Awards/Projects

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)