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Queer Up North archive and events celebrate Manchester festival’s legacy
Curtis Brown Breakthrough Class of 2025
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Local Word Poetry Prize Judging covered by Times News Group and Forte Magazine
Writer in residence announcement on Geelong Libraries & Manchester City of Literature
PUBLISHED WRITING & PROJECTS
2026
Longlisted for the Finchale Award for Short Fiction by New Writing North
Salford Voices project and podcast - Art with Heart
Building My Dream Home in The Sims - The Bee Magazine
2024-25
How to embrace a romantic life - The File
Longlisted for the Quiet Man Dave Prize by Manchester Writing School
Pan Macmillan's He, She, They, Us 2024 anthology - Not Your GBF
Poetic Theft - Poetry School Course
Writing Working Class Folk - Portico Library Dynamic Collections
2022-23
Shortlisted for The Jericho Writers Jessica George Award
Longlisted for the Book Edits Prize
Poems by Post February 2022 edition - Lifetime
Five Stages - commissioned for Tyneside Cinema, part of New Creatives.
(Played on BBC Radio 6 Introducing Arts)
2021
Writing East Midlands - Writers Conference 2021
Leeds Poetry Festival: 2021 Anthology - Tracing Home
Unpublished Zine: The Collective Grief of COVID-19
Polari Press Anthology N°1: Creating in Crisis - The House and Pizza Buffet
Queerlings, Issue 1: Cherry POP, Modern breakup and Cottagin'
Untitled: Voices, Issue 2, Volume 1: Grindr Gone Wrong
2020
Creative Industries Trafford and Waterside Arts:
Behind the Eyes series for Pride Inside
Brag Writers, Issue 1: Now He's Gone
New Critique: Final Gifts, Nail Biting by South Friars Bay and Read 8:24