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…
Micro Fiction
The Citron Review
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…
The Cincinnati Review
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…


