Writer, teacher, crafter
Awards and Publications
I often enter writing competitions and submit both short stories and articles to magazines and online journals. On this page, I've listed some of my recent competition wins and places where my work has been published.
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February 2020
- Dinobibi Germany travel guide listed on Amazon
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November 2019
- Dinobibi Spain travel guide listed on Amazon
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October 2019
- Dinobibi China travel guide listed on Amazon
- Dinobibi Italy travel guide listed on Amazon.
- Shortlisted in the Writing Magazine 'without' short story competition.
- Article published in Writing Magazine - 'Bright Young Things', a guide to getting started as a young writer
- Articles published in the Town Crier magazine, including a feature on BBQs, BBQ recipes and my regular column - Crafty Corner
- Winner of a poetry competition hosted by The Care Workers Charity
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September 2019
- Dinobibi France travel guide listed on Amazon.
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August 2019
- Dinobibi UK travel guide listed on Amazon.
- Article published in Writing Magazine - 'Hashtag Heaven', a guide to getting using Twitter as a writer
- Articles published in the Town Crier magazine, including 'Home & Away' - a travel feature, and my Crafty Corner column on silk painting
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July 2019
- Articles published in the Town Crier magazine, including a feature on home decor.
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June 2019
- Article published in Writing Magazine - a guide to getting started as a travel writer
- Articles published in the Town Crier magazine, including a feature on BBQs, BBQ recipes and my regular column - Crafty Corner
- Won 3rd place on the Win Your Way to Swanwick short story competition
- Shortlisted for the SWF Creative Writers Group short story competition on the theme of 'My Earliest Childhood Memory'
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May 2019
- Article published in Ireland's Own magazine - an interview with Anna Currey, the Irish illustrator who has worked with Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson
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February 2019
- Cross Stitch Crazy magazine published my article on Palentine's Day cross stitch kits
- Winner of The Open Page's flash fiction competition
January 2019
- Longlisted for the Writing Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Competition
November 2018
- Travel memoir 'Jackrabbit' published on Vamp Cat Magazine, an online literary journal
- 2nd place in the Morgen Bailey 100-word story competition, with 'Departure from Reality as I Take the Big Black Dog for a Walk'
- Article published in Ireland's Own magazine - a biography of Lafcadio Hearn
October 2018
- Runner-up for the Writing Magazine First Line Short Story Competition, with 'The Day Everything Changed'
- Honourable mention in the Morgen Bailey 100-word story competition, with 'The Complex Nature of Middle Children'
September 2018
- 1st place in the Scribophile Kigo is King Haiku competition, with my five springtime haiku
- 3rd place in the Morgen Bailey 100-word story competition, with 'The Smallest Snips of Silk'
- My story 'Clumsy Miss Eleanor' was published on Cafe Lit
August 2018
- My story 'Altruism Comes Sealed in a Paper Pouch' was published on Cafe Lit
July 2018
- My story 'A Swedish Souvenir' was published on Cafe Lit
- My Story 'Brains, Brawn and Beauty' was published on Cafe Lit
May 2018
- My story 'Hope is...' was shortlisted for the Retreat West Photo Flash Challenge #2
- My story 'The Doll in the Sateen Dress' won second place in the Avid Writers dialogue competition
March 2018
- Cross Stitch Crazy magazine published my article on Hygge
February 2018
- Cross Stitch Crazy magazine published my article on Valentine's cross stitch kits
December 2016
- Article The Thing With Travelling Writers Writing Something Other Than Travel Writing published on Pudding Shop Press
June 2012
- Article A Whistle-Stop Tour of China published in magazine That's Zhejiang (China)
