Writing credits

COMPETITIONS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

• Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant, Round 8
• Winner, Children’s and YA Fiction, Northern Writers’ Awards 2017
• Shortlisted for the 2016 Bridport Prize with ‘I can see myself from here’
• Shortlisted for the 2016 Bristol Prize with ‘Never Thought He’d Go‘ (anthology available)
• Top 50 in the 2015 London Short Story Prize with ‘The Soupstone’

STORIES

• ‘Last Spring / This Winter’, No Borders Zine Special Edition, #DigitalTenderness 2021 (available in print HERE)
• ‘There’s a gift shop now’, Interzone, issue 289 (November 2020)
• ‘The Rabbit: A Memory or a Dream’, Black Static, issue 77 (November 2020)
• ‘Crossed Path’ as part of National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood, 3.45pm BST on 6 June – nominated for Best Microfictions 2020.
• ‘Something Nice For Tea’, Unsung Stories, Free Friday Read, 29th May, 2020
• ‘Dandelions is all I took home’, Cōnfingō, issue 13
• ‘Poor Flying Things’ TSS Publishing, 12 December 2018
• ‘Never Thought He’d Go‘ (Best British Short Stories 2017, published by Salt Publishing, ed. Nicholas Royle. See also Competitions, below)
• ‘Leftovers’ The Lonely Crowd, issue 5.
• ‘Genie’ (Loss Lit, issue 3, June 2016)
• ‘Lost to Dolly’ (Gingerbread House Lit Mag, issue 17, February 2016)
• ‘The Casual Electrocution of Strangers’ (in the free-to-download anthology of same name, published by Literary Salmon [of which I am a founding editor], released October 2015)
• ‘Puppeteer’ (Faber Academy quickfic challenge winner, online March 20 2015)
• ‘Fimbulwinter’ (Litro Magazine #141, digital March 2015, print May 2015)
• ‘Reconstruction’ (Bare Fiction Magazine #3, digital and print, September 2014)
• ‘Sea Monster’ (Synaesthesia Magazine #10, digital, December 2014) jellyfish illustration by Damaris Sulser

POEMS

• ‘Sewing in the Stones’ in The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 (Eyewear Publishing, judged and edited by Kelly Davio; series editor Todd Swift)
• ‘Resurrection’ in Envoi, issue 172
• ‘L’amour s’en va (for Françoise Hardy)’ over at Silver Birch Press, as part of the SAME NAME series
• ‘No Word is Free’: The Interpreter’s House, Issue 60
• ‘My love plays the fiddle on Southbank’; ‘The understudy’; ‘At Canada Water’; ‘Life finds a way’: Broadsheet poet in Agenda, Vol 49, No 1 ‘Callings’
• ‘Procne Prepares’ in Furies  (For Books’ Sake anthology)
• ‘View of the rock from a hard place’ in the Manx Lit Fest poetry trail.
•  ‘Folktale’ in No Love Lost (a Slim Volume from Pankhearst, ed. by Kate Garrett, print, December 2014)

NONFICTION

• ‘How I wrote Leftovers’ – The Lonely Press online, issue 5
• Winter is Coming: what to read to see you through – MyVLF.com
• History Through Women Writers – MyVLF.com
• Interview: Endem and Rob Irish – NARC Dec 2020
• + the Three of a Kind ‘where to submit your work’ column in Mslexia magazine, 2017-2020.

I also semi-regularly submit to www.visualverse.org, which posts an image each month for writers to respond to (in under an hour). Click here for my efforts.