stories in print
Rory's Fishing Tackle Shop
Shortlisted in Bath Flash Fiction Award February 2024 and will be included in BFFA Anthology Volume Nine.
The Last Fall
Included in Best Small Fictions anthology 2023. Originally published online at Flash Frontier.
Lilac Trees and a Little Black Cat
Longlisted in Reflex Fiction's quarterly competition, Autumn 2022. To be published in their final competition print anthology in 2023.
You Can
Published in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Volume 11:2, 10th Anniversary Issue available to buy or read as pdf.
Tupperware Genie
Shortlisted in Bath Flash Fiction Award June 2018, judged by David Gaffney, and included in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Three, Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road. Mentioned in Sabotage Review's review of the anthology.
In and Out of Consciousness
Selected for Ekphrastic Review's inaugural print anthology, The Memory Palace, Spring 2024
Three Ways to Lose a Friend
Slipping
Both published in Vol 6 of the Bath Flash Fiction Festival Anthology. 'Three Ways..' won the Triptych Challenge from their January 2023 Online Festival Day.
Crab Skeletons
Shortlisted in Bath Flash Fiction Award October 2020, judged by Nod Ghosh, and included in Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume Five Restore to Factory Settings.
Mrs Dawson
Finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2019, print anthology available to buy here. First published in Spring 2017 by Earlyworks Press in their Short Story Competition print anthology, Apples, Shadows and Light, which is available to buy on their website and also at Amazon UK.
Hair Line
Longlisted in Reflex Fiction's quarterly competition, Spring 2018 and published in their print anthology 2019, The Real Jazz Baby - read Hair Line here.
A Party
Longlisted in Bath Flash Fiction Award June 2016 and included in Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Volume One, To Carry Her Home, out now. My husband, Mike Grierson, also features!
Dead Goose, White Pony
Longlisted in Bath Flash Fiction Award June 2023 and included in BFFA Anthology Volume Eight.
Some Things My Mother Said on My First Day at Another New School. And Some Others I Wish She Had.
Longlisted in Reflex Fiction's quarterly competition, Winter 2022. To be published in their final competition print anthology in 2023.
Summer with Lilah
Published in Ellipsis Zine #7, She Cries Honey, April 2020, available to buy as a print edition or digital download.
Oh Baby
Published in Bath Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Two, available to buy on the Ad Hoc Fiction website bookshop.
Tonic Baby
Dumb-ass
Treading Water
All longlisted in Bath Flash Fiction Award (Feb, June and Oct 2017) and included in 'The Lobsters Run Free' Bath Flash Fiction Volume Two, available here.