About me

I have been lucky enough to see my writing showcased or recognised in the following places.

Publications

 

• September (Offa's Press) (purchase here)

• In The Sticks (Offa's Press) - ed. (purchase here)
   

• The Shrewsbury Chronicle (2003)

• Hippopotamuse e-zine

• Blakenhall Words (Blakenhall Writers) (contact BW)

• The Poetry Fence, Acton Scott (view here)

• The Poetry of Shropshire (Offa's Press) (purchase here)

• Monkey Kettle issue 41

• Offa's Press website (read here)

• The Cannon's Mouth issue 51 (purchase here)

• Blakenhall Writers Anthology 2016 (contact BW)

• Leaveners Poet of the Month June 2016 (read here)

• The Cadaverine 

• The Poetry of Staffordshire (Offa's Press) (purchase here)

• Within Darkness & Light charity anthology (purchase here)

• Diverse Verse 3 (Walsall Poetry Society) (contact WPS)

• Diversifly (Fair Acre Press) (purchase here)

• Ink, Sweat and Tears (read here)

• Presence haiku journal issue 59 (purchase here)

• Southlight issue 22 (purchase here)

• Ink, Sweat and Tears 12 Days of Christmas 2018 (read here)

• Wolverhampton Literature Festival poetry anthology 2019

• Femku issue 9 (read here)

• Magma website (read here)

• Telling Toads project (read here)

• We Are 138 project (read here)

• Ripening Cherries (Offa's Press) (purchase here)

• Witch Magazine May 2020 (read here)

• As Above So Below Spring 2020 (read here)

• Coachhouse Times, June issue (Coachhouse Writers)

• Wolverhampton Literature Festival website (read here)

• Mookychick (read here)

• Words For The Wild (read/listen here)

• Nine Muses Poetry

• Offa's Press 'In The Sticks' virtual workshops (read at Cannock Chase, Wyre Forest, and Winter)

• Dust poetry magazine (read here)

• Green Ink Poetry 'Tempest' edition (read here)

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Collaborations

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• 'Fog Anatomy' collaboration with composer James Chan 

• 'Headland' collaboration with composer Jack Redman (listen here)

• 'On Stiperstones' and 'Sabrina/Severn Sunrise' collaboration with artist John Lloyd as part of PoArtry 2021

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Competitions

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• Commended in the Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2018

• Shortlisted in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Competition 2019

• Longlisted in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2016 and 2018

• Shortlisted in The Plough Prize 2018

• Longlisted in The Ginkgo Prize 2019

• Longlisted in the Yaffle Press Competition 2020

• Shortlisted in the Ironbridge Festival of Imagination Competition 2022

Performance

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• Poetry at the Arboretum, Walsall

• Wild Bytes café, Wolverhampton

• City Voices, Wolverhampton

• Country Voices, Ironbridge

• Stafford Arts Festival

• Wolverhampton Literature Festival

• Blakenhall Writers Anthology launches

• Home and Away, Wolverhampton

• The Poetry Lounge, Ludlow

• Shrewsbury Literature Festival

• YouTube (watch here)

• 'In The Sticks' project (watch here)

• Yes We Cant, Facebook

• Ironbridge Festival of Imagination

• Caffe Grande Slam, Dudley

• WORD Stafford

• Poetry of the Countryside, Museum of Cannock Chase & Wolverhampton Library

• Brum Radio Poets (listen here)

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