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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…
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…
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.
I’m really excited to see my micro piece On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird published in the summer edition of The Citron Review. Thanks so much to lovely editor JR Walsh, and to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then ended up winning the ‘up to 250-word…
Over at Inkfish Magazine and Press, we were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall in Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our amazing authors! The Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th: https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/shortlist-2025/
I was over the moon that The Cincinnati Review published my micro piece The Meat Ration! Thanks so much to editor Kate Jayroe, and especially to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then somehow won the up to 400-word story competition at the end of the wonderfully fun…
I was so thrilled when my publisher at Barbican Press, Martin Goodman, called to tell me I’d been shortlisted for the Scottish First Book of the Year (Saltire) Award. I travelled to Hoy and wrote The Monster’s Wife out of my fascination with Shelley’s novel, with Orkney as place and because of my sense of the developing…
I had a lot of fun going in the little Tardis space-booth at Manchester’s Media City and doing this radio interview with Good Morning Scotland about The Monster’s Wife and the Scottish first book of the year award. My bit starts at 2:42 or so. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lssz2