In print and online
Dancing in Heaven, a collection of monologues celebrating the women's voices from the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, published in December 2025 by Reconnecting Rainbows Press.
My alter ego, The Widow's Handbook, has a piece called My loss in Catherine MacKenzie's anthology Such a Loss.
Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal, Kirhall, a story about a theatre, shortlisted in the top ten for 12months 12stories.
The Widow's Handbook blog given the Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog (2022).
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).
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.
Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal, Kirhall, a story about a theatre, shortlisted in the top ten for 12months 12stories.
The Widow's Handbook blog given the Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog (2022).
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).
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).
Workshops
Writing Monologues That Speak to an Audience - a two-hour workshop on the monologue form, 6 November 2025, at the Whitby Lit Fest.
A Way with Words, a creative writing workshop inspired by Robin Hood’s Bay history and environment, with Steve Hoey, 7 June 2025.
A Way with Words, a creative writing workshop inspired by Robin Hood’s Bay history and environment, with Steve Hoey, 7 June 2025.
Performance
I am not a closet mother and Being a friend (from Dancing in Heaven) and Mr Farsyde and the drying grounds performed by the author at the open mic session, 8 November 2025, at the Whitby Lit Fest.
Making a fresh start performed by the author at Queer Spaces: Climate Pride at the York Theatre Royal (22 October 2025) and the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough (29 October 2025).
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 (all three stories feature in Dancing in Heaven).
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 and the story features in Dancing in Heaven.
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 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).
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).
Making a fresh start performed by the author at Queer Spaces: Climate Pride at the York Theatre Royal (22 October 2025) and the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough (29 October 2025).
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 (all three stories feature in Dancing in Heaven).
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 and the story features in Dancing in Heaven.
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 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).
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).