While my journalism and marketing side has plenty of bylines, I’m still a fledgling fiction writer gathering pace. You can find my stories in the below publications.
Speculative shorts
Hiding Under the Leaves
The Slab Press, 2025
Available here
Hiding Under the Leaves is an anthology of original folk horror short fiction, seeking beyond the boundaries of this fascinating sub-genre. From lonesome moors to dark woods, and the mysterious ocean depths, these stories explore the ghostly and the savage; the monstrous faerie and the beast within; the ritual and the obsession. New stories of unsettlingly old things. Tales of the eerie and uncanny. Dare you discover what is hiding under the leaves…?
Tales from the Ether
Available here
My short story For All Time, Dear Friend, was picked up by the Flash Fix podcast and led to it being included in this first Warwick Writers anthology.
Creative non-fiction
How To Be Self(ish)
Newsletter, 2021-2022
This is my journey towards becoming my own priority. Towards learning how to say no, to put myself first, to look after myself better. Towards self-care so that I can stick around to help and support the things and people that matter most to me. Read it here.
26 Wild
A joint project between 26 and The Wildlife Trusts, I wrote a centena (exactly 100 words) about an endangered species: the koala. Yes, the koala, post-2020 bushfire season. Details of the project are here, and my piece is here. The pieces were also published as part of a limited-edition book, The Story’s Not Over.
Bloomsbury Festival writer in residence
I joined the Bloomsbury Festival’s writers in residence through the writing non-profit organisation 26, and explored the festival for a day each year from 2019 to 2023, before writing a same-day creative response. Click on the year to read the piece:
26 Weeks
Ongoing conversation project with the organisation 26, looking at how various people around the UK are dealing with the pandemic. I’m speaking with the lovely Helen Deverell, who is pregnant with her first child. Read more here.
The Understory
A joint project between 26 and The Woodland Trust, I wrote a sestude (exactly 62 words) and accompanying essay inspired by the plight of the River Redgum trees in my native South Australia. The online publication of my piece, Cracked Foundations, is here, and the project was turned into a book, since out of print.
Writing on Glass
Produced as a joint project between Sutton Writers and the Heritage Services of Sutton Libraries, this is a collection of works inspired by the Past on Glass project. Boxes full of 10,000 glass photographic plates were discovered in the basement of an opticians in Sutton when the shop was being demolished as part of a road widening scheme; the plates were produced by a local photographer, David Knights-Whittome, in his shop in Sutton between 1900 and 1920. The collection is not commercially available.
Once Upon a Time
National Flash Fiction Day, 2012
Available here
I had a piece published in this anthology of modern and adapted fairy tales. It came from a competition run in conjunction with the UK National Flash Fiction Day in 2012.