2022 Final Approach shortlisted for the Literary Consultancy’s Pen Factor Live Pitch Awards
2022 Coronaviral Journal – extract published in Clover & Bee Magazine (Issue 3)
2022 The Wall has been selected by Dame Margaret Drabble as one of the top three from the shortlist for the Interact Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition and awarded runner up
2022 Scone published in Clover & Bee Magazine (Issue 2)
2022 Coronaviral Journal – extract published in Homecoming Zine
2021 Final Approach: Providenciales – shortlisted for publication by A3 Press
2021 Longlisted, Fish Flash Fiction Prize
2021 The Great Oak – also published by Rabbit Hole Short Stories
2021 Just Sign Here – runner-up in Rabbit Hole Short Story Competition
2020 It’s a Dog’s Life published in Illiterati Texts
2020 Airport LXX published in Moxy Magazine
2020 Shortlisted, Fish Lockdown Writing Prize
2019 Chapter published in Wolves in the Forest, SLF Books
2017 Shortlisted, Fish Short Memoir Prize
2017 1st Prize (Trip to Sydney), Heathrow 70 Writing Competition
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