Thanks to Amanda Tuke & Helen Jones for another brilliant workshop. This time the theme was looking at nature through frames – and it made me think of the time I was dive-bombed by jackdaws and crows while having a sneaky early morning coffee in “Chicken Centre”. The thumbnails are now anthologised and you can …
I’m in equal parts shell-shocked and delighted my piece, My Blackthorn is a Tree, won the prose category in the Urban Tree Festival. More info here. As well as the super illustration by Alban Low, which arrived today, I’ve the opportunity to have my own chapbook published. So, I’m currently pulling together themes (one of …
I’m delighted to have just heard my flash fiction “Domestic” has been selected for inclusion in the London Independent Story Prize Anthology for 2023. This piece was the result of a Mslexia and a LISP workshop, and much playing around with the theme of “time”. Link to annoucement here.
Delighted to be be published in this Summer’s Edition of The Phare Magazine with my flash fiction piece, Goody’s Last Rave.
I am delighted to be in such good company in the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Anthology, Emergence. The piece I wrote was inspired by a Swift we found collapsed in Cricklade High Street & took to Oak & Farrows at Blakehill for recuperation. With thanks to Derek Keats for the featured image, reproduced under Creative Commons …
Delighted to be among the shortlisted entries in the Phare’s Write Words 2022, Flash Fiction section with my piece Wilfrid Fox, veteran physician and arborist, embarks again. Sadly there are no prizes for the longest title. Congratulations to Valerie Fox, the winners, and Geoff Mead, the runner up. I very much look forward to reading …
