Publications and performances
It's okay, take your time, Dancing in Heaven, and A mother's story performed at the Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival, 16-17 November 2024.
My alter ego, The Widow's Handbook, has a piece called My loss in Catherine MacKenzie's anthology Such a Loss
It's okay, take your time, a monologue about a woman volunteering on London Gay Switchboard in the 1980s, performed by the author as part of Queer Spaces Live at the Steven Joseph Theatre, Scarborough (February 2024) - the video is here
Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal, Kirhall, a story about a theatre, shortlisted in the top ten for 12months 12stories
Do Not Enter, Let Me Go and Love Everlasting selected in the top 30 monologues for the Lancaster One Minute Monologues competition 2023, and performed by Alexandra Logan at Lancaster Library (November 2023)
Dancing in Heaven, performed by the author at Hear My Voice: a night of new writing from LGBTQ+ writers at the Museum of Making, Derby Silk Mill (June 2022)
The Widow's Handbook blog given the Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog (2022)
The Night Witch, a monologue about Russian women pilots in World War Two, selected for performance as part of The Queen of Cups' New Moon Monologues at The Space in London (November 2021)
Dancing in Heaven, a monologue about a young nurse working in the AIDS epidemic, in the Writing East Midlands anthology Notes on Alone (September 2021)
A Queerativity Tale Chapter 7, a chapter in a multi-author horror story (August 2021)
Loud Voices, Silent Streets 28-day monologue challenge - 28 nine-line monologues (February 2021)
Memories always start around midnight, a short story about a meeting in a jazz club, in the short story anthology Round Midnight: Eyelands 9 (Strange Days Books, October 2019)
One Perfect Rose, flash fiction about a special moment in a park, shortlisted for Zen Garden (July 2019)
The Hourglass, The Wasp and Charity Shop performed in Park Your Thoughts, directed by Ceri Royles and played by members of Tideswell Community Players (July 2017)
My Mum, a poem in Gaby Morgan's children's poetry anthology I Love My Mum (Macmillan Children's Books, January 2015)
Peak Voices (Writers in the Peak, October 2013)
The Door, a ghost story, in the short story anthology Read by Dawn volume 2 (Bloody Books, September 2007), described as a 'superb example of psychological horror'
Inventory, a poem about loss in the magazine ThirdWay (April 2007)
Widows, a story of revenge and murder, in the short story anthology Bitch Lit (Crocus Books, September 2006) - with a blog from fellow author Elizabeth Baines
Triple Layer Chocolate Pie, a short story in the magazine Bella (2006)
Black Cat, a poem in Paul Cookson's children's poetry anthology The Works 5: Every Kind of Poem, from an Alphabet of Poets, That You Will Ever Need for the Literacy Hour (Macmillan Children's Books, January 2006)
A poem in Paul Cookson's children's poetry anthology What Shape is a Poem (Macmillan Children's Books, September 2002)
My alter ego, The Widow's Handbook, has a piece called My loss in Catherine MacKenzie's anthology Such a Loss
It's okay, take your time, a monologue about a woman volunteering on London Gay Switchboard in the 1980s, performed by the author as part of Queer Spaces Live at the Steven Joseph Theatre, Scarborough (February 2024) - the video is here
Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal, Kirhall, a story about a theatre, shortlisted in the top ten for 12months 12stories
Do Not Enter, Let Me Go and Love Everlasting selected in the top 30 monologues for the Lancaster One Minute Monologues competition 2023, and performed by Alexandra Logan at Lancaster Library (November 2023)
Dancing in Heaven, performed by the author at Hear My Voice: a night of new writing from LGBTQ+ writers at the Museum of Making, Derby Silk Mill (June 2022)
The Widow's Handbook blog given the Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog (2022)
The Night Witch, a monologue about Russian women pilots in World War Two, selected for performance as part of The Queen of Cups' New Moon Monologues at The Space in London (November 2021)
Dancing in Heaven, a monologue about a young nurse working in the AIDS epidemic, in the Writing East Midlands anthology Notes on Alone (September 2021)
A Queerativity Tale Chapter 7, a chapter in a multi-author horror story (August 2021)
Loud Voices, Silent Streets 28-day monologue challenge - 28 nine-line monologues (February 2021)
Memories always start around midnight, a short story about a meeting in a jazz club, in the short story anthology Round Midnight: Eyelands 9 (Strange Days Books, October 2019)
One Perfect Rose, flash fiction about a special moment in a park, shortlisted for Zen Garden (July 2019)
The Hourglass, The Wasp and Charity Shop performed in Park Your Thoughts, directed by Ceri Royles and played by members of Tideswell Community Players (July 2017)
My Mum, a poem in Gaby Morgan's children's poetry anthology I Love My Mum (Macmillan Children's Books, January 2015)
Peak Voices (Writers in the Peak, October 2013)
The Door, a ghost story, in the short story anthology Read by Dawn volume 2 (Bloody Books, September 2007), described as a 'superb example of psychological horror'
Inventory, a poem about loss in the magazine ThirdWay (April 2007)
Widows, a story of revenge and murder, in the short story anthology Bitch Lit (Crocus Books, September 2006) - with a blog from fellow author Elizabeth Baines
Triple Layer Chocolate Pie, a short story in the magazine Bella (2006)
Black Cat, a poem in Paul Cookson's children's poetry anthology The Works 5: Every Kind of Poem, from an Alphabet of Poets, That You Will Ever Need for the Literacy Hour (Macmillan Children's Books, January 2006)
A poem in Paul Cookson's children's poetry anthology What Shape is a Poem (Macmillan Children's Books, September 2002)