= story included in My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions

= story included in The White Road and Other Stories

 A Call To Arms,  Winner, 2013 Fiction Desk Flash Fiction Competition

In Triplicate,  Winner, Microfiction category, 2012 Hawthorne Citation short story awards.

The Beam Line, Winner, 2011 Diamond Light Reading synchrotron flash fiction competition, to be published in the winners anthology.

My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Grand Prize Winner, Binnacle 2009 Ultra short competition, published in the Ultra-Short issue, nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize.

Exchange Rates, Winner, 2009 Total Beast Six-Minute Play Competition, performed Bridewell Theatre, London, 31st Jan 2010

Straight Up, European regional winner, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's short story competition 2008-9 & Highly Commended, Biscuit Publishing's 2009 Flash Fiction competition, Highly Commended, Aesthetica Creative Works competition 2009

Vegetable, Mineral Joint winner, Biscuit Publishing's 2008 Flash Fiction competition; finalist, PANK magazine's 1,001 Awesome Words contest 2009, longlisted, Wigleaf 2011 Top 50 Very Short Fictions

Plaits, winner, Creating Reality's 2nd Flash 300 competition.


Mugs, 2nd prize in Creating Reality's 3rd Flash 300 competition.

  My Name is Henry, 2nd prize, Entelechy Journal's Biofiction contest, published in Issue #7.

Drinking Vodka in the Afternoon, 2nd prize in the Vignette Press 2008 short story competition, 3rd prize in the Momaya Press 2008 short story competition.


If Kissed By A Dragonfish 3rd prize, 2014 Nat'l Flash Fiction Day Microfic comp
A Song for Falling
, 3rd prize, 2013 Salt Flash Fiction Prize
At Didcot Parkway 3rd prize, 2012 New Writer Microfiction Prize


Delville Wood, The Somme, highly commended, Magma poetry comp (under 12 lines)
Dreams of a Tea Seller
, shortlisted, poetry section of the 2012 Bridport Prize
Me and Elvis Presley on Dartmoor, longlisted, 2013 Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Prize
The House of Meat, finalist, 2012 Words With Jam short story competition, will be published
Into The Waiting Arms of God, shortlisted, Unbound Press/Spilling Ink Flash Fiction contest 2011, forthcoming, prize anthology

Ankle Socks and Hair in Bunches, shortlisted, Whispered Words contest 2011, forthcoming, prize anthology

The Tragedy of Tragic Men, shortlisted, PANK magazine 2011 1001 Awesome Words contest, published Feb 2012

In Memoriam, finalist, the Binnacle 2011 Ultra Short competition, published, Ultra-short issue.

That Small Small inch, shortlisted, PANK magazine 2010 1001 Awesome Words contest

North Cold, Screenplay adapted from my story, finalist, Waterford Film Festival short screenplay competition 2009

And the Crowd Went Wild and
Transparency shortlisted Fish One-Page prize 2009

Come Back Tomorrow, originally published in Dogzplot, is included in Wigleaf's 2009 Top 50 stories under 1000 words.

Evie and the Arfids, finalist, Belvedere Writers Club competition, published in Talking to Strangers competition anthology.

The Hand, finalist, Binnacle 2007 Ultra short competition, published in the Ultra-short issue.

Sorry, finalist in Slingink's 2007 140-word short shorts competition, published in the competition anthology.

Thin Ice, finalist in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short competition, published in their Ultra-short edition

Heavy Bones, shortlisted, Frogmore Press short shorts competition, published in March 2007 issue.

Rainstiffness, short-listed, Cadenza 2006 Short Story Competition, 2006 Philip Good Memorial Competition and given an Honorable Mention in the Abroad Writers Short Story Contest 2007

The Last Page, short-listed, People's College Short Story Competition 2007

The Incredible Exploding Victor, short-listed for the Cadenza Short Story Competition Sept 2007

Egged On, shortlisted in the Biscuit Flash Fiction Prize 2007.

Back there shortlisted for Fish One-Page prize 2008

On A Roll, highly commended in the Tom Howard John Reid 2007 Short Story Competition.

The Library Book, commended, Leaf Books Micro-Fiction competition

The White Road (stage play adapted by me from my short story) commended in Total Beast 6-Minute Play comp

A Quark and A Smile long-listed for the Carve Magazine Short Story Award 2006

Self Raising, long-listed for the Fish Short Story Prize 2006/7

Garden Baby, long-listed, Happenstance Short Story Prize 2006/7

North Cold long-listed, Cadenza March 2007 Short Story Competition.