RECENT NEWS
Pioneering 1990s Manchester festival Queer Up North is back
Queer Up North archive and events celebrate Manchester festival’s legacy
Curtis Brown Breakthrough Class of 2025
Coffee and Poems Club featured in Manchester Finest and Creative Tourist
Behind the poetry club sweeping Manchester's cafe's - I Love Manchester
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
Queer Up Now - Manchester Literature Festival & Queer Up North
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Unpublished Zine: The Collective Grief of COVID-19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