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Recent Work

‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Salt Pillar’, Wigleaf, forthcoming 2026

‘Splinters’, Aspier Magazine, forthcoming 2026

‘Suspiciously-cheap-house-painter Elvis is practising his snarl in our hallway mirror’, Bath Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, forthcoming 2026

The Altar of St Cindy, The Vestal Review, Issue 67, December 8, 2025

How the Esterhazys’ Christmas Party Ended Early, 50-word Stories, December 2025

What Ephesians Said, Defenestration, December 2025, originally published in Trash Cat Lit Short Fiction Anthology, What Comes to Light, edited by JP Relph, September 2025

Not even the rain has such small hands, SEXTET & Six Foot Gallery, Issue II Traces, December 4, 2025

The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter, Flash Fiction Online, FamPunk Issue, November 28, 2025

A Surfeit of Lampreys, Tiny Molecules, Issue 25, Autumn 2025

Red Olivetti, Gooseberry Pie, Issue 35, September 11, 2025

Peanut, Gooseberry Pie, Issue 35

Needles, Gooseberry Pie, Issue 35

SIMS™ Christmas, BULL, August 17 2025

Happy Little Trees, Blood+Honey, August 8, 2025

On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird, The Citron Review, June 29 2025, winner, Smokelong March Micro Madness 250-word story competition

‘On the third day of the third week of homeschool, Dad stops taking his meds and decides to blow up Bill’s shed’, The Constancy of Woodpigeons: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Nine, May 29 2025

Home Remedy, Paragraph Planet, May 4, 2025

The Meat Ration, The Cincinnati Review, April 18 2025, longlisted Smokelong Grand Micro Contest 2025, winner, Smokelong March Micro Madness 400-word story competition

Field Observations Made During an Alien Abduction, Ink Sweat, & Tears, April 30 2025

That’s always the way with the blueberries, though, Fish Barrel Review, February 28 2025

The Cormoran Causeway, Cornwall in Short, Inkfish Press, November 28 2024

A Small One Thrown Back to the Waters, Fictive Dream, November 24 2024

‘The Fox in Your Headlights’, shortlisted, The Bridport Prize 2024

[the summer Lily turns into a mermaid], shortlisted, Bournemouth Writing Prize, (De)Still Anthology, November 2 2024

A Fox Walks into a Bar, shortlisted, Frogmore Poetry Prize, The Frogmore Papers 104, September 2024

Little Tooth, shortlisted, Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, Jigsaw Pieces: An Oxford Flash Fiction Prize anthology, edited by Freya Morris, May 25 2024

when me & Georgie were supposed to be doing algebra, Strix: a magazine of poetry and short fiction, #11, April 2024

The Glass Delusion, Needle Poetry: A Journal of Experimental Poetry, Issue 1, January 2024

I write short fiction, poetry and novels. I'm the co-editor/founder of Inkfish Magazine & Press & I lecture in creative writing at the University of Hull.

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Read the latest edition of Inkfish Magazine
  • December 13, 2025 by Kate Kickstart your Writing in 2026!
  • December 8, 2025 by Kate The Vestal Review, Issue 67
  • November 28, 2025 by Kate The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter
  • September 19, 2025 by Kate North Cornwall Book Festival
  • June 29, 2025 by Kate The Citron Review
  • June 28, 2025 by Kate Holyer an Gof Awards
  • June 12, 2025 by Kate National Flash Fiction Day
  • June 3, 2025 by Kate Best Small Fictions 2025
  • April 18, 2025 by Kate The Cincinnati Review
  • October 17, 2024 by Kate Cornwall in Short
  • October 1, 2024 by Kate Perfect Victims: Six Suspense Stories
  • February 8, 2024 by Kate Comma Press: Writing Short Crime Fiction Course
  • August 1, 2023 by Kate The Glass Delusion
  • October 27, 2022 by Kate A4 Studios Maker’s Market
  • April 9, 2022 by Kate Chorlton Arts Festival
  • April 7, 2022 by Kate New Short Fiction
  • May 5, 2021 by Kate That Lockdown Novel
  • April 22, 2020 by Kate Polaroids and Poems
  • April 12, 2020 by Kate The Lure of Abandoned Places
  • April 14, 2018 by Kate Edinburgh International Science Festival
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