Links to published stories and poems

Here are links to stories, poetry and articles that I’ve had published. I’ve included forthcoming work and a list of competition successes. If you read any of them, I hope you enjoy them:

Published Stories

‘Brica-brica-brica on Mount Anvil‘ in Queen Mob’s Tea House
‘The Tower’ longlisted for Arachne Press’ Solstice Shorts Festival.
‘Distant View of a Thought Leaving’ in Ambit 234
‘My Greenland Halibut’ published in LossLit Issue 8
‘The Forthcoming Confessions of Krąybłtę’ published in the Words for the Wild anthology
‘Five Parts’ in Storgy
‘White-Eyed Bird with Red Beak’ published in Cosmonauts Avenue
‘Girl in a Borrowed Cloak’ (flash) in Lonesome October Lit
‘Girl Who Spiralled’ (flash) in Lonesome October Lit
‘Girl Wrapped in Beads’ (flash) in Ellipsis
‘Boystown SA’ published in the New Welsh Reader
‘Three Girls Sing a Sutartine’ in 3:AM Magazine
‘Girl Who Climbed’ (flash) in the Paragram anthology
‘Love and Glitter’ in Synaesthesia Magazine
‘A Pylon, a Dress and the Rattle of Reeds’ in Lakeview Journal
‘Gloves of Gdańsk’ in Litro and on the London Underground
‘The Cellist and the Wolves’ in The Lampeter Review:
‘Balancing on Ladders’ (flash) in Vine Leaves Literary Journal
‘Three Dark Steps and the Parrot’ in The Medulla Review
‘A Girl and Her Skin’ in Female First
‘The Flute Player’ in Flashfloods
‘Volare’ in Synaesthesia Magazine
‘Minute Music’ on Writers&Artists
‘Sleeping with Bees’ in The Yellow Room:
‘A Winding Silver Path’ in Literary Mama:
‘The Chair’ in Cigale Literary Magazine:
‘Room of the Dead’ (flash) in Flashfloods:
‘Perfectly Black Sky’ in ‘Scraps’: NFFD Anthology
‘Poison Hands’ in The Bristol Prize Anthology
‘Elevator’ in Flashfloods
‘The Mount’ shown in ‘Pyramid Schemes’ a collaborative work between artist, Lawrence Lek and The White Review
‘UPVC Soffits and Bloody Red Meat’ in The New Writer
‘Dancing Round the Yellow Bowl’ in The New Writer
‘Girl in the Chapel’ (flash) at Co-Curate an arts project created by the London Sinfonietta and Kingston University entitled Beauty in Imperfection
‘The Harp and the Thorn Tree’ in Unthology 7
‘The Laundry’ in Spelk

Published Poems

“Squid of Nondescript Household Places’ is published by The Ofi Press.
‘Watching a fish on a cutting board’ in Atrium.
‘Concert at the Doge’s Palace with Fans‘ is published in Ink, Sweat and Tears and also shortlisted for Poem of the Month
‘The Great Eel of Jazz’ in the Humanagerie anthology
‘Temptation No. 3: Sunrise’ is published in The Cabinet of Heed
‘This Party Isn’t Free’ is in Riggwelter
‘Tired Old Meat‘ in Lonesome October Lit
‘This Land of Dill’ is published in Under the Radar Issue 21
‘Bells and Marigolds’ published in The Pre-Raphaelite Review and gained 2nd place in The Pre-Raphaelite Society’s Poetry Competition
‘Nude in a Red Box’ published in the Loose Muse Anthology
‘Bob and his Plans for his Double Bass’ Highly commended in The Winchester Poetry Festival competition, published in ‘Somewhere to keep the rain’, the festival anthology. Winner of the Hampshire prize.
‘Debt Frequently Precludes Hope’ commended in the Winchester Poetry Festival competition and published in ‘Somewhere to keep the rain’, the festival anthology
‘Still Stalks’ forthcoming in Prelude 4
‘Mushrooms’ forthcoming in Prelude 4
‘Red Zip’ at The Woven Tale Press
‘A Stone for Seeing’ in Paragram anthology
‘Dear John’ – published online in Magma and 3rd place in the Magma / Winchester Poetry Festival Pop-up Competition
‘Madame Tulip’ at Visual Verse
‘The Coat’ in Bare Hands Poetry
‘Blues’ at Flashpoints:
‘A Mad and Hate-filled Lover’ at Flashpoints:
‘Girl in a Borrowed Coat’ displayed in Winchester Cathedral
‘The Old Woman’ displayed at Pallant House Gallery and won the NADFAS Poetry Competition
‘Conn Pre-War Sax in the Window of Cash Converters’ in .Cent magazine
10 poems inspired by Lucy Ash’s paintings on show at West Ox Arts Gallery

Articles

On Yiyun Li at Thresholds
On Ludmilla Petrushevskaya at Thresholds
On Simon Van Booys at Thresholds
On Bruno Schultz at Over the Red Line

Competition Listings

‘Breath’ shortlisted for the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize.
‘Bells and Marigolds’ gained 2nd place in The Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition and is published in The Pre-Raphaelite Review
‘Bob and his Plans for his Double Bass’ Highly commended in The Winchester Poetry Festival competition, published in the festival anthology. Winner of the Hampshire prize.
‘Debt Frequently Precludes Hope’ commended in the Winchester Poetry Festival competition and published in the festival anthology
‘Five Parts’ – shortlisted in the 2016 London Magazine Competition
‘Carving Strangers’ – commended in The New Welsh Review Novella Awards 2016
‘Boystown S.A.’ – highly commended in The New Welsh Review Memoir Awards 2016
‘Stone for Seeing’ – shortlisted in the 2016 Paragram Paradox Poetry Competition.
‘Girl Who Climbed’ – shortlisted in the 2016 Paragram Paradox Petit Prose Competition.
‘Dear John’ Letter to Keats – 3rd place in the 2016 Magma/Winchester Poetry Festival pop-up comp.
‘Love and Glitter’ winner of the 2014 Synaesthesia Competition
‘Poison Hands’ shortlisted for the 2013 Bristol Prize
‘Gloves of Gdańsk’ winner of the 2013 Litro/Poland Bruno Schulz Competition
‘Minute Music’ runner-up in the 2014 Writers & Artists Short Story Competition
‘Volare’ shortlisted for the 2014 InkTears Short Story Competition
‘The Cherrywood Box’ awarded a 2014 fellowship by Summer Literary Seminars Contest
‘Value’ longlisted for the 2014 Fish Flash Fiction Competition
‘Love and Glitter’ longlisted for the 2014 InkTears Short Story Competition
‘The Cherrywood Box’ winner of the 2103 Eludia Awards
‘Carting’ shortlisted for the 2013 Lightship Memoir Prize
‘Sleeping with Bees’ 2nd place in the 2012 Yellow Room Spring Competition
‘The Cherrywood Box’ highly commended in the 2012 Yeovil Prize Novel Competition
‘Past Continuous’ shortlisted for an Asham Award
‘The Chair’ shortlisted for an Asham Award
‘Little One’ on the 2012 Fish Memoir longlist
‘The Old Woman’ won the NADFAS Poetry Competition
Story on Mslexia shortlist 2012
Story on Fish longlist 2012
Start of a novel runner-up in Mail on Sunday Novel-Writing Competition
‘Dancing Round the Yellow Bowl’ winner of an Ian St. James Award – back in the 90s sometime