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
PROJECTS
- 2022 Speaker at Sunderland Symposium: Humanities in Medicine
- 2016- 2020 BBC 2 500 words children’s competition Judge
- Writing mentor for New Writing North Cuckoo project 2013
- Art’s council representative Toronto short story conference 2010
- National Short Story Day commissioned story ‘Cinderella’ broadcast 2010
- Queens Nursing Institute Award Creative Writing as a therapeutic tool 2008-10
- Writing mentor regeneration project/New Writing North 2007
- Writing mentor Creative centre/New Writing North 2006
- Contributor to Independent Nurse (Journal for Professional Nurses)