Reflex Fiction – volume 5

The Woman in the Pink Hoody

On a Rising Current

Published in In Defence of Pseudoscience

Spineless Wonders Travel Anthology

April 2022

Caspar’s Galleon published in the anthology

Bath Flash Fiction – Volume Six

The Fragility of Together

Published in Snow Crow 

December 2021

Reflex Fiction – Volume Four

Red Ochre Rising and Rubble of Longing published in Beguiled By a Wild Thing.

Fifty Word Stories 

Collateral Damage published November 2021

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Twice Not Shy

New Home for a Ghost and Highway Revenge are published in Twice Not Shy.

Mum Life Stories Volume One

The Landscape of Hands and When Nobody came to Stay published in Volume One.

Bath Flash Fiction – Volume Five

Firebird and The Phoenix published in Bath Flash Fiction Volume Five, Restore to Factory Settings

Grieving SeasonLiterati magazine 

As part of their Grieving Season series in February 2021, Literati Magazine republished The Grieving and Rubble of Longing.

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Emerge Literary Journal: 2020, Issue 16
Dedicated to Emerging Writers

My flash Turning One More Time is published online at Emerge Literary Journal , Jan 2021.

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Reflex Fiction

The Grieving published online at Reflex Fiction, Jan 2021

Northerly — Byron Writer’s Fest magazine

Falling In. Falling Out and After the Storm published in the Summer 2020-2021 eversion and in print.

Highway Revenge and New Home for a Ghost published in the Night Parrot Press anthology Twice Not Shy in April 2021.

A Girl’s Guide to Fly Fishing

Reflex Fiction Volume Three

A Girl’s Guide to Fly Fishing contains 158 flash fictions from 139 writers from across the world. These short short stories, each no longer than 360 words, were longlisted for the Reflex flash fiction competition held in 2019.

My flash Relationship Maths is published in this brilliant book.

50-Word Stories

My flash Metamorphosis is published online.  READ >

A 50-word story is a piece of fiction written in exactly 50 words. That doesn’t mean “roughly” 50 words; it doesn’t mean “as close to 50 words as possible”; it doesn’t mean 50 words or fewer. It means exactly 50 words. (Tim Sevenhuysen)

Ellipsis Zine, Six: 2119

‘A collection of micro-fiction – 100 words, 100 years from now – from 36 of the best contemporary flash fiction writers.’

My flash piece A Good Result is published in Ellipsis Six.

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Flash Flood  – National Flash Fiction Day UK

Flash Flood is National Flash Fiction Day‘s curated online flash fiction journal, open for submissions for one week a year.  During that week, over 1,000 stories are received and favourites selected for publication on National Flash Fiction Day.

My flash piece Freefalling was published in Flash Flood 2020.

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Some comments received:

This is stunning. I’ll read this over and over.
Jenny Kennedy, Twitter.

Fantastic Flash. Full of sight, sound, taste, touch. Wonderful imagery and use of language.
Matt Kendrick. Writer. Twitter.

100 Words of Solitude

A project set up to capture and record human responses to enforced lockdown or self-imposed isolation as Covid-19 (Coronavirus) sweeps across the world.

My 100-word flash piece In the Slipstream is one of 100 global stories.

IN PRINT: 100 Words of Solitude is now a print collection inspired by the original initial project, published by Rare Swan Press. All proceeds to humanitarian causes.

The Practice of Solitude

Twenty-five words on isolation in Covid times fused with twenty-five words from three other authors to make one story.

The Real Jazz Baby

The Real Jazz Baby features 162 stories from the best flash fiction writers in the world.

Winner best flash fiction anthology 2020 Saboteur Awards.

Two of my flash pieces are included:

Her Symphony  READ >
Freefalling  READ >