╰☆╮Publication & Awards╰☆╮

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Awards/Prizes:

• Platinum Award for 'Way Back Home' (Creative Futures Literary Award 2017)
• Commendation for 'The Making of a Smuggler' (Battered Moons Poetry Competition 2017)
• Recipient of Artists' International Development Fund Round 16 for Way Back Home: Artist Development and Collaboration in the Philippines
• Recipient of Jerwood/Arvon Mentorship 2017/2018
• Recipient of Dynamo Mentoring Scheme (Nine Arches Press) 2016
• Inventing Brother in Batangas Port (Commended) Creative Future Literary Awards 2016
• Writing West Midlands Room 204 (2015/16)
• Recipient of Grants for the Arts (Arts Council England) for Blakenhall Writers Anthology project (2015/16)
• Morning Run and Paper Plane (prize-winning poems) The Yellow Book (Rethink your mind, 2015)
• For Ted (Highly Commended) Carers UK Creative Writing Competition 2015 

Poetry:

2017

• Way Back Home - Creative Futures Literary Awards (forthcoming)
• The Making of a Smuggler - Battered Moons Poetry Competition
• Rice & Rain - debut poetry pamphlet from V. Press

2016

• Home, as always - Strange Horizons (Nov, 2016)
• Road Trip and After Class - On the Back of a Motorbike  (October, 2016)
• Inventing Brother in Batangas Port (commended) - Sea Change (Creative Future Literary Awards) (Sept, 2016)
• Change of Heart - I am not a silent poet (June, 2016)
• Once a Flower - Under the Radar magazine #17 (Nine Arches Press) (July, 2016)
• DNA - Blakenhall Writers Anthology: Poetry and prose on identity (March, 2016)
• English Tea - Blakenhall Writers Anthology: Poetry and prose on identity (March, 2016)
• Agimat - Blakenhall Writers Anthology: Poetry and prose on identity (March, 2016)
• Sage Toad - Poetry on Frogs (Fair Acre Press) (February, 2016)
• For Ted -  (highly commended) Carers UK Creative Writing Competition (January, 2016)

Previous publications:

• Cannock Chase - 'The Poetry of Staffordshire' (Offa's Press) (October, 2015)
• Day 6, Chicken Eggs and Rooftops, The First Fall, Piso - Easlit: Creative Writing, Literature and Art focused on East and South East Asia (August, 2015)
• Paper Plane - (Prize Winner) Rethink Your Mind Poetry Competition (March, 2015)
• Morning Run - (Prize Winner) Rethink Your Mind Poetry Competition (March, 2015)
• 'morning birdsong' - Tamarind Magazine #12 (November, 2014)
• The Bicycle - Firewords Quarterly (November, 2014)
• When I was born the whole town celebrated - Anak Sastra Literary Ezine  (October, 2014)
•  Sabong - Anak Sastra Literary Ezine (October, 2014)
• 'shadow' and 'apple' - Shamrock Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society (September, 2014)
• The Wait - Southlight Literary Magazine (Sept, 2014)
• What's become of me? - Southlight Literary Magazine (Sept, 2014)
• Waking Up - Songs of Eretz (May, 2014)
• Shelter - Songs of Eretz (May, 2014)
• 'Grandpa taught us' - The Poetry Fence (A project of Poet on the Farm of Acton Scott, 2014)
• 'mango trees'  - Haiku Journal (April, 2014)
• The last Christmas carol - Ink, Sweat, & Tears (December, 2013)
• In the Shed- The Cannon's Mouth (March, 2013)
• The Log - (Offa's Press) 'We're All In This Together' (2012)

Prose:

• Silent Thoughts (flash fiction) - Microfiction Monday (February, 2016)
• Chasing Deimos (a novel) - shortlisted for The Asian Writer 'Chick-Lit Competition' (August, 2014)
• