Publications
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"The dragon was a problem.
Everything else up to this point had gone according to plan..."
Read my Fairy Tale Flash
'Love Conquers All' in Enchanted Conversations
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"I hear your silence transform on the other side of the wall who has a mother?" My poem 'family talk' in Strange Horizons (also available as a poetry podcast) |
- "...to live by a river or a lake of silver
- to own a boat and to float
- through pearl-strings of afternoons...."
- 'To Live by a River' in About Place
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"The monster moves in unceremoniously. It is simply there under your sofa, when yesterday it was not..." My short story 'The Monster' on Manawaker's Flash Fiction Podcast |
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"look up: here I am my love can you see me waving? no of course not all you see is a pale oval in your sky" my poem 'writer in residence' in Abyss & Apex |
"...we will not identify a lie/
when it unfurls its tendrils like poison/
ivy..."
My poem 'truth or' in
The London Reader Summer 2018 Issue
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"There is something I would like to tell you tonight. A secret of sorts. Come a bit closer. I’m going to have to whisper...." My story 'A Lesson In Saying And Not Saying' in "Changelings & Fairy Rings' from Three Drops Press |
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"...and the men here are boys with tousled hair and tea-steeped voices…" My poem 'Sehnsucht' shortlisted in the 2019 Live Canon International Poetry Competition (judged by Zaffar Kunial) Anthology available here. |
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"We came in from the dark, and on our night-time walk we had seen so many spooky black trees that ghosts seemed a real possibility..." My poem 'Tiny Choirboy', for which I won the 2018 Hammond House International Poetry Prize. Anthology available here |
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"...I was always going to be a punctual baby…" My poem 'The Clockmaker's Daughter' shortlisted in the Live Canon International Poetry Competition (judged by Liz Berry) Anthology available here. My poem 'The Clockmaker's Daughter' performed by Nichole Bird (Live Canon Ensemble) |
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"we might call you magpies for all you’ve taken from us but for everything you took you also left something behind like those birds who trade gold rings for forgotten feathers..." My poem 'give and take' first published in the spring 2019 issue of Tigershark |
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'The Haughty Gardener' first published by allitera in 'hingerissen in eurer mitte', an anthology of female poets |
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'three lessons',
a tiny poem in response to a popular book,
first published in Little Rose Magazine
in March 2018
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"It made her happy to see me eat. It made me happy to watch her cook... She never tried to teach me, and I never thought to ask. Until it was too late..." My short story "The Sad Tagine", winner of the Book a Break Short Story Competition |
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"....Ich aber kämme
meine widergespenstischen Locken
süffisant lächelnd,
wie einst die Lorelei..."
'10 Years - Words and Question Marks',
bilingual chapbook publication
with Sophia Heyland,
available from the
Oxford Poetry Library Catalogue
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I see you fall. You plunge from the desk and your white glass moon orb lampshade shatters. An inexplicable suicide... My flash fiction story Shard Luck on Reflex Fiction |
"My back is itching.
I think I’m growing wings."
'I dream of sharks again'
(an older story from 2014)
up on Isis Lit
