Meet the Artist

John a creative director of the Shot Glass Theatre Co. and has written and produced several short plays and two really long ones. Three if you count the one he wrote for Wireless Mystery Theatre. He’s been involved in a couple of films but “the less said about them the better”.

The Narwhal and Other Stories, his first collection, has been called ‘brief but entertaining’. His arts journalism has been published in Culture Northern Ireland, CultureHUB, The Thin Air, The Vacuum, The Belfast Telegraph and The Holborn. He has recently illustrated a book on Satanist Aleister Crowley as yet another way to make his mother proud.

His second collection of stories The Bad Ideas Man is due for publication at some point “in the dim and distant future”. He hosts a podcast Inside John Patrick Higgins and continues to write for various publications, on various topics.