22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop was published in June 2025 from CHEERIO Publishing, featuring work drawn from over five years of both the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. The anthology includes the author’s short story, Damsons. It is available to order now.
Damsons (short story) was Runner Up in the Desperate Literature Prize 2023 and published in Eleven Stories Desperate Literature Prize Shortlist Selection (2023). It was the top pick of competition judge Mariana Enríquez.
“I love the simplicity with which ‘Damsons’ embeds the Weird, along with
Mariana Enríquez (Our Share of Night)
the notion of ancient gods, into the familiar, the everyday. The story’s
quiet details shape a text approaching folk horror, where innocence
conceals an ancient rite brimming with potent menace.”
The Second House (short story) was published in the anthology Eye Spy from University of Bournemouth’s Fresher Press in October 2021.
Let the Wild Ones Pass Through (short story) was selected as the Winner of The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020. The story stood out from more than 3,000 entries from around the world and was selected as the winner after three rounds of judging. The story also received an Honourable Mention in the New Millenium Writing Awards 55 (2023).
The Yule Ghoul (flash fiction) was published by Tiny Owl Workshop as part of their innovative Krampus Crackers Flash Fiction Project, Dec 2014.
Rattenkönig (short story) was the Winner of the Tethered By Letters Summer Short Story Competition 2014 and was published in the Tethered By Letters Quarterly Journal, Aug 2014.
The Dreamhouse (short story) was published in the Eyelands 2013 Anthology from Strange Days Books, Nov 2013.
Monsters in Eden 