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Literary Journals: Work
Publications and Awards
Short Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
My Big Fat Spanish Funeral
Electric Storm
Wigleaf Top Fifty 2023
Wigleaf
(Originally published in New Flash Fiction Review)
The Mechanics of Speech
The Forge Literary Magazine
Winner of the 2023 Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net
Double Lives
1st place for flash fiction
Manchester Writing School & Manchester School of Theatre
QuietManDave Prize 2022
Package Holiday: Monastir, All Inclusive
Finalist 2022 Blue Frog Contest, Flash Frog
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Art by Laurie Marshall
The Phantom Limbs of Memory
2025
"Absence Makes the Heart" (Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Seven, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2025)
"How to Fix a Dripping Tap" (Paris Lit Up Magazine No. 12, 2025)
2024
"Visiting Lenin's Tomb" (Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Nine, 2024, Bath Flash Fiction Award, First Place Winner & Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/
Judge's report
Author's Q&A
"The Centripetal Force" (Manchester Writing School & Manchester School of Theatre QuietManDave Prize 2024, Longlisted for flash fiction)
"Elephant" (Bending Genres, Issue Forty, August 2024)
https://bendinggenres.com/
"Yellow Straw, Red Straw" (Fractured Lit, June 2024, reprint: first published by Reflex Fiction)
https://fracturedlit.com/
"My Big Fat Spanish Funeral" (The Four Faced Liar, Issue 03, December 2024)
"Back At The House" (National Flash Fiction Day NZ, June 2024, Micro Madness, Shortlisted)
https://nationalflash.org/
"August on Island of Evia: Forest Fires" (Splonk, Issue 11, April 2024)
https://splonk.ie/
"Entanglement" (Quantum Shorts Volume 2 in partnership with Scientific American, Finalist: Flash Fiction Contest 2024)
https://shorts.quantumlah.org/
"Unseen" (Skeins: Stories by women, Linen Press, 2024, Longlisted, Plaza Prize for prose poetry)
"The Story You'll Never Tell" (Fractured Lit, March 2024)
https://fracturedlit.com/
"Significant Other" (Fictive Dream, Flash Fiction February 2024, Shortlisted for SmokeLong Quarterly’s Summer Fiction Contest)
https://fictivedream.com/
Blog on accompanying artwork by Claudia McGill:
https://claudiamcgillart.com/
"Russian Bookshop, London, 1991" (The Edinburgh Anthology Volume 1: The Outlier and other Stories, Scottish Arts Trust, 2024, Shortlisted, Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction)
"Back Then, At Sea" (WOW! Women On Writing, 2024, Runner-up, Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, first published in ‘And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing’ Alternating Current Press)
https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/
"Bruised Fruit" (TENacity: Brilliant Flash Fiction's 10th Anniversary Anthology, Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2024)
"Mother’s Wordsearch in the Waiting Room of Her Mute Five-year-old Son’s Speech Therapist" (Cutbow Quarterly Issue 6, January 2024)
2023
"Electric Storm" (Wigleaf Top Fifty, 2023)
https://wigleaf.com/
"Stress" (‘The Weather Where You Are’:Bath Flash Fiction Volume Eight, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2023)
"We All Want To Be Overdressed For The Afterlife" (Beaver Magazine, Issue 8: The Fall Issue 2023)
"The Gallbladder Monologues" (‘Awakenings: Stories of Body and Consciousness’, ELJ Editions, 2023)
"Raw Dough Rising" (Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Six, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2023, reprint: Third Place Winner, IamInPrint festival flash fiction competition)
"Were you Ever There?" (Scratching the Sands: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023, National Flash Fiction Day Press, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
"What I Tell My Son When I Watch Him Through My Windscreen After Drop-off" (Hope is The Thing: An Anthology, Lucent Dreaming, 2023, First Place, Lucent Dreaming Flash Fiction contest)
"Trust the Process" (Centaur Issue 3 Fall 2023, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
https://centaurlit.com/
"The Mechanics of Speech" (The Forge Literary Magazine, First Place Winner of the 2023 Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net)
https://forgelitmag.com/
"Double Lives" (Fuel: An anthology of prize-winning flash fictions, 2023, reprint)
"Fogged Horizons" (Stanchion Magazine Issue 13, October 2023)
"Red Books" (Flash Flood Journal, National Flash Fiction Day 2023, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best Small Fictions)
"Undertow" (The Phare, Summer ’23 Issue)
"Why We No Longer Take Risks" (South Florida Poetry Journal, August 2023, Issue # 30, Poetry)
https://www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/
"Turf" (Leon Literary Review, Issue # 22, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net)
https://leonliteraryreview.com/
"Wall Space" (NFFD NZ Micro Madness 2023, Winner: Third Place - judged by Kathy Fish and Mikaela Nyman)
https://nationalflash.org/
"Roaring Twenties" (New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 28, 2023, WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST 2024)
