It’s always a little bit special when the local press feature your achievements. Thank you, Becky Hotchin and the ‘Western Telegraph’ for this lovely piece about my Cinnamon win.Here’s the link…

And here it is. My poem, ‘Blodeuwedd Crosses the Road’, in Arachne Press’s A470 anthology.I still can’t quite believe that I have a poem in print, and that it’s alongside a…

If one word could sum up my writing experience in 2021 it would be ‘almost’… but not quite – although, to be more accurate, all this was in the latter…

Solstice Shorts 2021 - Words from the Brink Last night, Arachne Press held its annual Solstice Shorts Festival online, to celebrate the winter solstice and its latest anthology ‘Words from…

I am so proud  (and shocked) to be the winner of the 2021 Cinnamon Press Literature Award, for my novella, ‘The Sisters of Cynvael’. The prize has been awarded jointly…

I have been subscribing to Mslexia for years (almost from their beginnings), and always enter their short story competition, which is regarded among the best – though it is for…

Today – November 26th – is Black Friday, which is when we are all supposed to spend, spend, spend. This is the beginning of my story ‘Risk Factor’, which uses the…

A nice start to November, to hear that I had been long listed for the Grindstone Short Story Prize. The prize has a global reach, and its brief is ‘for…

I am very pleased to have received an acceptance for a short story from ‘Dream Catcher’ literary magazine. My story, ‘Girl before a Mirror, I, II and III’ will appear…

The Bridport Prize has always been held in high regard by short story writers. It has been around for a long time, now, and although, more recently, there are bigger…