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Stories for Homes

I’m very proud to be involved in the Stories for Homes project. All proceeds from the two Stories for Homes anthologies go directly to Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity. You can find out more about Stories for Homes here.

Credits

2022

Slow Down for Armadillos included in the Flash Flood Journal as part of National Flash Fiction Day 2022.

Completed the Cornerstones  Literary Agency 18-week Edit Your Novel course. 

Flash fiction story Too Close, Too Low selected for the 2022 National Flash Fiction Anthology And We Lived Happily Ever After.

Here Lies Guido Perkins long listed for the Cheshire Novel Award 2022.

2021

High Commended in the Costa Short Story Award 2021, one of two judges’ picks for runner up, behind the top three.

Slow Down for Armadillos published online by FlashFlood Journal.

Here Lies Guido Perkins longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021 and awarded the Cornerstones Literary Agency Prize for the most promising longlisted manuscript.

Flash fiction story The Poet published in Legerdemain, the National Flash Fiction Day 2021 anthology.

One of a panel of judges for the National Flash Fiction Day 2021 Micro competition.

2020

Finalist in the Jericho Writers Summer Festival of Writing 2020 Friday Night Live competition, for the opening of novel-in-progress, entered with working title His Mother’s Son.

Novel-in-Progress longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2020.

Tips for a Successful Whale Watch highly commended in the National Flash Fiction Day 2020 Microfiction Competition and published in the NFFD 2020 anthology, Root, Branch, Tree.

Peck, Pearl, Perfection micro fiction published by Lunate Fiction.

Snakes and Snails placed third in the Scottish Arts Club Flash Fiction Award 2020 and published in Life on the Margins: Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards Volume 2

Flash fiction story A Body Remembers published in the Bath Flash Fiction Award’s fourth anthology, With One Eye on the Cows.

2019

Not Gone Yet nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2019.

Nonna No Name nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2019 and Best Small Fictions 2019.

Short story Game On published by the Scottish Arts Trust in their anthology The Desperation Game.

Historic flash fiction Nonna No Name published by FlashBack Fiction.

Flash story Dancing with the Doors published in the National Flash Fiction Day anthology And We Pass Through.

Flash story Not Gone Yet published online by Flash Flood Journal

Story in three tweets chosen as an Editor’s Pick in the Mythic Picnic Tweet-Story Project V3. Click here to read the linked tweets on Twitter. 

Flash story A Body Remembers shortlisted for the 11th Bath Flash Award and accepted for publication in their forthcoming anthology (due out in December 2019).

2018

Honourable mention for flash fiction story Star of the Sea in the inaugural Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction.

Short story Roast Potatoes short listed for the Retreat West Short Story Competition and published in the Impermanent Facts anthology.

Flash story Shenanigans longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and accepted for publication in Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Three.

Short story The River is Always Right shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award and accepted for publication in their 2018 anthology

Third place in the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction competition with A Nice Piece of Linoleum, published in Ripening, along with flash story Borderline.

Flash story Leopard Spots published online by Flash Flood Journal

In Litore Veritas published in Barely Casting a Shadow by Reflex Fiction

Overspill published in Ellipsis Zine Two: A flash fiction anthology

2017

Novel Start Wearing Purple for Me Now (working title) longlisted for the Bath Novel Award.

Nothing At All selected as the Flash of the Month for July 2017 by The Word Factory as part of their Citizen Festival.

Teeter Totter Tattletale published in the National Flash Fiction Day anthology Sleep is a Beautiful Colour.

Short story Emptiness in Harmony selected for inclusion in the Stories for Homes 2 anthology, in support of Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity.

Micro fiction Mitosis published online by Flash Flood Journal

2016

Flash fiction Because of the Moon published online by Flash Flood Journal.

2015

Flash story The Reality Game published online by Flash Flood Journal.

2014

First place in Flash 500 with Lesson in Horticulture,  subsequently published by Words with Jam.

Flash fiction Full Belly Moon published online by Flash Flood Journal.

2013

Control longlisted for the Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize and subsequently published in the Flash Flood Journal.

A Prime Candidate published in Synaesthesia Magazine. 

Drowning in Fresh Air published in the Stories for Homes anthology.

Three flash stories published online by Flash Flood Journal: 

The Path of Least Resistance

Night Terror

Control

2012

The Twenty-Year Cataclysm placed third in the New Writer Magazine short story competition and published in their July/Aug/Sept 2013 edition.

Short story Playing Dead wins first place in the Balsall Writers Short Story Competition.

The Air Above My Head published by Every Day Fiction and recorded as a podcast.

Flash fiction Nests published online by Flash Flood Journal

2011

Short story On Ice shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award Short Story Competition and published in their anthology The Tipping Point.

2010

Short story Holding Patterns commissioned for inclusion in 33 West, an anthology of stories based on the 33 boroughs of London.

2009

Winner of the NYCMidnight Flash Fiction Challenge with a suite of four stories, in a series of knock-out rounds of writing to a prompt.