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About

Hi, I’m a writer – born in Wales, raised in Merseyside and currently living in Greater Manchester. I mostly write about wayward children and middle-aged women who’ve had enough, with a good dollop of dark weirdness. I’m represented by Laura Williams at Greene & Heaton. I’m the proud recipient of a 2020 Northern Writers’ Award […]

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Selected Publications

For a taster of my work, please click on the following links: The Thing Between Your Legs, (winner of Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award) Bending Genres It’s Only A Cell If You Call It One, And We Never Did  Ellipsis Zine (longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50) The Hardest Thing in This World is to Live in it […]

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Among These Animals 

Novella-in-flash

To outsiders they look wild, but mostly they are not. The farm children have always known how to play the dogs. They know the best places to tease them, lead them, escape them and hide from them. But lately Carys is struggling. One looks like it is going to eat her up whole, and she […]

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Girls Who Get Taken 

Short Story Collection

  You know three things about girls who get taken. They are broken. They come from bad homes. They are not you.  “A really striking collection of short stories … told in a heightened and unusual way. I was really excited by the writer’s voice.” – Amy Liptrot, Northern Debut Award judge Girls Who Get […]

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Workshops, events and appearances

Check for events below, or email gaynor@jonzey.com to discuss any opportunities. Please check the CV section of the website for examples of workshops, events, competition judging and residencies.  *NEW* FREE VIDEO TUTORIAL: FLASH FICTION, FROM PROMPT TO FIRST DRAFT  Upcoming: Motherhood Uncensored launch (special guest speaker), Station South, Levenshulme, 20th March, 7-8.30pm SOLD OUT Testimonials: I loved […]

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C.V. 

   

Appearances /Events Comma Press x Write Out Loud, Poetic Prose, panellist, April 2024 Levenshulme Old Library, Unheim-Lit, headline act, March 2024 Levenshulme Old Library, Ghosts At The Old Library, guest performer, December 2023 Retreat West Flash Fest, keynote speaker, September 2023 Verbose Spoken Word Night, headline act, February 2023 A Series of Dots, flash fiction […]

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