Mark has won the Somerset Maugham Award for Two kinds of silence, the 2023 New Welsh Writing Awards for Invisibility, a Wales Media Award for journalism and the Dylan Thomas love the words prize.

Poetry The view from my shed with Dreich, short stories Doppelgangers with Parthian and in 2025, a new series of books with Area 51.

Book a face-to-face, online 1-2-1 with Mark at Writecoach

For organisations, Writing for wellbeing, historical fiction and writing ghost stories are among the specialist workshops on offer. Current clients include Awen Cultural Trust and Newport Live. Contact Mark via the Society of Authors link. 

He also works as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, running Reading Round in Cardiff. Mark has given workshops, hosted and performed at over 400 events on four continents, for the Hay Festival, Wales Millennium Centre, BBC4 and Radio 4.