News on my novels can be found over at my Amazon Author Page

PUBLISHED 2022

• My short story ‘Teardrops’ was a runner-up in the Bloody Scotland Glencairn Glass short story competition.

PUBLISHED 2021

• My short story, ‘In The Northern Lowlands of Mars’ is available over at The Short Story
• My short story, ‘Your Mother Before She Became’ is available in The Marathon Literary Review
• My short story Fractured Composition was published in the anthology ‘Best of Hot Metal Bridge 2007 -2020’
• My third novel The Vanishing Child was published in August 2021.

PUBLISHED 2020

• My novel ‘Someone Else’s Daughter’ was published in July 2020
• My novel ‘All The Lies We Told’ was published in October 2020
• My flash fiction, ‘The Diver’ is available over at Reflex Fiction
• My short story, ‘As Eternal As The Grief Of Fallen Angels’ is available  in the anthology ‘The Middle of a Sentence’ by The Common Breath on December 1st 2020
• My short story, ‘Something Red, and Small, and Crumpled’  is available in New Writing Scotland No. 38 in Autumn 2020
• My short story, ‘Fractured Composition’ is available in the Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology
• My short story, ‘One Bright Blue Day in Amsterdam’ has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association 2020 Margery Allingham short  mystery competition
• I am a regular contributor to Visual Verse and my story ‘Crabs’ was one of the lead stories in the 2015 April edition. A full list of my Visual Verse stories can be found here.

PUBLISHED 2019

• Shortlisted in the short story category for the Bridport Prize
• My short story ‘Something Red and Small and Crumpled’ was longlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award 
• My flash fiction, ‘Lick’, is the winner of the Faber Academy QuickFic competiton
• My flash fiction, ‘Fade Away’ is published over at the Faber Academy
• My flash fiction, ‘Koala’ is available at Dime Show Review
• My short story, ‘Simply Something Else’ is available in Issue 01 of Funicular Magazine [print only]
• My short story, ‘Fractured Composition’ is available in Issue 25 of  Hot Metal Bridge
• My short story, ‘Ripple Effect’ is available in the Spring 2019 edition of Jenny Magazine

PUBLISHED 2018

• My flash fiction, ‘Ten Pound Pom’, is available in Issue 12 of The Nottingham Review (print only)
• My short story, ‘Goðafoss’ is available over at The Coachella Review
• My flash fiction, ‘This Fantastic, Incomparable, Instagrammable Life’ was runner-up in the Faber Academy QuickFic and is available over at the Faber Academy
• My flash fiction ‘Sometimes The Sea’ is available in Issue Twelve of The Cabinet of Heed
• My flash fiction, ‘Thirteen’ is available in the 2018 National Flash Fiction Day anthology.
• My short story, ‘Jump’ won 3rd prize in the Sunderland Short Story Award and is available in the winners anthology
  
• My flash fiction, ‘Things I Keep, Things I Discard’ (shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2017) is available at Spelk Fiction
• My flash fiction story, ‘A Hotel Room in Amsterdam’,  is available over at  Fictive Dream
• The revised manuscript of my novel, ‘That Summer’, (previously titled ‘Complicity’) was longlisted for the 2017 Exeter Novel Prize.
• My flash fiction, ‘Melanzane al Forno’ (previously shortlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award in 2016 under the title, ‘Aubergine’) is available at Jellyfish Review
• My flash fiction, ‘Marks Like Whispers’ (a previous version of which was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2014) is available over at The Sunlight Press
• My flash fiction, ‘Back when you were River Phoenix’ is available over at Cheap Pop and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019
• My flash fiction, ‘Feathered’ is available over at Five:2:One Magazine and includes an audio recording of me reading my story.
• My flash fiction, ‘A Blue So Bright it Hurt Your Heart’, is available over at New Flash Fiction as part of their seven banned words feature.

PUBLISHED 2017

• My novel, ‘Complicity’ was longlisted for the 2017 Bath Novel Award.
• My shortlisted short story, ‘ESO 378 Nebula’, is available in the 2017  Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology
• Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in the Flash Fiction Category
• My flash fiction, ‘The Deer’ Highly Commended in the Bare Fiction Prize  is available at at Bare Fiction
• My flash fiction, ‘Somnambulists’, is available via the short story dispenser at Edmonton International Airport
• My short story, ‘Saguaro Night’ is available over at The Short Story 
• My flash fiction, ‘Kodokushi’, is available in Everyday Fiction
• My micro-fiction is available in the Storytelling edition of The Creative Review
• My flash fiction, ‘Like Fireflies Over Lake Erie’, is available in Issue 7 of (b)OINK
• My flash fiction, ‘1 + 1 = 3’ is available over at Ellipsis Zine and in the print anthology ‘One’ and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018
• My Flash Fiction, ‘I Wonder If You Remember’, is available over at the 2017 Flash Flood Journal as part of the celebrations for National Flash Fiction Day
• My short story, ‘Catch it, hold on to it, never let it go’, is available in Issue 8 of The Nottingham Review in July 2017
• My  flash fiction , ‘Coconut Fever’ is available at Ink, Sweat and Tears
• My short story, ‘And White Horses Danced On The Shore’ is available at The Lonely Crowd
• My micro-fiction, ‘Mango’ was Highly Commended in the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day Competition and is available in the 2017 NFFD Anthology, ‘Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour’.
• My short story, ‘Red For Stop, Green For Go’,  is published in  Volume 32 Issue 1 of Folio Magazine [print only]
• My flash fiction, ‘The Queen Of The Netherlands’, is available at at  Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
• My essay, ‘Our Epic Journey From Nothing To Nowhere’ on the short story collection, ‘The Foxes Come At Night’, by Cees Nooteboom, is published in Thresholds Journal

