Publications

My stories are mostly from the past few years, writing in the margins, between work, life & everything. 

Stories also forthcoming in 

• Fudoki Anthology
• Reflex Anthology 
• Flash Fiction Festival Anthologyy
  
• Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology
• Best Small Fictions 2024
  
• Others to be announced

I'm excited that my collection/workbook 52 STORIES for Readers & Writers will be published by Ad Hoc Fiction! 

September 2024 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

⏩ The Observational Bias of Love shortlisted in Leicester Writes Short Story Prize & published in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2024 by Dahlia Books.

⏩ Postcards From the Boathouse longlisted in Leicester Writes & published in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2024 by Dahlia Books.

⏩ A Chandelier of Citrus Skins in Issue 103 of Mslexia 

July 2024

⏩  Skin Beetles in Best of the Net 2024 Anthology (originally published in Janus Literary)

June 2024

⏩ The Four O'Clock Shop in Issue 3 of The Mersey Review

⏩ Rewilding in the National Flash Fiction Day Write-in 2024

⏩ I Meet Myself Coming Back in National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2024

⏩ White Noise (Editor's Choice) in 'Tiny Sparks Everywhere'  - the Elements themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2024 (Print) 

April 2024 

⏩ Mama’s Cupcake Recipe (All a Stoner Girl Needs at Night) published by Bending Genres

February 2024

⏩ Three Reasons Why Killer Whales Kill Porpoises But Don’t Eat Them in Swansong, Issue 14, published by Ellipsis Zine

January 2024 

⏩ A Rope Hangs Waiting in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 6, published by Ad Hoc Fiction 

December 2023

⏩ Gone in Mslexia's Best Women's Short Fiction 2023

November 2023 

⏩ Ceiling Projections For Late Stage Souperism 2nd place in the Propelling Pencil Flash Fiction Competition.

⏩ The Back Road and the Kissing Gate shortlisted by the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Prize & published in Solemates and Other Stories by the Scottish Arts Trust

October 2023

⏩ When You're Gone I Practice for When You're Dead in Issue 31 of New Flash Fiction Review

August 2023

⏩ At Weekends Mama's Carnivore in Issue 3 of RUBY Literary Magazine

July 2023 

⏩ The Zoo is Empty Tuesdays in The Phare Summer Issue 2023.

June 2023

⏩ The Princess and the Blankets in National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2023

⏩ Ember Days in 'Scratching the Sands' - the Time themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023 (Print) 

⏩ Scheele's Green in 'Scratching the Sands' - the Time themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023 (Print) 

March 2023

⏩ Skin Beetles in Janus Literary

⏩ CHAW in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 5, published by Ad Hoc Fiction

⏩ How Alexa Gets Pregnant and Chooses Abortion in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 5, published by Ad Hoc Fiction

February 2023

⏩ Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine in Fuel a fuel poverty charity anthology of 75 prize winning stories. 

⏩ The Back Road and the Kissing Gate shortlisted by the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Prize 

January 2023

⏩  Making Marys in Atlas and Alice

⏩  I Give After-Christmas-Presents in Paragraph Planet

December 2022

⏩  Dead Elves in Paragraph Planet 

⏩  The Fortune Teller Miracle Fish from the Christmas Cracker Retreat West Christmas themed 12 Days of Stories

November 2022

⏩ Sailing the 7Cs of Flash Fiction - Vancouver Flash Fiction

⏩ Turf - Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Anthology Longlist (Print) 

October 2022

⏩ Free-diving Five Hundred Million Years Ago Quiet Man Dave Prize Shortlist

⏩ The Axens of Silver Stag Ridge - EllipsisZine #12 (Print) 

⏩ Every Happy Ending is a Lie - Reflex Fiction longlist 

September 2022

⏩ What My Therapist Calls Grounding to Calm My Anxious Body - A Cast of Crabs anthology from Retreat West (Print) 

⏩ The Mechanical Forest at the End of the World - Splonk

August 2022

⏩ Cup of Joe - HAD 💀

⏩ The Pigeon-Pea Princess of Sanganakallu - Fractured Lit

⏩ The Watchtower Seasons - New Flash Fiction Review

July 2022

⏩ What if Your Mother was the Woman Next Door - Ellipsis Zine

June 2022

⏩ A Sin to See Through Glass - National Flash Fiction Day 'Freedom' Anthology (Print)

