Write. Edit. Submit. Repeat.

I have written poems and short stories since I could hold a pen, but I really only started submitting to publications in 2021. Nothing like a global pandemic to get you to reassess your priorities. The image shows one of my ‘dice doodles’. I draw and number pictures of things, people and places I find interesting. Whenever I run out of new ideas, I roll two dice to select some images, then try to find unexpected connections between them. Many of my published stories and poems started off this way.

nominations & listings

“weather warning” won the Beyond Words Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge, April 2025.

“Breakwater” was longlisted for Mslexia’s Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition, judged by Imtiaz Dharker (2023).

short stories & flash fiction

short story:
“Last Stop, Silence”
Treehouse Literary Review
Winter 2022 issue Chill Subs: “12 Short pieces of writing that brought the Wow factor.”

flash fiction (and recording):
“Self-Portrait of Someone Else”
New Flash Fiction Review
Issue 37, Summer 2025 (forthcoming)

film poem & spoken word

film poem:
“Bearings” (poem and voice)
appears in Women on a Roll—Amsterdam
documentary short by Alma Tabernero, AlmaBuena Films 2022.
Also released online as a stand-alone film poem.

poems & prose poems

poem:
“Family Portrait”
Beyond Words
issue 18, September 2021

poem:
“Fairy tale ending”
Rust & Moth
Autumn 2021 issue

poems:
“A Map of the Scars,” “Found Art,” “Still Waters”
Willows Wept Review
issue 22, Autumn 2021

poem:
“confession”
Prometheus Dreaming
Issue 4.2, March 2022

poem:
“monsters in the shape of people”
Wild Roof Journal
Issue 13, March 2022

haiku sequence:
“Corona Seasons”
San Antonio Review
May 2022

poems:
“Campfire” and “wreckage”
Eunoia Review
June 2023

poem:
“harvest diptych”
Word Up Pages
Issue 01 (“Origins”), September 2023

bilingual prose poem:
“mother tongue”
Transformation: A Women Who Submit Anthology, Jamii Pres

poem:
“mammogram”
Black Nore Review  
June 2024

shape poem:
 “as you light up”
Shooter Literary Magazine:
issue 18 (Nightlife), August 2024

poem:
 “a ghazal for Doggerland”
Ink, Sweat and Tears
22nd September 2024

poem and palindrome poem:
 “Channel Seascape” and “still lives”
The Passionfruit Review
Issue 12, October 2024

ekphrastic poem:
“weather warning” (won the Beyond Words Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge)
Beyond Words
Issue 57, April—May 2025

interviews & book reviews

book review:
The World That the Shooter Left Us, Cyrus Cassells
Passengers Journal
July 2022
Read Four Way Books’ lovely response here.

interview:
Chiagoziem Confidence Jideofor: music, identity, and memory
Passengers Journal
October 2022

interview:
Yearning for connection: an interview with Teresa Pham-Carsillo
Passengers Journal
December 2023

Interview:
interview with Brenda Miller on what’s beyond the physical
Passengers Journal
February 2023

other publications

column:
Bear Necessities
Mslexia, Issue 98,
June 2023
Column where writers submit images of objects and explain why they are important to their writing process.