Creative writing

Coming soon!

I'm a learner at heart and have taken numerous writing courses, including the Faber Academy's Writing a Novel and the Six Month Novel by Urban Writer's Retreat.

During the former I wrote a science fiction novel, Three Orders of Magnitude, which is currently biding its time in a drawer. In the latter I wrote a mystery novel, The Spoils, which I'm currently editing with my agent. A version of The Spoils (under the title The Inheritance Game) was longlisted for the TLC Pen Factor competition and the Grindstone Novel Prize in 2021.

In the meantime, check out a few of my flash stories for Paragraph Planet (daily 75-word stories), my Primadonna Festival Flash Fiction Prize winning story, and my spin on The Moth (true storytelling nights and podcast).

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Jeannie takes the cake. There are paper plates, napkins, and a large knife waiting. Her co-workers gather around and hand her a card and a gift bag with a company mug and a £20 M&S voucher in it. Brian gives her the eye and she knows he's hoping she'll get drunk in the pub later. But she isn't going. She hates these people. Jeannie takes the cake, boxes it up, and eats it at home.

THE FALL. My vision is a haze of people fidgeting and mumbling.

Lilith. It was a stupid reason to lose a husband. Since him they had all been snakes, demons, ones I only encountered in the middle of the night. Spilled their seed so often one accused me of making him impotent. I was happy for his wife's sake that she couldn't get pregnant. At least with him I could be on top. My old husband what not approve; what a stupid reason to lose a wife.

​Coming soon!

Coming soon!