Publications

News on my novels can be found over at my Amazon Author Page

PUBLISHED 2022

My short story ‘Teardrops’ was a runner-up in the Bloody Scotland Glencairn Glass short story competition.

PUBLISHED 2021

My short story, ‘In The Northern Lowlands of Mars’ is available over at The Short Story

My short story, ‘Your Mother Before She Became’ is available in The Marathon Literary Review

Mt short story Fractured Composition was published in the anthology ‘Best of Hot Metal Bridge 2007 -2020’

My third novel The Vanishing Child was published in August 2021.

PUBLISHED 2020

My novel ‘Someone Else’s Daughter’ was published in July 2020

My novel ‘All The Lies We Told’ was published in October 2020

My flash fiction, ‘The Diver’ is available over at Reflex Fiction

My short story, ‘As Eternal As The Grief Of Fallen Angels’ is available  in the anthology ‘The Middle of a Sentence’ by The Common Breath on December 1st 2020

My short story, ‘Something Red, and Small, and Crumpled’  is available in New Writing Scotland No. 38 in Autumn 2020

My short story, ‘Fractured Composition’ is available in the Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology

My short story, ‘One Bright Blue Day in Amsterdam’ has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association 2020 Margery Allingham short  mystery competition

I am a regular contributor to Visual Verse and my story ‘Crabs’ was one of the lead stories in the 2015 April edition. A full list of my Visual Verse stories can be found here.

PUBLISHED 2019

Shortlisted in the short story category for the Bridport Prize

My short story ‘Something Red and Small and Crumpled’ was longlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award 

My flash fiction, ‘Lick’, is the winner of the Faber Academy QuickFic competiton

My flash fiction, ‘Fade Away’ is published over at the Faber Academy

My flash fiction, ‘Koala’ is available at Dime Show Review

My short story, ‘Simply Something Else’ is available in Issue 01 of Funicular Magazine [print only]

My short story, ‘Fractured Composition’ is available in Issue 25 of  Hot Metal Bridge

My short story, ‘Ripple Effect’ is available in the Spring 2019 edition of Jenny Magazine

PUBLISHED 2018

My flash fiction, ‘Ten Pound Pom’, is available in Issue 12 of The Nottingham Review (print only)

My short story, ‘Goðafoss’ is available over at The Coachella Review

My flash fiction, ‘This Fantastic, Incomparable, Instagrammable Life’ was runner-up in the Faber Academy QuickFic and is available over at the Faber Academy

My flash fiction ‘Sometimes The Sea’ is available in Issue Twelve of The Cabinet of Heed

My flash fiction, ‘Thirteen’ is available in the 2018 National Flash Fiction Day anthology.

My short story, ‘Jump’ won 3rd prize in the Sunderland Short Story Award and is available in the winners anthology

My flash fiction, ‘Things I Keep, Things I Discard’ (shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2017) is available at Spelk Fiction

My flash fiction story, ‘A Hotel Room in Amsterdam’,  is available over at  Fictive Dream

The revised manuscript of my novel, ‘That Summer’, (previously titled ‘Complicity’) was longlisted for the 2017 Exeter Novel Prize.

My flash fiction, ‘Melanzane al Forno’ (previously shortlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award in 2016 under the title, ‘Aubergine’) is available at Jellyfish Review

My flash fiction, ‘Marks Like Whispers’ (a previous version of which was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2014) is available over at The Sunlight Press

My flash fiction, ‘Back when you were River Phoenix’ is available over at Cheap Pop and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019

My flash fiction, ‘Feathered’ is available over at Five:2:One Magazine and includes an audio recording of me reading my story.

My flash fiction, ‘A Blue So Bright it Hurt Your Heart’, is available over at New Flash Fiction as part of their seven banned words feature.

PUBLISHED 2017

My novel, ‘Complicity’ was longlisted for the 2017 Bath Novel Award.

My shortlisted short story, ‘ESO 378 Nebula’, is available in the 2017  Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology

Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in the Flash Fiction Category

My flash fiction, ‘The Deer’ Highly Commended in the Bare Fiction Prize  is available at at Bare Fiction

My flash fiction, ‘Somnambulists’, is available via the short story dispenser at Edmonton International Airport

My short story, ‘Saguaro Night’ is available over at The Short Story 

My flash fiction, ‘Kodokushi’, is available in Everyday Fiction

My micro-fiction is available in the Storytelling edition of The Creative Review

My flash fiction, ‘Like Fireflies Over Lake Erie’, is available in Issue 7 of (b)OINK

My flash fiction, ‘1 + 1 = 3’ is available over at Ellipsis Zine and in the print anthology ‘One’ and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018

My Flash Fiction, ‘I Wonder If You Remember’, is available over at the 2017 Flash Flood Journal as part of the celebrations for National Flash Fiction Day

My short story, ‘Catch it, hold on to it, never let it go’, is available in Issue 8 of The Nottingham Review in July 2017

My  flash fiction , ‘Coconut Fever’ is available at Ink, Sweat and Tears

My short story, ‘And White Horses Danced On The Shore’ is available at The Lonely Crowd

My micro-fiction, ‘Mango’ was Highly Commended in the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day Competition and is available in the 2017 NFFD Anthology, ‘Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour’.

