Hello and welcome to my Substack! Come on in 😊 I’ve been writing short fiction for over ten years, and am now working on my first novel. I started work…

July 2022

Reflections

April 2019

Delighted to receive my contributor's copy of Best Microfiction 2019 today - just in time for Easter break. There are 87 short stories by different…

June 2018

I'm excited that my new flash fiction, Plum Skin, has made it into the 2018 National Flash Fiction Day anthology, RIPENING. Thanks to the organisers…

May 2018

I'm up at Flashback Fiction today with a historical microfiction, There Will Be No Lace.In case you haven't been there yet, Flashback Fiction is a…

April 2018

I'm delighted that my story, The Whale, has been accepted by Necessary Fiction. Thanks to Lacey N Dunham for reading and editing. THE WHALE The people…

February 2017

The postman was kind today -- the 2016 Bath Flash Fiction Award anthology is out and I'm really chuffed to have a short fiction called OCCASIONALLY in…

February 2016

I'm delighted to have a story up at Blue Five Notebook as part of their Broadside series, in which story and author commentary are published together…
New flash fiction! Happy Monday, everyone! This is a little 200-word shorty that I wrote in 2014 as an offshoot to a series of stories about Mary (the…

June 2015

I'm delighted to have a story in this year's National Flash Fiction Day anthology, LANDMARKS. It's great to be in the company of these writers: Ingrid…

January 2015

I have a story up at Ink Sweat and Tears — MAYBE A FOX. When she unplugged the telly, she didn’t think to examine the sliver of darkness between her…

June 2014

ISBN 978-1500110871 Available to buy on Amazon I'm excited -- my flash fiction VINEGAR has been included in this year's National Flash Fiction Day…