PUBLISHED 2016

• 2016: Longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award with my Young Adult novel, ‘Tell Me, Cody, Where’d You Go?’
• 2016: BBC World Service International Playwriting Competition Commended for my play “Digging”
• 2016: Shortlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award
• 2016: Longlisted for the Bath Short Story Award
• 2016: Faber Academy Quick Fic Runner-Up with my very short story ‘Swans’
• 2016: My flash fiction ‘424 Likes’ is included in the 2016 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology ‘A Box Of Stars Beneath The Bed’
• 2016: My flash fiction ‘Sunshine and Pigeons’ was publshed in the Flash Flood Journal on June 25th 2016
• 2016: Shortlisted for the A3 Review micro-fiction competion with my micro fiction ‘Tell Me About It‘
• 2016: Shortlisted for the A3 Review micro-fiction competition with my micro fiction ‘Aubergine‘

PUBLISHED 2015

• 2015: Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize  Short Story Category
• 2015: Short story “Struck” in Writers Abroad 2015 Anthology “Kaleidoscope”
• 2015: Short story “Hush Said The Grass” in Crack The Spine
• 2015: ‘Walking Inside Ourselves’ an essay on Janet Frame in Thresholds
• 2015: My review of ‘Dinosaurs On Other Planets’ by Danielle McLaughlin in The Irish Times
• 2015: Longlisted for Flash 500 quarterly competition

2014

• 2014: Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize Flash Fiction Category
• 2014: My story “The Gymnast” a notable story in the Story South Million Writers Award .
• 2014: Litro Magazine My Biggest Secret story competition winner with my short story “Mother Love”
• 2014: National Flash Fiction Day 2014  flash fiction “Where Memories Live” in 2014 Anthology “Eating My Words”
• 2014: National Flash Fiction Day (UK) Highly Commended for my flash fiction “Peppermint” included in NFFD 2014 Anthology “Eating My Words”
• 2014: Litro Magazine Environmental Disaster short story prize for my story “Tulips”
• 2014: Longlisted for Flash 500 quarterly competition

2013

• 2013: Editor’s Choice Prize Raymond Carver Short Story Competition Carve Literary Magazine for my short story “The Gymnast”
• 2013: Stories For Homes Anthology edited by Debi Alper and Sally Swingewood.
  “Ten Stories High”
• 2013: National Flash Fiction Day Calum Kerr’s Flash Flood Selection
  “Worse Things Happen At Sea”
• 2013: Accelerate Education
  Three stories used in Language Arts 10 module
• The Gymnast
  Dog Collar
  Julia’s Garden

2009

• 2009: BBC World Service International Radio Playwriting Competition
• Commended for my radio play “How To Carve Small Figurines”

2004

• 2004: The Guardian Poetry Workshop With Ruth Fainlight
• For my poem “It’s Only When He Turns The Pages, Touches The Paper, That His Eyes Light Up”

2001

• 2001: BBC World Service International Radio Playwriting Competition
• Regional Winner for Europe for my radio play “The Circus”.

JOURNALISM & ESSAYS

I also write  regular columns for Mash Stories and my columns for Litro can be found over at Litro Magazine

Interview with Kerrin Piché Serna 3rd place winner in 2014 Raymond Carver Contest for Carve Magazine – print only.

WRITING RELATED PROJECTS & COURSES FOLLOWED

On May 14th 2016 I gave a talk on flash fiction at the American Book Center in The Hague

I am a Resident Reader for Carve Literary Magazine

From November 2013 to October 2016 I was a Senior Advisor and Editor for Mash Stories

From November 2014 to April 2015 I was the Flash Fiction Editor for Litro Magazine

In June 2014 I was an editor for The Write In event as part of National Flash Fiction Day (UK)

Guest judge for the 2014 Carve Magazine Esoteric Prize

In March 2016 I completed the Advanced Creative Writing Course with Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. Tutored by Elizabeth Garner.

In June 2016  I completed  the ‘Starting to Write Your Novel’ course with Curtis Brown Creative

October 2016 I completed  the Fast Flash Workshop taught by Kathy Fish

INTERVIEWS WITH ME

I spoke to F.C. Malby about my writing process and editing work over at her blog

I discuss writing in an interview with Marie Gethins over at The Short Story

I spoke to Matthew Limpede, Executive Editor of Carve Magazine about my writing process and my short story The Gymnast in the Fall 2013 edition of Carve Magazine (print only)