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I write poetry, fiction, non fiction and text for performance. My work has been published in literary journals, anthologies and online. Juliet Stevenson read one of my poems live on BBC Radio 3 . My short story “Forest Walk” was performed as Live Literature at Brighton’s Theatre Royal. My poetry has been published in journals including Finished Creatures, The Moth, The Rialto, Stand, Envoi, Prole, SMOKE, Marble and The Dawntreader. And it has won, been runner up, reached the top 10 and been shortlisted in major competitions including The Bridport Poetry Prize and the Mairtin Crawford Poetry Award. I was selected for a place on New Writing South's 2019 Writers' Place Poets development programme and have attended writing workshops and masterclasses with Mark Doty, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Adam O'Riordan, Catherine Smith, Rommi Smith, Sean Levin and Jean Sprackland. I have been delighted to attend inspiring workshops, courses and masterclasses at Arvon, Troubadour, Poetry East, New Writing South, Lewes Live Lit and at the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh, Northern Ireland. I have read my work at poetry nights, literature events, at competition awards, exhibition openings, at Artist Open Houses, book launches and in collaborative performance with musicians, dancers, film makers and visual artists in Brighton and London. I am currently working on a pamphlet and am exploring how to integrate some of my more unusual writing into compositions with music and sound. |
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Writing successes and publication
Publication of Den in Finished Creatures 7 in 2023. Performance of Forest Walk as Live Literature at Brighton’s Theatre Royal 2023 Publication of Finlandia in The Moth 47 2021. Publication of Click and After the First Aid class in The Rialto 95 2021 Publication of Under the stairs in Stand 18/4 poetry journal 2020 Shortlisted - The Rialto pamphlet competition 2020 Longlisted - in Indigo Dreams First Pamphlet Competition 2020 Publication of Sea change in SMOKE 66, May 2020. Publication of Landfall, Liverpool in Marble 6, 2020. Publication of Sketching the river in SMOKE 65, December 2019. Selected as one of 15 poets for New Writing South's Writers' Place Poets development programme 2019 Publication of Woodcut in The Dawntreader 044, October 2018 Publication of The Cerulean Scarf and Low tide, Crosby in Prole 26, August 2018 Selected as one of 12 poets for workshops with Mark Doty at Poetry East, London July 2018 Shortlisted for the Mairtin Crawford Poetry Award June 2018. Publication of Uncle Bill playing 4'33" in Envoi poetry journal in February 2018 Poetry selected for one of 12 places for poetry masterclass with Mark Doty at the 2017 John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh, Northern Ireland Orchard Drive - Top 10 place Sussex Poets' Competition 2014 Publication of The Piano problem and A gathering of the clans - prose pieces published in New Writing South's Queer in Brighton anthology 2014 Uncle Bill playing 4'33" - Runner up BBC Proms Poetry competition, with poem read live on BBC radio 3 by Juliet Stevenson 2012 Typewriter tattoo - Script/text/visuals/soundtrack for Typewriter tattoo, Lewes Live Lit collaborative performance piece, rehearsed and performed in 2011 and 2012 Overgrown - First prize winner Moss Rich Pighog Poetry prize 2011 Strike - Top ten place Lightship competition and subsequently published in their anthology 2011 Publication of haiku in the anthology Pay attention: a river of stones 2011 Talking books - Published on Paraxis Library Wall 2011 Publication of For you in Writ on water anthology, in association with Keats' House, London 2010 Shortlisted - Straight from the stick - Shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize 2009 Publication of Blackthorn, first in Flashquake in 2009 and subsequently in my own limited edition pamphlet in 2010 |
"Woodcut" published in issue 044 of The Dawntreader poetry journal autumn 2018
Raising a glass in the John Hewitt pub in Belfast, after masterclass with Mark Doty at John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh city, 2017.
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