My short story, ‘Red For Stop, Green For Go’,  is published in  Volume 32 Issue 1 of Folio Magazine [print only]

My flash fiction, ‘The Queen Of The Netherlands’, is available at at  Foliate Oak Literary Magazine

My essay, ‘Our Epic Journey From Nothing To Nowhere’ on the short story collection, ‘The Foxes Come At Night’, by Cees Nooteboom, is published in Thresholds Journal

PUBLISHED 2016

2016: Longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award with my Young Adult novel, ‘Tell Me, Cody, Where’d You Go?’

2016: BBC World Service International Playwriting Competition Commended for my play “Digging”

2016: Shortlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award

2016: Longlisted for the Bath Short Story Award

2016: Faber Academy Quick Fic Runner-Up with my very short story ‘Swans’

2016: My flash fiction ‘424 Likes’ is included in the 2016 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology ‘A Box Of Stars Beneath The Bed’

2016: My flash fiction ‘Sunshine and Pigeons’ was publshed in the Flash Flood Journal on June 25th 2016

2016: Shortlisted for the A3 Review micro-fiction competion with my micro fiction Tell Me About It

2016: Shortlisted for the A3 Review micro-fiction competition with my micro fictionAubergine

PUBLISHED 2015

2015: Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize  Short Story Category

2015: Short story “Struck” in Writers Abroad 2015 Anthology “Kaleidoscope”

2015: Short story “Hush Said The Grass” in Crack The Spine

2015: Walking Inside Ourselves’ an essay on Janet Frame in Thresholds

2015: My review of ‘Dinosaurs On Other Planets’ by Danielle McLaughlin in The Irish Times

2015: Longlisted for Flash 500 quarterly competition

2014

2014: Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize Flash Fiction Category

2014: My story “The Gymnast” a notable story in the Story South Million Writers Award .

2014: Litro Magazine My Biggest Secret story competition winner with my short story “Mother Love”

2014: National Flash Fiction Day 2014  flash fiction “Where Memories Live” in 2014 Anthology “Eating My Words”

2014: National Flash Fiction Day (UK) Highly Commended for my flash fiction “Peppermint” included in NFFD 2014 Anthology “Eating My Words”

2014: Litro Magazine Environmental Disaster short story prize for my story “Tulips”

2014: Longlisted for Flash 500 quarterly competition

2013

2013: Editor’s Choice Prize Raymond Carver Short Story Competition Carve Literary Magazine for my short story “The Gymnast”

2013: Stories For Homes Anthology edited by Debi Alper and Sally Swingewood.
“Ten Stories High”

2013: National Flash Fiction Day Calum Kerr’s Flash Flood Selection
“Worse Things Happen At Sea”

2013: Accelerate Education
Three stories used in Language Arts 10 module

The Gymnast
Dog Collar
Julia’s Garden

2009

2009: BBC World Service International Radio Playwriting Competition
Commended for my radio play “How To Carve Small Figurines”

2004

2004: The Guardian Poetry Workshop With Ruth Fainlight
For my poem “It’s Only When He Turns The Pages, Touches The Paper, That His Eyes Light Up”

2001
2001: BBC World Service International Radio Playwriting Competition
Regional Winner for Europe for my radio play “The Circus”.

JOURNALISM & ESSAYS

I also write  regular columns for Mash Stories and my columns for Litro can be found over at Litro Magazine

Interview with Kerrin Piché Serna 3rd place winner in 2014 Raymond Carver Contest for Carve Magazine – print only.

WRITING RELATED PROJECTS & COURSES FOLLOWED

On May 14th 2016 I gave a talk on flash fiction at the American Book Center in The Hague

I am a Resident Reader for Carve Literary Magazine

From November 2013 to October 2016 I was a Senior Advisor and Editor for Mash Stories

From November 2014 to April 2015 I was the Flash Fiction Editor for Litro Magazine

In June 2014 I was an editor for The Write In event as part of National Flash Fiction Day (UK)

Guest judge for the 2014 Carve Magazine Esoteric Prize

In March 2016 I completed the Advanced Creative Writing Course with Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. Tutored by Elizabeth Garner.

In June 2016  I completed  the ‘Starting to Write Your Novel’ course with Curtis Brown Creative

October 2016 I completed  the Fast Flash Workshop taught by Kathy Fish

INTERVIEWS WITH ME

I spoke to F.C. Malby about my writing process and editing work over at her blog

I discuss writing in an interview with Marie Gethins over at The Short Story

I spoke to Matthew Limpede, Executive Editor of Carve Magazine about my writing process and my short story The Gymnast in the Fall 2013 edition of Carve Magazine (print only)