| A little plastic seal from a milk carton. Lying on the kitchen floor. I’ll get it on the way back. I’ll open the bedroom curtains. I’ll change the sheets. Scroll through the news. Another cup. Trip over the Hoover. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. |
| Stewart works as a writer, actor & tutor. He co-founded Benchtours Theatre creating many acclaimed shows throughout the nineties & noughties. He was prison creative writing lecturer at HMP Shotts and recently edited Visiting Time, an anthology of prison writing. His stories, poems & articles (for children and grownups) have appeared in Gutter, The Curlew, The Caterpillar & various other anthologies. He regularly performs his work both to children and adults. He has written a number of theatre works, most recently The Monster & Mary Shelley (UK tour 2018/19) In 2019 he was awarded the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance scholarship to study a creative writing PhD at Aberdeen University & Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His first novel Blessed Assurance was published by Vagabond Voices in November 2019. |