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Recently Published

Dissolving
In Memoriam      

Experimentation  
Burrowing Blind        
Move Quickly Now     
The Watch My Father Wanted    
Her Dirt
We Watched Him On Our Screens
Waving on the Moon
Timeless
Moss
All Activity is Silent     
Like Owls   
r.kv.r.y
Binnacle Ultra Short (print)
New Scientist (print & online) Metazen
Beat The Dust

Metazen
Wellcome Collection blog
Photo Stories
A cappella Zoo (print)
. Cent Magazine (page 13)
Alba Journal of Short Poetry

Kill Author

SPECS
(print) (see a video of   me reading it here)
Forthcoming

The Tragedy of Tragic Men
          
Under the Tree                             
Colours Shift and Fade

The Beam Line  




Into The Waiting Arms of God
             


PANK (Feb 2012)

Electric Velocipede Frogmore Press
Diamond Light Reading Competition Winners Anthology

Unbound Press/Spilling Ink Flash Fiction prize anthology
                                                                                                 
Published
 
A cappella Zoo
Einstein Plays Guitar
Waving on the Moon
We Keep the Wall Between Us as We Go

Alba Journal of Short Poetry
Moss

The Beat
Doing it in Eden

Beat the Dust
Move Quickly Now

Binnacle Ultra-Short
The Hand
Thin Ice

My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Winner, 2009 UltraShort contest, nominated for Pushcart prize.

BRAND magazine
And Bruised
The Google 250
 

Bristol Science Faculty Blog
Drink Me

.CENT Magazine
Timeless  (page 13)

Cafe Irreal
Dog Daze
Tiny Red Heart

Contrary
Baby in a jar
My Flickering Self

Creating Reality
Mugs, 2nd prize, 3rd Flash 300
Plaits,
Winner, 2nd Flash 300

Dogzplot
Come Back Tomorrow

Drunk & Lonely Men
And Bruised

Eleven Eleven
Prologue

Every Day Fiction
Fish-Filled Sea
Go Away

Eyeshot
How Much the Ants Carry

Frogmore Papers
Heavy Bones

Front & Centre
Exchange Rates, Issue #15, Front&Centre. Adapted into a short play which won 2009 Total Beast Six Minute Play competition.

Greatest Uncommon Denominator
Splitting the Atom

Hiss Quarterly
Chemistry

Ink Sweat and Tears
Birthday cake

LA Review
Dangerous Shoes

LabLit
Sci Idol
 

LauraHird.com
Sunspots

Literary Fever
Sweet Music

Litro
Think of Icebergs
Tiny Unborn Fish
London Park

London Magazine
The Mathematics of Sunshine
Transparent

Mad Hatter's Review
Containing Art
Life Bursts Out
Trams and Pies

Metazen

Ending, She is Blue
The Family

In Triplicate
It Begins With Birds in Flight

Retreating I Retreated
The Watch My Father Wanted



Momaya Press 2008 Prize Anthology

Drinking Vodka in the Afternoon, 3rd prize winner

Nature Futures


The Perfect Egg (download the PDF).

Necessary Fiction

Graveside

Orphan Leaf Review
The Flower Seller

PANK

A Sigh Rose Inside Him
Missy
My Uncle's Son
Suitcases Balanced on His Head

That Small Small Inch
Underground
Vegetable Mineral

Pedestal
Inchworms
She is Misled

Prose Poem Project
A Scar Sits Above My Heart

Steel City Review
Space Fright

Ranfurly Review
At Camden Town He Said He Loved Me
I Say
On the Kitchen Table

Riptide
North Cold
, Issue #2, Riptide. Screenplay adapted from the story, finalist, Waterford Film Festival short screenplay competition 2009


Steel City Review
Space Fright

Transmission
Express

Vestal Review
Colours Shift and Fade


Audio


All Activity is Silent  in kill author

Vegetable Mineral in 4'33 mag
Straight Up European regional winner, 2008 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association short story competition
The Painter and the Physicist read at Liars League on March 10th 2009
The Angel in the Car Park and Egged On, broadcast on Rethink Daily's Sharp Things podcast

BBC Radio 4

Drinking Vodka in the Afternoon
On A Roll

The White Road (listen here)
FLASH!:
At Camden Town He Said He Loved Me
Go Away
The Google 250
Heavy Bones
Heart

The Mathematics of Sunshine
LIke Owls
Maneouvres
Missy
Mugs
My Mother Was An Upright Piano
Plaits

Sweet Music
The Painter and the Physicist
Transparent

We Keep the Wall Between Us as We Go


Included in anthologies
For more details see BOOKS

Dangerous Shoes, Plaits, Think of Icebergs and Transparent,
Slightly Peculiar Love Stories, Rosa Mira Books, 2011

Evie and the Arfids
, Belevedere Writers' Club anthology, Talking to Strangers, 2007, and the On the Clock anthology, 2010


Mugs. 100 Stories for Haiti, 2010

On A Roll, Ideas Above Our Station, Route Publishing, 2006

Secrets, Riffing on Strings, creative writing inspired by string theory, 2008
 

Straight Up,  Exposure, Cinnamon Press, 2010
 

The White Road, Wonderwall, Route Publishing, 2005

We Are All Made of Protein But Some of Us Glow More Than Others
. Litmus, Comma Press, 2011



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