⏩ FRAKTA National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2022

⏩ The Measure of You - Crossing The Tees Flash Mob Anthology 

⏩ Gummy Bears - Tower Hamlets winner published in City of Stories Home anthology by Spread the Word

May 2022 

⏩ The Fish Tank Mangroves Canopy  - Urban Tree Festival runner-up

⏩ The Norwegian Spruce Seeds of the Svalbard Vault Urban Tree Festival Longlist

April 2022 

⏩ Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology (print) 

⏩ CHAW Great Flash Fiction Festival Throwdown (Winner)

⏩ The Life Cycle of Fire & Note Craft

⏩ Stick and Poke Reflex Fiction (Longlist) 

March 2022

⏩ Per Procurationem Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, Volume 4

⏩ Recipe for Sustenance to avoid the End of the World as We Know it with Fresh Roles Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, Volume 4 (Technical Challenge Winner) 

⏩ The Almost-kiss Tiny Molecules

⏩ The Animals of Göbekli Tepe & Podcast The Phare

⏩ Always Sunset Retreat West Flash Festival Competition

⏩ The Tucana Constellation of the Southern Skies Walk Listen Create

⏩ Torn EllipsisZine 

February 2022 

⏩ The Soapstone Girl Dances Paragraph Planet

⏩ Spill Reflex Fiction (Longlist) 

December 2021

⏩ Plink Paragraph Planet

⏩ Our Lady of Perpetual Plastic & Smoke & Mirrors interview Smokelong Quarterly 

⏩ Duct Tape Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology (Print) Longlist

⏩ Hail Bath Short Story Award 2021 Anthology (Print) Shortlist

November 2021 

⏩ Eclipsed Spread the Word & London Wildlife Trust This is Our Place Anthology (Print & Download) 

⏩ A Portrait of War and Love Ellipsiszine#10 (Print) 

⏩ Woodbine Reflex Fiction Autumn 2021 Flash Fiction Competition (4th place) 

⏩ The Animals of Göbekli Tepe  The Phare Literary Magazine 

⏩ The Acorns of Bartlett Park  Sydney Gardens Park Bath Tree Weekender prose competition winner. Check out Longlist here. 

⏩ Born Free Paragraph Planet

⏩ Night Bathing Highlands and Islands Short Story Association (HISSAC) Flash Fiction Winner 

October 2021

⏩ Guys I Meet Before I Die Half Empty Magazine - Sweet & Sour Issue 

⏩ Watermelon Metropolis Litro Magazine - Nature Issue

⏩ Mixtape for an Amusiac Sledgehammer Literary Journal

⏩ Three Hours and Seven Minutes Reflex Fiction Longlist 

⏩ I Am Coin  EllipsisZine

September 2021

⏩ Convenience Store Babies Janus Literary Issue 5

⏩ My Velcro Baby Retreat West Festival Micro Competition Winner

⏩ The Girl with the Farrah Fawcett Hair Emerge Literary Journal

⏩ We're playing doctors and nurses.... Paragraph Planet

⏩ Turtle on the Dotted Line Reflex Fiction

⏩ Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine  Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Winner

August 2021

⏩ Killing Flies  Scissors & Spackle (Emerge Literary Journal) 

⏩ Watering the Garden at 4am  The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang presents 'Millipede Ranch' from Blink Ink (Print)

July 2021

⏩ Babies Falling from the Sky Crack the Spine Anthology: The Year 2020 (Print)

⏩ Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner

⏩ Stain Rejection Letters 

⏩ Don't Tell Me What to Wear Paragraph Planet 

⏩ Leaving Him Ellipsis Zine Issue #9 (Print) 

June 2021

⏩ The Soft Th Janus Literary

⏩ No Birds' Nests in the Tree Next Door NFFD Flash Flood Journal

⏩ Cardiac Ablation 50 Word Stories

⏩ Contact Lenses in  Beguiled by a Wild Thing Anthology Reflex Press (Print)

May 2021 

⏩ In the Other's Mouth Emerge Literary Journal

⏩ The Alligator Clock Ellipsis Zine

⏩ The Recovery Position The Daily Drunk Magazine

April 2021 

⏩ Under the Kitchen Table SVJ Schuylkill Valley Journal 

⏩ Trespass to the Person Versification Misfit Micros

⏩ A Body of Water Reflex Fiction 

March 2021

⏩ Orphan Negative Paragraph Planet 

⏩ White Line  Gone Lawn

⏩ Forced Moulting Gone Lawn

⏩ Like Rain  Blues Doodles 

February 2021

⏩ She Leaves Offerings on Doorsteps Schuylkill Valley Journal (Print)

