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Delighted that ‘The Siren Squad Tries a New Flyer’ was Highly Commended in this June’s Bath Flash Fiction Award — a story about American cheerleaders, electric eels and the cruelty teenage girls can dress up as loyalty, which was such fun (and slightly chilling) to write. It’ll be appearing in a Bath Flash Fiction Anthology,…
Lovely news to end the month with — ‘On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird’, first published last summer in The Citron Review, has been longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2026! It’s always surprising and wonderful when a piece keeps finding new life a year after it first came out…
So thrilled to have moderated this year’s “Best Small Fictions around the world” panel for the 2026 Festival of Flash, National Flash Fiction Day NZ’s annual online celebration. Lovely author and editor Michelle Elvy invited me back after working on Best Small Fictions 2025 – and currently Best Small Fictions 2026 – together. It was…
Made my whole week to learn that ‘How the Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518 Begins’ took First Place in this year’s Micro Madness, National Flash Fiction Day NZ’s daily micro-fiction celebration! Huge thanks to wonderful judges Tim Saunders and Tania Hershman for picking a piece about medieval barmaids, forbidden kisses and a genuinely real historical…
Beyond thrilled to see my story, “The Altar of Saint Cindy,” republished in the brand new Issue Ninety-Two of SmokeLong Quarterly, as the first-place winner of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize! Thanks so much to Vestal Review, where it first appeared, and to SmokeLong for choosing it for the prize and giving it this beautiful new…
I love Wigleaf magazine and I was really happy to see my flash fiction piece, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Salt Pillar, published in this amazing magazine of short fiction. Here’s a little excerpt: One day, you and the angel lie in bed together while your husband is at work, lazily filling out one of…
So excited that my flash piece ‘Ten Things they Never Told you About Possum’ was shortlisted for the amazing Bath Flash Fiction Award in February 2026 and will be coming out in a Bath Flash Fiction Anthology soon! You can read the full list here.
So thrilled that my Vestal Review story, “The Altar of Saint Cindy”, won first prize in Smokelong Quarterly’s annual contest for published work begun in an SLQ workshop! You can see the full list of all the amazing finalists and winners here. Love Smokelong Quarterly so much and their workshops are the best thing that…
Kickstart Your Writing in 2026 – Beginning Saturday, January 10th! New year, new goals—why not make writing one of them? Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started, sometimes we all need a little push to get back into the groove. If you’re looking for that extra boost to get your creative ideas flowing and your…
I’m so thrilled to see my flash piece The Altar of St Cindy in brilliant company in this beautiful new issue of The Vestal Review. Thanks so much to David Galef, to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began, and to my lovely writing group as always!