I’m Paul Andrew Sneddon, a writer and musician from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Twelve books of stories, poems and flash fiction about ordinary lives, memory, work, love, survival, and the places that shape us.
THE NOVEL
Burn
A man at rock bottom, a guitar, and the fight back up.
THE LATEST COLLECTION
Shore
January to March 2026. Built out of real days, hard weather, music, and the need to make something real.
Latest writing
Mission: Don’t Die
Plant my feet and stand up.Full height.No apology. Blood, oxygen, life.My life. Keep moving. Hand across the scar.It’s part of me.Like Ayrshire rain or the…
Deathbed Blues
I’ll be lying in a hospital bed looking at my toes at the far end. My wife, the kids around me. Maybe old Mike from…
Slate
Summer He stood out in the street, the first light of a summer morning sneaking through. 5am. He had met Jane when he came back…
New writing, most days
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Music
Twenty years of songs before the prose. Have a listen.
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