⏩ The Unbirthday at the Border Schuylkill Valley Journal (Print)

⏩ There is no Ocean in the Bucket  Schuylkill Valley Journal (Print)

⏩ Rot  Reflex Fiction 

January 2021

⏩ Meat Raffle  Janus Literary Journal

⏩ I Wear Other People  EllipsisZine

⏩ Providing Opportunities For Another to Excel  50 - Word Stories

⏩ On the 11th day of Christmas   Paragraph Planet 

December 2020

⏩ Sowing Sea Meadows   Litro

⏩ The Man I Live With The Hunterian - Alcohol in the Archives Journal

⏩ How I Wonder  Friday Flash Fiction

⏩ Pine  Friday Flash Fiction

⏩ Between Rivers  City Lit Anthology: Between the Lines 2020 (Print & Ebook )  

⏩ Menhirs  Friday Flash Fiction

November 2020

⏩ The Black-lacquered Bowl  Fudoki

⏩ The Succulent  50 - Word Stories

⏩ Beans  Mum Life Stories - Competition & Anthology

October 2020

⏩ The Indentation of Pearls  Hysteria 21 - Competition and Anthology

⏩ Dear Joy  Friday Flash Fiction

⏩ The Proper Respect for Water  London Independent Story Prize

⏩ Bubble-wrap and Brown Paper  Virtualzine

September 2020

⏩ Cloudburst '72  The London Reader - Cyberpunk 2020 1ssue

⏩ Contact Lenses  Reflex Fiction Longlist

⏩ Connected  Paragraph Planet

⏩ Overcharged with Dead  Mslexia Issue #87 (Print)

August 2020

⏩ Remington Made Typewriters  Friday Flash Fiction

⏩ Paper Cranes  50 - Word Stories

⏩ Duck and Cover  Liars League - Performed by Lin Sagovsky

⏩ Landed My First Kick-flip  Paragraph Planet

July 2020

⏩ Covid Time Capsule Items List (Archive Copy)  100 Words of Solitude - Life in the Time of Corona

⏩ a measurement of silence in one hundred words  Fish Publishing - Lockdown Prize & Anthology - Third Place

June 2020

⏩ The Berlin Heart  Paper and Ink Literary Zine #16 - The Rebellion Issue (Print)

⏩ Circle Time  Bridge House Publishing - Waterloo Festival Competition Anthology

⏩ Rubin's Vase  NFFD Flash Flood Journal

May 2020

⏩ The Karma Economy  Crack the Spine: The Year Anthology (Print)

April 2020

⏩ 7 Photos Lie on My Mother's Body  Thorn Literary Magazine

⏩ Rising and Falling with the Sea  Thorn Literary Magazine

⏩ The Birthday Cake Approaches  Paragraph Planet

⏩ Tulips for the Homeless  Reflex Fiction

March 2020

⏩ The Room on the Ledge  The Wellington Review Issue #5

⏩ The Cubital Fossa  EllipsisZine Issue #7: She Cries Honey Anthology (Print)

⏩ Other Uses for a Woman's Body  Lunate International Women's Day Micro Competition Winner

⏩ Life Sentence Mslexia: Issue #85 (Print)

February 2020

⏩ Pancakes  Paragraph Planet

⏩ Harvest  Crack the Spine: Neighbours Anthology (Print)

Pre 2020

⏩ Fruit is the New Gold  Paragraph Planet

⏩ Submarine  Jellyfish Review: Issue #51 Metalheads

⏩ Red Grass  The London Reader: The Motherhood Issue   (Print)

⏩ My Father the Somniloquist  Short Edition: Online and Story Dispensers 

⏩ Flamingos of the Salinas  Spread the Word: City of Stories Anthology (Print)

⏩ My Mother Left Me for a Tree  Retreat West: Word for Freedom - Anthology Celebrating 100 years of Women's Suffrage (Print)

⏩ The Old Man and The Balloon  The Magnolia Review - Balloon Issue

⏩ Under the Gaze of the Lion  EllipsisZine

⏩ Rusted  Paper and Ink Literary Zine # - The Punk Issue (Print)

⏩ The Shop of Preserved Curiosities  Dear Damsels - Curiosity Issue

⏩ Soul Brothers  NFFD Flash Flood Journal

⏩ Lost Words   Friday Flash Fiction