Awards
1st Place – Globe Soup Short Story 2021
1st Place – Globe Soup 24-hr Flash Fiction 2021
Top-Ten Finalist – Globe Soup 48-hr Genre Smash Flash 2024
Finalist – Globe Soup Genre Smash Short Story 2023
Longlist – Fish Short Story Prize 2023
Finalist – Globe Soup Micro, Sept 2023
Finalist – Globe Soup Short Story 2022
Finalist – Globe Soup Micro, July 2022; Tiny Anthology 2023 (BU)
Longlist – Fish Poetry Prize 2022 & Top-100 Longlist, Mslexia 2021 Poetry Competition
Finalist – Globe Soup Flash Fiction 2021 & Longlisted Flash500 2022-Q1 Short Story
Double-shortlist – Staunch International Book Prize 2021
+ reasons to celebrate
- spring/summer 2024 : joined Hedgehog Press Little Black Book series; published in RAW LIT issue 4; Finalist in Globe Soup’s Genre Smash Short Story + 48-hr Flash competitions; reviewed Findlater/Cary’s ‘Stone Trees’ (Atomic Bohemian Press)
- autumn/winter 2023 : debut poetry pamphlet forthcoming with Hedgehog Press (eek!); highly commended in Hedgehog’s over 30s ‘I’m Feelin’ Good’ & ‘White Label – Douze’ pamphlet competitions; double-longlisted in New Writers Poetry competition
- spring/summer 2023 : ‘The cost of living’ chosen by Linda France for Mslexia publication as part of ‘Poems for the Planet’ series (theme: air); ‘Mae Genod Jest Eisia Cael Hwyl’ published in Ffosfforws 4, by Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp (issue edited by Carwyn Eckley); work in two international anthologies: The Poetry Marathon 2022, and Tiny Anthology, Bangor University MA Creative Writing cohort
- autumn/winter 2022 : awarded Masters in Creative Writing (Distinction) from Bangor University; three poem sequence published in Seattle-based journal Firmament; honourable mention, Globe Soup 7-Day Challenge #7; joined Nation.Cymru Wales-wide interactive cultural map
- spring/summer 2022 : Top-100 longlist for Mslexia Single Poem Competition judged by Pascale Petit; novel opening longlisted for the Gwobr Cyntaf Crime Cymru First Novel Award; Cranked Anvil Flash Fiction longlist; Globe Soup Flash Fiction and 7-day Challenge #3 Finalist; co-edited publication, ‘SONDER, An Anthology’
- autumn/winter 2021 : double-shortlisted for the Staunch International Book Prize, flash fiction and short story categories (made local news!); ‘the national trust‘ poem published as part of Poetry at Penrhyn Masterclass
- spring/summer 2021 : won the Globe Soup Open Short Story and 24-hr Flash fiction comps – thanks Globe Soup judges, an amazing boost to my writing; joined Cranked Anvil Short Story July longlist
And the story continues…