latest poetry & short stories
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Story in New Flash Fiction Review
It’s been a while since I published flash fiction, so I’m really pleased that “Self-Portrait of Someone Else” will appear in the Summer issue of NFFR, alongside my audio recording.
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Ekphrastic Poem in Beyond Words
“weather warning”, based on Andreea Ceplinschi’s photographs, won Beyond Words’ ekphrastic poem challenge and appears in their April—May 2025 issue (Issue 57).
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"Elegy" nominated for a Pushcart
I owe thanks and gratitude to the editors of Rust & Moth for nominating my poem “Elegy” for a 2026 Pushcart Prize. The poem was first published in their Spring 2024 issue.
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Two Poems in The Passionfruit Review
Two of my poems appeared in the winter 2024 issue of The Passionfruit Review. "Channel Seascape" is one of my North Sea eco-poems; "still lives" is my first reverse poem.
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Ghazal in Ink Sweat & Tears
One of my North-Sea ecopoems, "a ghazal for Doggerland," about the submerged land that once connected the UK to mainland Europe, was published in Ink, Sweat and Tears this September.
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Shape Poem in Shooter
Thank you to Shooter and Melanie Sykes-White for publishing this piece! I wrote “as you light up” during the pandemic lockdowns as a love letter to London, clubbing and crowds.
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Poem in Black Nore Review
“Mammogram” is my take on a mirror poem. I thought the mechanical form echoed the experience of having a mammogram. I was lucky—the lumps turned out to be just benign cysts.
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Bilingual Poem in WWS Anthology
I’m a member of Women Who Submit, an organisation for women writers: “mother tongue”, my first bilingual prose poem, will appear in their latest anthology, Transformation (Jamii Press).