Writing
2023
Grown Ups - National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood
2022
Void - Friday Flash Fiction
The Day I Asked My Sister For Support With My Divorce - Longlisted, Free Flash Fiction, Competition 8
Annie Stevens' Tree of Life - Shortlisted, Urban Tree Festival 'Healing Trees' competition
Even the Collared Doves and Wood Pigeons Have All Gone - National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood
Where Nothing and Everything Matters - Longlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Summer 2022
On Opposite Sides of a Manhattan Table - in Flash Fiction Festival Five Anthology 2022
2021
Placings and honourable mentions
The Pink Flowers of the Christmas Cactus Rise - Longlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Spring
Blown Glass Birds - Honourable mention - Technical Challenge, Flash Fiction Festival, April
How was the Shoot? - Honourable mention, Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest, Spring
Air is Lighter than Water - Winner - Technical Challenge, Flash Fiction Festival, July
A Blank Canvas Patterned With Red Hearts - Longlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Autumn.
Other publications
Lemonology - Idle Ink
That's What Families Do - Free Flash Fiction
Hey, Pretty Flamingo - National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood
Wild Irises Grow Strong and When Life is Hard - circular poems published on Poet's Post, Easter Craiglockhart Hill
I'm Not Going to Visit Auntie Margaret - Paragraph Planet
2020
Once, at sunset, there were stars - Runner up, Lightbox Originals, Photo prompt competition
Vaulting the Picket Fence - The Cabinet of Heed
2019
And breathe - Funny Pearls
Stones Heavy in Their Pockets - FlashBack Fiction
Petticoats and Dirty Linen - National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood
Hey, Pretty Flamingo - Flash Fiction Festival Three
His Warmth a Shock, Like Electricity - Riggwelter Press
Red-raw - Ellipsis Zine
2018
Will there be Coco Pops for breakfast? - Brilliant Flash Fiction (scroll down linked page to find this story)
Tenure - Shortlisted, Brilliant Flash Fiction Art Prompt Contest (scroll down linked page to find this story)
1-2-5 - Placed 4th, The Casket of Fictional Delights Competition
Cycling Through - National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood
Creative Non-Fiction
When Louis Armstrong Sang - Longleaf Review
2017
Bottle - Longlisted, Fish Flash Fiction Competition
The Ties That Bind - Runner Up, The Casket of Fictional Delights
Ada looked at the tinsel-dressed tree - Paragraph Planet
Pre-2016
Only you're not - Shortlisted, Fish Flash Fiction Competition
In the wake of the storm - Longlisted, Fish Short Story Competition
Four walls - Longlisted, Fish Short Story Competition
Shifting Sands - 2nd place, Anderson's Oddities, Strathclyde University
She Had to Know - Flash Fiction Magazine
Pirouette - Octavius Magazine
Resurrection (poem) - Quotidian
Falling - Scottish Book Trust - Journeys
Keep pedalling, Fraser! - Paragraph Planet
Non-fiction
After they've flown - Sunday Herald magazine
Readings

May 2018

Flash Fiction Festival, Bristol
July 2023