Recent News

My flash 'Sparring' made the long list in the Reflex Fiction Quarterly international flash fiction competition (Winter 2022).
I've been shortlisted, in the over 25 category, for the inaugural Laurie Lee Prize for Writing. (Stroud Book Festival)
New review on Sphinx for 'Holding On'.
My chapbook, 'How to be Silent', on the life and work of the American writer, Tillie Olsen was published by dancinggirlpress in late 2022.
​I made the short list in the Grey Hen poetry competition for women poets over 60, judged by Wendy French and Susan Utting.
My poem 'Disappearing Act' has been published in The Phare - Summer 2022
My poem 'Salvation' has been commended in the Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
My short story Solar Urticaria has won the latest Write Time Short Story Prize.
My poem Weather has just been published in Dodging the Rain. 
My new Pamphlet, 'Holding On', was published by New Walk Editions in November. ​
My poem, 'She only Wants What She Cannot Have', has just been published on the Acropolis Journal.​
My six sentence story, 'Gap Year' has just been published on the wonderful Six Sentences.
Five of my poems along with the photographs that inspired them (from the Cheltenham International Salon of Photography) have been published by Yew Tree Press in a Stroud Poets pamphlet. The other poets are Olivier Huband and Andrew Stafford. Philip Rush turned this around so quickly.
My poem 'Liaison' has just been published on Burnt Breakfast.