stories
    September 2011

    Social Media Week (SMW) was a worldwide social media festival which took place in cities throughout the world. I was the winner of the very short story competition.

    Read here

Publications Reviews

"One hundred years after Einstein altered our view of the universe, a new collection of short stories is a fitting tribute to his creative genius."
Independent Review of I Am Because You Are


"Sparkling with wit and originality, making a virtue out of the frail humanity of science, these stories perfectly reflect the breathtaking poetry of Einstein’s greatest theory."
Michael Brooks,
author of 13 Things That Don't Make Sense
Review of I Am Because You Are


"Such is the display of writerly talent on display here that we are reminded that, as with space and time, the possibilities of literature will likely never cease to astound, amaze, and inspire us."
Nothingintherulebook Review of I Am Because You Are


"These stories form as strong a collection as I've read in a decade or more."
Ian Rankin Review of Let's Pretend

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