Awards
2019 VS Pritchett short story prize longlist
2018 Hippocrates Poetry Award commendation
2016 Northern Writer New Fiction Bursary
2015 Edgehill Prize longlist
2015 Frank O’Connor Prize longlist
2012 Luke Bitmead Novel Award shortlist
2012 Edgehill Prize longlist
2011 Read Regional Recommendation
2010 Northern Writer Award
2010 Cinnamon Press novel Award shortlist
2009 winner Mslexia short story competition
2007 Residential Prize winner Biscuit Publishing
2004 Northern Promise Award
2004 Novel shortlisted Lit Idol national competition
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Projects
2022 Speaker at Sunderland Symposium: Humanities in Medicine
2016–2020 BBC 2 500 words children’s competition Judge
2013 Writing mentor for New Writing North Cuckoo project
2010 Art’s council representative Toronto short story conference
2010 National Short Story Day commissioned story ‘Cinderella’ broadcast
2008 Queens Nursing Institute Award Creative Writing as a therapeutic tool
2007 Writing mentor regeneration project/New Writing North 2007
2006 Writing mentor Creative centre/New Writing North 2006
Regular contributor to Independent Nurse (Journal for Professional Nurses)
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