Always a storyteller, both in words and visually, Simon has worked as a professional animator, scriptwriter and illustrator for most of his career. He has directed commercials, short films and lots of dubious corporate miscellany. A number of his short films have been shown at festivals, garnering several awards. Simon has also created illustrations for industry magazines and children’s publications. Wanting to explore his writing in more depth he undertook an MA in Professional Writing at Falmouth University, graduating in 2011. He has been working on script and prose writing since. His short story And God Said was published in the 2010 Fish Anthology as a runner-up in the One-page Fiction Prize. His spoof article The Hemmingway Virus won the Brighton COW Spring Break non-fiction competition in 2011. In 2014 his short story The Words was a runner up in the Fish Short Story Prize, getting an honorary mention and publication in yet another Fish Anthology.