April 2023:
I’m the judge for the Ellipsis Zine flash collection contest
February 2023:
I headlined Verbose (Manchester spoken word night) alongside the incredible Tania Hershman
I undertook a residential research trip at Gladstone’s Library focused on folklore (part of my DYCP project)
December 2022:
I received a DYCP grant from Arts Council England to support me to complete my debut novel
November 2022:
My CNF A House That Refuses to Be Haunted was published in Ellipsis Zine
October 2022:
The short story I entered for the BBC National Short Story Award made it to the unofficial longlist – top 60 out of 850 entries
I was a guest on the Series of Dots Podcast hosted by Ellipsis Zine
September 2022:
I am the judge for the Winter round of the Reflex Flash Fiction competition – and sadly this will be the last!
July 2022:
A short story of mine was a ‘notable contender’ in the Bristol Prize
June 2022:
My flash fiction It’s Only A Cell If You Call It One And We Never Did was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50
April 2022:
My flash fiction Dark /Matter longlisted in the Reflex flash fiction competition
March 2022:
Short story May We Know Them published in the Fly on the Wall Press Anthology, Of Myths and Mothers and launched at Blackwell’s Manchester
I have been selected for inclusion in the National Flash Fiction Day anthology for the second year running, with Untamed, At Last
January 2022:
I am the first quarter judge for the long-running Flash 500 competition
I was shortlisted for the Virtual Zine 300 word competition
My National Flash Fiction Day anthology story Me and Joe and The Rainbow has been nominated for Best Small Fictions
November 2021:
My short story May We Know Them has been chosen for the next Fly on The Wall Press shorts anthology, Of Myths and Mothers
My flash fiction, It’s Only a Cell if You Call it One and We Never Did, was published by Ellipsis Zine
October 2021:
My radio story, Clara, received a special mention in the 3 Minutes Scare contest at North Manchester FM, judged by horror legend Ramsey Campbell
Another CBNC listing in the fiercely competitive Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster contest
September 2021:
I contributed a spoken word piece to the Lone Women Wood at Sanctuary 2021
May 2021:
Among These Animals shortlisted in the Best Novella category at the 2021 Saboteur Awards
My story The Witch Who Walked the Shore won first prize in the Janus Literary ‘dark, wild sea’ competition
March 2021:
Among These Animals, my debut novella-in-flash published by Ellipsis
My story Me And Joe and the Rainbow is to be published in the forthcoming National Flash Fiction Day Anthology
November 2020:
My story Something Like Drowning was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and is now included in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2021
October 2020:
I was placed second in the Bridport Prize flash fiction category with my story Tamed
September 2020:
For the second year running I am featured in the Best British and Irish Flash Fiction (known as the BIFFY 50). The editors chose my Reflex fiction second prize winner, So Far Over the Rainbow the Rainbow is a Fucking Dot
June 2020:
I received a Northern Writer’s Award from New Writing North in the Northern Debut category, for my short story collection Girls Who Get Taken & Other Stories
March 2020:
My story So Far Over the Rainbow the Rainbow is a Fucking Dot was awarded second place in the Reflex Flash Fiction Competition
I had a micro shortlisted in the National Flash Fiction Day competition, for the third year running
February 2020:
My story Some Things in and Out of the Garden at the Smith Family Barbecue was longlisted in the Mslexia flash fiction competition (it went on to be published in the National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood in June)
January 2020:
Another nomination for Cleft, this time my Bath flash winning story has been nominated for Best Small Fictions
I was the first quarter judge for the Retreat West Flash Fiction competition.
My Personal Anthology (12 of my favourite short stories) was published on www.apersonalanthology.com – a brilliant resource for short fiction lovers
November 2019:
A bumper month for nominations, thank you so much to the editors.
Pushcart Prize nominations from Liminal Residency for There’s a Merman Under the Log Flume at Alton Towers, from Ellipsis Zine for Before the Nose, from Bath Flash Fiction for Cleft and from Virtual Zine for The Life She Gave Me
Best Microfictions nomination for Great Sorrows are Mute from National Flash Fiction Day
October 2019:
I attended the Liminal Residency Alton Towers book launch and read my piece There’s a Merman Under the Log Flume at Alton Towers
September 2019:
I had two stories selected for the BIFFY 50 – a list of the best British and Irish flash fiction of the year. The editors chose The Pelt Collector from MoonPark Review and Al fine / To The End from Train Lit Mag
Two of my stories were nominated for Best of the Net – The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It from Barrelhouse and To My Three Year Old, Naked in the Bath from Ellipsis.
August 2019:
I performed at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of That’s What She Said – an incredible experience.
Another Close But No Cigar shoutout in the Molotov wild flash contest.
My story, Something Like Drowning, won third prize in the Anton Chekov Award for Very Short Fiction, run by National Flash Fiction Review. Judge Angela Readman had this to say:
“What struck me about Something Like Drowning was how incredibly well structured it is. It’s wonderfully vivid and startling at the beginning, daring the reader to come on this journey. It almost felt dangerous to follow these characters, so much seemed st stake, yet it was impossible to look away. I had no idea what would happen, yet the writing is so strong I knew I was in safe hands. The story delivered.”
June 2019:
My story Cleft won first prize in the 12th Bath Flash Fiction Award, judged by Christopher Allen.
The Thing Between Your Legs longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. Read the final selections here: http://wigleaf.com/
My story, What 20p Will Get You in the Year of Our Lord, 1996 was highly commended in the Federation Writers Scotland competition
May 2019:
Close But No Cigar shout out in the Molotov Cocktail Flash Legends competition.
April 2019:
I attended the Liminal Residency at Alton Towers, read my on-site interview here.
My self-published flash fiction pamphlet, Business As Usual received a special mention at the Saboteur Awards.
March 2019:
A busy month for competitions! Shortlisted for both the Flash 500 and TSS Flash Fiction competitions. Highly commended in the National Flash Fiction Day micro competition.
Also in March, I performed a feature set at That’s What She Said Manchester and was a guest performer with the Real Story at the Not Quite Light Festival.
February 2019:
I won joint first prize in the Funny Pearls micro competition.
January 2019:
My second Close But No Cigar in a Molotov Cocktail flash competition.
I headlined at Verbose spoken word night alongside Rosie Garland and Michael Conley.
I launched my limited edition print flash fiction pamphlet, Business As Usual, which sold out within 6 weeks!
You can read a review from Storgy here.
Originally posted 2020-01-05 11:47:22.
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