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 podcast, guest speaker, October 2022
- Edinburgh Fringe, That’s What She Said, featured guest, August 2019
- That’s What She Said, featured guest, March 2019
- Not Quite Light Festival, guest performer, March 2019
- Verbose Spoken Word Night, headline act, February 2019
- WAM (Words and Music) Festival, guest performer, October 2018
Workshops / Seminars
- Sculpting a Short Story Collection, online, Comma Press, a series of four 2-hour workshops, April – May 2024
- Writing Poetic Prose, Manchester, Comma Press x Write Out Loud, 1-hour workshop, April 2024
- Successfully Bringing The Strange Into Your Stories, Manchester, 2-hour workshop, March 2024
- Sculpting a Short Story Collection, Manchester, Comma Press, a series of four 2-hour workshops, Feb – March 2024
- Writing Short Horror Fiction, online, For Books’ Sake Witch Season, 2-hour workshop, October 2022
- Mastering Microfiction, online, Crow Collective, 2-hour workshop, October 2022
- Editing Short Fiction, online, Retreat West, 1-hour workshop, March 2022
- An Introduction to Flash Fiction, Mold, The Big Word Weekend, 2-hour workshop, November 2021
- Go Weird or Go Home, online, Northern Writer’s Studio, 2-hour workshop, December 2021
- Successfully Bringing The Strange Into Your Stories, online, Retreat West, 90-minute seminar, November 2021
- The Art Of The Micro, online, Retreat West Flash Fest, 90-minute workshop, April 2020
- Go Weird or Go Home, Didsbury, Didsbury Arts Festival, 2-hour workshop, June 2019
- Fast Fiction, 2-hour workshop, Burnley Literature Festival, June 2018
- Friday Flashing, online, regular sessions, Retreat West, 1-hour workshops providing prompts and critiquing work, through 2021 / 2022
Competition Judging / Reading
- Flash 500, flash fiction stories, January 2024
- Ellipsis Zine, flash fiction collections / novellas, April 2023
- Reflex, flash fiction stories, September 2023
- Flash 500, flash fiction stories, January 2022
- Retreat West, themed flash fiction stories, June 2020
Grants / Awards
- Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice, The Wild Ones (project to make a step-change from short fiction to novels), December 2022
- Northern Debut Award, Northern Writers’ Awards (short story collection, Girls Who Get Taken), June 2020
- Northern Writer Of The Year, Northern Soul Awards, November 2018
Residencies
- Alton Towers, 26th – 28th April 2019, The Liminal Residency (alternative writers’ retreats which take place in neglected or unusual spaces)
Selected Competition Placings
- First prize Janus Literary, 2021
- First prize Bath Flash Fiction, 2019
- First prize Maírtin Crawford Award, 2018
- First prize Funny Pearls Microfiction Contest, 2019
- Second prize Bridport Prize, 2020
- Second prize Reflex Flash Fiction, 2020
- Second prize FlashBack Fiction, 2018
- Third prize Anton Chekov Award For Very Short Fiction, 2020
- Highly commended National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Contest, 2019
- Highly commended Federation Writers Scotland Short Story Contest, 2019
- Notable contender Bristol Prize, 2022
- Shortlisted Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2020
- Shortlisted Flash 500, 2019
- Shortlisted TSS Flash Fiction, 2019
- Longlisted Mslexia Flash Fiction, 2020
- Longlisted Flash 500 Novel Opening, 2023
- Longlisted BBC National Short Story Award, 2022
Selected Publications
Novella:
- Among These Animals, novella-in-flash, 2021, shortlisted in best novella category at the Saboteur Awards
Short Stories:
- Advent, commissioned and published by Levenshulme Old Library, 2024
- May We Know Them (anthologised in Of Myths and Mothers), Fly On The Wall, 2022
- Seeds (anthologised in To Hull And Back), 2018
Flash Fiction / Creative Non-fiction / Microfiction:
- Time and Tide, MoonPark Review, March 2023
- A House That Refuses To Be Haunted, Ellipsis, November 2022
- It’s Only A Cell If You Call It One and We Never Did, Ellipsis, November 2021
- Teenage Girls Screaming In Cars, The Lone Women Wood, September 2021
- The Numbers Game, Okay Donkey, May 2019
- Amongst These Animals, The Forge, March 2019
- A Series Of Small Things, Ellipsis, March 2019
- The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It, Barrelhouse, March 2019
- Butterfly Kisses, Spelk, March 2018
Non-fiction:
- Go Weird or Go Home, article, Writers HQ, March 2021
- Weird Northern Writing, article, Northern Soul, July 2020
- A Personal Anthology, short story selection, January 2020
Nominations / Selections
- A House That Refuses To Be Haunted, selected for Wigleaf Top 50, June 2023
- It’s Only A Cell If You Call It One And We Never Did, longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50, June 2022
- Cleft, Best Small Fictions nomination, January 2020
- So Far Over the Rainbow the Rainbow is a Fucking Dot, selected for The Best British and Irish Flash Fiction 2020
- The Thing Between Your Legs, longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50, June 2019
- The Pelt Collector and Al Fine / The End, selected for The Best British and Irish Flash Fiction 2019
- There’s A Merman Under The Log Flume At Alton Towers, Pushcart Prize nomination, November 2019
- Before The Nose, Pushcart Prize nomination, November 2019
- Cleft, Pushcart Prize nomination, November 2019,
- The Life She Gave Me, Pushcart Prize nomination, November 2019
- The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It, Best of The Net nomination, September 2019
- To My Three Year Old, Naked In The Bath, Best of the Net nomination, September 2019
- Great Sorrows are Mute, Best Microfictions nomination, November 2019
Originally posted 2020-01-05 11:47:22.