My work has been shortlisted and placed in various competitions including: The Royal Academy Pin Drop Award, The London Magazine Short Story Prize, The Brighton Prize (2nd place 2014) The Fish Short Story Prize, The Bristol Prize, The Asham, The Oxford & Sunday Times Literary Festival Short Story Prize (2nd place 2013), The Fiction Desk, The Bridgewater Homestart Competition (3rd place 2014) The Cinnamon Press Debut Novel Competition, Fowey Literary Festival (2nd place 2013) Writer's Bureau (1st prize 2013), Unbound Press, The Word Hut, Avery, Meridian, New Writer Prose and Poetry Award, Spilling Ink, Ink Tears (1st place 2012) The Telegraph, The Rubery Award (1st place 2012), The Elephant Prize, The Sophie King Prize, The Glass Woman Prize, Sentinel Prize, The Frome Literary Prize 2015, The Pulp Short Story Prize 2015, The Prolitzer Prize (1st place 2015, runner up 2014), The HG Wells Prize (1st place 2014, shortlist 2015), The Writeidea Prize (1st place 2014), The Ifanca Hélène James Prize (1st place 2015), The Luna Press Short Story Contest, The Ilkley Literary Festival Short Story Prize 2015...
Publications:
Clipping Kiki: The London Reader March 2018
Summer Day 1992: Popshot Magazine June 2016. Available here.
Pangolin: Rattle Tales Anthology 4. May 2016. Available here.
Dissolving: First Place in The Prolitzer Prize 2015. Published in Prole Magazine Issue 18 (Available here)
Another Skin: Luna Press short story contest 2015. (Anthology 'Beyond Realities' available here)
Cultural Exchange of '76: The HG Wells Short Story Prize 2015. (Anthology available here)
Sharp as Sherbert Lemons: The Ifanca Hélène James Short Story Prize (September 2015) Available to read here
Boiled: Synaesthesia Magazine (April 2015) Available to read online here
Marissa's Bike: Runner Up in the 2014 Prolitzer Prize. Published in Prole Magazine Issue 15 (Available here)
The Fig Tree: Corazon Books Come Into The House anthology 2015 (available here)
Wakes and Wishbones: First Prize in the HG Wells Short Story Prize 2014 (Published in the Fortune Anthology)
What You'd Do For Love: First Prize in the Writeidea Short Story Prize 2014 (available to read here, Anthology forthcoming)
End of the Rope: Fiction Desk Ghost Anthology 2014 (Available here)
Last Gift: Popshot Magazine (October 2014. Available here)
Hush: Bridgehouse Light in the Dark Anthology 2014 (Available here)
Reprisal: Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 3 Sept 2014 (Available here)
Overdose: Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 3 (Available here)
The Real Thing: Brighton Prize anthology (forthcoming March 2015)
The Beat Goes On: Sophie King anthology, Corazon Books: Love Is All You Need (Available on Amazon)
After Ever After: Structo Magazine Issue 11 January 2014
This'll Be The Day: Freelance Market News and available to read on Writer's Bureau website.
Suicide Bomber: Unthank Books - Unthology 4 (available on Amazon)
Tide: Second Prize Fowey Literary Festival 2013 available to read on their website
Llama Sutra: Ink Tears online (and broadcast on Radio 4's Time Being Series May 2013)
Hook, Line and Ninety-Nines: The A.Vogel Short Story Award E-book 2013
Peacock Girl: Rubery Prize Anthology 2012 'By the Light of the Moon.' (available on Amazon)
Memories: Woman’s Own Summer Special July/Aug 2012 (first prize in their annual fiction comp)
After the Flood: Bristol Prize Anthology 2012 (available on Amazon)
The Singing Fish: Cinnamon Press 2012 anthology 'Jericho' (available on Amazon)
Baking Blind: Bristol Prize Anthology 2011 (available on Amazon)
Falafal: The New Writer Magazine July 2011
I've also written short fiction for the 'Womag' market, including Yours Magazine, People's Friend and Woman's Own
Summer Day 1992: Popshot Magazine June 2016. Available here.
Pangolin: Rattle Tales Anthology 4. May 2016. Available here.
Dissolving: First Place in The Prolitzer Prize 2015. Published in Prole Magazine Issue 18 (Available here)
Another Skin: Luna Press short story contest 2015. (Anthology 'Beyond Realities' available here)
Cultural Exchange of '76: The HG Wells Short Story Prize 2015. (Anthology available here)
Sharp as Sherbert Lemons: The Ifanca Hélène James Short Story Prize (September 2015) Available to read here
Boiled: Synaesthesia Magazine (April 2015) Available to read online here
Marissa's Bike: Runner Up in the 2014 Prolitzer Prize. Published in Prole Magazine Issue 15 (Available here)
The Fig Tree: Corazon Books Come Into The House anthology 2015 (available here)
Wakes and Wishbones: First Prize in the HG Wells Short Story Prize 2014 (Published in the Fortune Anthology)
What You'd Do For Love: First Prize in the Writeidea Short Story Prize 2014 (available to read here, Anthology forthcoming)
End of the Rope: Fiction Desk Ghost Anthology 2014 (Available here)
Last Gift: Popshot Magazine (October 2014. Available here)
Hush: Bridgehouse Light in the Dark Anthology 2014 (Available here)
Reprisal: Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 3 Sept 2014 (Available here)
Overdose: Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 3 (Available here)
The Real Thing: Brighton Prize anthology (forthcoming March 2015)
The Beat Goes On: Sophie King anthology, Corazon Books: Love Is All You Need (Available on Amazon)
After Ever After: Structo Magazine Issue 11 January 2014
This'll Be The Day: Freelance Market News and available to read on Writer's Bureau website.
Suicide Bomber: Unthank Books - Unthology 4 (available on Amazon)
Tide: Second Prize Fowey Literary Festival 2013 available to read on their website
Llama Sutra: Ink Tears online (and broadcast on Radio 4's Time Being Series May 2013)
Hook, Line and Ninety-Nines: The A.Vogel Short Story Award E-book 2013
Peacock Girl: Rubery Prize Anthology 2012 'By the Light of the Moon.' (available on Amazon)
Memories: Woman’s Own Summer Special July/Aug 2012 (first prize in their annual fiction comp)
After the Flood: Bristol Prize Anthology 2012 (available on Amazon)
The Singing Fish: Cinnamon Press 2012 anthology 'Jericho' (available on Amazon)
Baking Blind: Bristol Prize Anthology 2011 (available on Amazon)
Falafal: The New Writer Magazine July 2011
I've also written short fiction for the 'Womag' market, including Yours Magazine, People's Friend and Woman's Own