2022
"Riptide" (‘Dandelion Years, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Seven’, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022, Highly Commended, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
"And If I Told You" (‘Dandelion Years, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Seven’, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022, Longlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award)
"Cold Toast" (Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Five, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2023, Third Place Winner, Great Festival Flash Off Writing Challenge)
"Double Lives" (First Place Winner, Manchester Writing School & Manchester School of Theatre QuietManDave Prize for flash fiction, 2022)
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/
"Unvoiced" (Manchester Writing School & Manchester School of Theatre QuietManDave Prize, shortlisted for flash non-fiction)
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/
"Electric Storm" (New Flash Fiction Review, 2022, Runner- up New Flash Fiction Prize, selected for Wigleaf Top 50, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
https://newflashfiction.com/
"Mournography" (Ellipsis Zine, 2022)
"Back Then, At Sea" (‘And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative’, Alternating Current Press, 2022)
"Girls Night Out" (Ellipsis Zine, 2022)
"The Phantom Limbs of Memory" (Red Fez, 2022, first published in Overground Underground Magazine, Issue 2)
"When to Let Go" (Reflex Fiction, July 2022, Longlisted, International Flash Fiction Competition)
"Hotlines" (Pithead Chapel, volume 11 issue 7, 2022)
https://pitheadchapel.com/
"Midnight Sun" (bracken, issue ix, 2022)
https://www.brackenmagazine.com/
"Wine Tasting for Beginners" (FlashFlood Journal, June 2022)
"The Future Was Never Orange" (Fahmidan Journal, issue 12, 2022)
"Package Holiday: Monastir, All Inclusive" (Flash Frog, 2022, Finalist, Blue Frog Contest, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
https://flash-frog.com/
"Unbinding" (Bending Genres, Issue Twenty Six, April 2022, Nominated for 2022 Best Microfictions)
https://bendinggenres.com/
"When the Sprinkles Come Out" (Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Four, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022, Commended, Flash Fiction Festival contest)
2021
"No Words" (Snow Crow, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Six, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021, Shortlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Longlisted for the SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop prize, Featured on BBC Sounds)
"The Last Message" (Snow Crow, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Six, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021, Shortlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award)
"Aisle 9" (Emerge Journal, Issue 21, 2022)
https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/
"Cobweb" (Gastropoda, 2021)
https://gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com.com/
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Ellipsis Zine, 2021)
"Awakening" (Funny Pearls, 2021)
"Speech and Language Milestones" (Janus Literary Volume 1, Issue 3, 2021,
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
https://www.janusliterary.com/
"What’s Lost" (The Phare, Summer ’21 Issue)
https://www.thephare.com/
"The Third Time we Meet" (The Drabble, Issue May 2021)
"Book Review of Voices from the ‘Jungle’: Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp" (The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature Vol 1, Autumn 2021)
"The Phantom Limbs of Memory" (Overground Underground Magazine Issue #2, 2021)
"To His Naked Eye" (Ellipsis Zine, 2021)
"Old Hands" (Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2021)
https://thecentifictionist.home.blog/
"Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions" (Blink Pot International Flash Fiction Award, Special Commendation)
"Perpetual War: 1979" (Life Safari, Ellipsis Zine #9, 2021)
"Informant" (Paragraph Planet, reprinted by Flash Flood Journal, 2021)
https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/
"Shades of Limbo" (‘Branching Out: International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction’, Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2021)
"Parasitos" (Reflex Press, 2021, Longlisted, International Flash Fiction competition)
2020
"It’s Not What Happens to You" (‘Restore to Factory Settings: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Five,’ Ad Hoc Fiction, 2020, Longlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Featured on BBC Sounds)
"Lest we Perish" (Retreat West, 2020, First Place Winner Monthly Micro contest, Runner-up, Best Micro Opening Line)
"Terminus" (Lunate)
"Bloodstream" (Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2020, Shortlisted, Short Fiction contest, reprint)
"17 Albert Street" (Retreat West, 2020, First Place Winner Monthly Micro contest)
2016
"Bloodstream" (reprint, ‘From Syria With Love’, Indie Books, 2016)
"Bloodstream" (Paris Lit Up Magazine No4, 2016)
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