Listen, watch, read
Radio
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Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
6th May 2022I was on Woman’s Hour to talk about The Growing Season, artificial wombs and the future of reproduction.
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Open Book, BBC Radio 4
17th September 2017I was on Open book to discuss The Growing Season, and the ethics around the artificial womb technology I imagined for the book.
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Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
2nd September 2016I was on Woman’s Hour to talk about The Comet Seekers, my debut novel.
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Save The Sea Turtles
February 2013Save 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!
Video
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BBC Reel
7th February 2022I 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.
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When the Dead Come Calling
19th May 2020This is a reading from the first book in my crime trilogy, When the Dead Come Calling, that I recorded for HighlandLIT.
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Nature Inspires
19th April 2020I was interviewed for this documentary series about how the landscape of the Highlands and particularly the Tarbat Ness Lighthouse inspires my writing.
Articles
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The Herald
20th February 2022James Oswald, Alex Gray and Helen Sedgwick on crime fiction after Sarah Everard.
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Guardian
4th Sept 2017Artificial wombs could soon be a reality. What will this mean for women?
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Herald
12th Sept 2016Author Helen Sedgwick on her first novel The Comet Seekers and the consoling scale of the universe.
Publications
Snow Melts
All the Way Home
February 2022
The Treatment
Uncanny Bodies
August 2020
The Archaeologist of Akrotiri
She Said He Said I Said – New Writing Scotland 35
August 2017
The Largest Circle
404 Ink
November 2016
Quantum Gravity Or: The Pigmy Marmoset and the Prefabricated Concrete Bungalow
I Am Because You Are
October 2015
Duality
Out There
September 2014
Precognitive Abilities
Songs of Other Places – New Writing Scotland 32
July 2014
Matthew
Story.Book
December 2011Prize-winning fiction from the Unbound Press and Spilling Ink competitions.
Horizon View
Algebra
August 2011
Above the Array
Cazart
July 2011
Walter
Litro
April 2011
Extract from Burning Rates
Gutter
February 2011
Our Little Joke
Let’s Pretend: 37 Stories about (In)fidelity
October 2008
Take Tea With Turing
January 2013Take 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.
Once Upon A Universe
The science & writing collaboration at the Galloway Astronomy Centre.
November 2011
Social Media Week: Very Short Stories
September 2011Social 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.