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I am a writer of poetry, short stories, flash fiction and novels and I live near London. I find mugs to tea, snacks and Trance music mixes from YouTube help the creative writing process! My preferred writing time is early morning but I will write anytime. I have successfully taken part in NaNoWriMo twice.  One morning I got up at 3am to write a scene. The draft novel is still sitting on my laptop!

My publishing record:

POETRY 

Magazines and e-zines:

Reach, 
Poetry Now,
What the Dickens?
Areopagus.
Visual Verse  - (author page) (about 30 pieces over the years)
The People's Friend Magazines and Fireside Book 2021 and 2022
Salopeot (Salopian Poetry Society)
Ink Sweat & Tears (2022)
Seaborne Magazine (2022)
Aayo (2022)
Streetcake ezine (2024)



Anthologies:

Spooky Tales (2014),
OU Poets (various)
Sounding out Heaven and Earth  (Spire Trust 2004)
Short Cuts Poetry
Light Through the Mist (edited by Helen Cox) 2018
Anthology for Poems in Plague Year 2020 - The Poetry Kit (online) 2020
The Poetrygram Annual 2020 (Helen Cox Books)

Competitions:

Highly commended in Borders/Kingston University Short Cuts Poetry (2004)
Runner up in Foyles 'Childhood Memories' online competition (2012).
Second Prize in Kingston Libraries Poetry Competition 2013 and 2016 and commended in 2014
Second Prize winner - The New Writer 17th Annual Prose & Poetry Competition 2013.
First Prize - Writers' Forum poem of the month competition 2022
Longlisted in The Poetry Kit Spring Competition 2022
Longlisted - The Poetry Kit Autumn Competition 2022





SHORT STORIES & FLASH FICTION:

Areopagus
Eyelands Anthology 2016 (shortlisted story in competition)
Paragraph Planet
50-Word Stories 
Visual Verse. (author page)
Gold Dust
Retreat West Short Story Writing Competition 2016 (shortlisted) Story published in What Was Left Anthology 2017
Nottingham Writers' Club Short Story Competition 2017 (longlisted)
Dorset Fiction Award 2017 (longlisted)
121 Words
Words Magazine short story competition on the theme of murder 2017 (shortlisted)
Write Time - short story competition - highly commended (2020)
Aayo Magazine (2022, 2024)
Popshot (2022)
Your Fire Magazine - longlisted (flash) (2022)
Foxglove Journal (flash) December 2022
Banshee Press (flash) December 2023



Books:

Where it Ends: A Novella-in-Flash (2021)
(available from Amazon) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09M9VC1SC


The Chair - A novella (2022) Available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGX6SMR4