I relish writing and editing short stories and flash fiction, and have a self-imposed rule of submitting every month. If you write, I highly recommend this trick. It ensures that for every rejection, there are still a handful of tales out in the world that may yet be published, plus a gentle flurry of successes to bolster your writing mojo.
Here are some of my recent and upcoming publications.
Upcoming
Vinegar Tits – National Flash Fiction Day #FlashFlood
A Haircut is a Poem – dif literary zine
Waterslides and Other Snakes – Decadent Serpent
June 2025
‘Low Tide at Poets’ Walk’ opens the poetry anthology Poets’ Walk, edited by Martin Rieser & Ralph Hoyte, and is part of a poetry app you can listen to while walking Clevedon’s Poets’ Walk.
‘Gen A Will Disapprove of the Choices We Made‘ appeared on National Flash Fiction Day NZ’s Micro Madness shortlist and was published on their website along with a recording.
May 2025
My story ‘Blue-Naped Parrots See More Than They Say’ has been selected for publication in the Best Small Fictions anthology.
This tale originally appeared in New Flash Fiction Review Issue 32.
April 2025
An Absence of Towering Leaves, an excerpt from my hybrid work-in-progress about loss and solace – ‘To Lay Sun Into a Forest’, an anthology from Sidhe Press.
February 2025
December 2024
To trust the hungry sea – Flash Frontier, CIRCLE | POROWHITA issue. This story was nominated for a Best Microfiction award.
Dad has received his festive trim – Paragraph Planet
Fledgling – Neither Fish Nor Foul
Dusk at the Marine Lake – Writers’ Journal Vol. 1: Live & Learn
November 2024
A 1,500 word excerpt of my hybrid memoir ‘The Tree Inside’ was shortlisted and highly commended for the Laurie Lee Prize.
October 2024
Tall Girl and Lazlo the Terrible – Frazzled Lit. This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
August 2024
Giraffe Families – Epoque Press
July 2024
All the Lives we Almost Live – Trash Cat Lit
June 2024
Moon Jellies – National Flash Fiction Day Write In
Reasons to Rescue Strangers – National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2024
Why We Dance on the Pier – Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
May 2024
February 2024
Blue-naped Parrots See More Than They Say – New Flash Fiction Review Issue 32 Family Life
January 2024
A Bright Day – winner of the New Writers UK Winter Story competition
October 2023
Mycorrhiza – Flash Frontier GARDEN / MĀRA issue
A Still, Golden Light – The Simple Things Magazine issue 136
What Was Lost & How Insects Signal Their Love – Flash Boulevard
June 2023
Windowledge Archives – National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood UK 2023
The Long Way Home – National Flash Fiction Day NZ Micro Madness
April 2023
This is Not a Story About Chickens – The Hooghly Review issue 1
February 2023
How Many is 80? Paragraph Planet (scroll to Feb 23rd)
January 2023
Life Hacks – 12 Fragile Things Not to Use as a Doorstop – Wensum Literary Magazine issue 1/Winter 2023
December 2022
Natural Miracles – Flash Frontier Wonder issue
October 2022
The Art of Pivot and Flit – Dually Noted, Brink Literacy Project
September 2022
The Bee Man’s Secret – Flash Fiction Festival Volume Five
August 2022
The Green-Gold of Wet Kelp – Fairlight Books
June 2022
The egret and I don’t belong here – The Phare Literary Magazine Summer 2022 issue
Tricks to uproot a guest who has outstayed their welcome – Tiny Molecules issue 13
After Dad Goes into Care – National Flash Fiction Day FlashFlood 2022
Bees Breathe Without Lungs – Honeyguide Magazine
How to Hook a Heart – And We Live Happily Ever After, National Flash Fiction Day anthology 2022
The Tempest Inside – Micro Madness
April 2022
March 2022
Awkward Liaisons – Flash Fiction Festival Volume Four
Falling in a Forest Mslexia magazine issue 93
Fishing for Green and Blue – Retreat West 10th Birthday Anthology
December 2021
Reasons Your Kefir Might Sour – Litro Magazine Flash Friday
The Only Language He knows Now is Touch – Blink-Ink, Moonlight #46
The Finch in My Sister’s Hair – The Birdseed
The Sea Lives in Her Mum’s Head – Ellipsis Zine
November 2021
The Salt Sting of Learning When To Say No – Flash Frontier
September 2021
My Choice – Six Sentence Stories
Three Shades of Summer – Flash Fiction Magazine
Storm Beckoner – Bandit Fiction
June 2021
Leaf After Leaf – National Flash Fiction Day Write-In
The Hare I Miss – Thimble Literary Magazine
What’s That? – Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis
May 2021
Reaching (collaborate work – I wrote the first stanza) – 100 Words of Solitude
April 2021
The Sideways House – Twin Pies Volume IV
March 2021