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Well this was a fab start to the week – have been SHORTLISTED in the Retreat West Monthly Micro competition, working with MILK as a theme. To read the shortlisted stories and vote for your favourite, just click on the link… Click here to read & vote
Thrilled to have ‘Fledgling’ included in the latest Retreat West Anthology, The Weight of Feathers, out NOW in both paperback and ebook… Click here to buy.
This UNCANNY theme really pushed me outside my writing comfort zone, so I was especially thrilled to be LONGLISTED!
A Scottish Wildcat – inspiration for my piece, The Fight of the Wyld Cattis, to be included in the WWF Great Scottish Canvas Project
Absolutely delighted that The Fight of the Wyld Cattis, my piece about Scottish Wildcats, will be included in the World Wildlife Fund Great Scottish Canvas , available to view in their virtual gallery here. It will also be exhibited at the Glasgow Science Centre during October, and will be printed in the Great Scottish Canvas book, which will be used during the UN Climate Conference, COP26.
Loved the theme of this month’s Retreat West Monthly Micro competition… BLOOM. And was delighted to be LONGLISTED!
June 2021 – Thrilled to have a flash piece LONGLISTED by Cranked Anvil Press…
July 2021 – Excited to have a foodie flash fiction piece accepted for publication in Potluck Zine… FEAST available now!
May 2021 – Delighted to be LONGLISTED in the Retreat West Quarterly Flash Competition
Thrilled to win the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Romance Matters summer flash fiction competition…. (Puffin Lessons is published in the latest issue)
April 2021 – Review of Kate Hewitt’s, When You Were Mine published in Good Housekeeping Magazine
January 2021 – Thrilled to be SHORTLISTED in the Retreat West Quarterly Flash Fiction competition
March 2021 – LONGLISTED in the Fish Publishing Short Story Competition
The Promise of Snow LONGLISTED in the Bath Flash Fiction Award, included in their latest anthology, Restore to Factory Settings (available in both ebook and paperback)
SHORTLISTED in the Flash 500, 2020 3rd Quarter competition
SHORTLISTED in the Retreat West Flash Fiction competition December 2020.
Doric short story, ‘Chartin His Wye Hame’, published by literary newspaper Northwards Now
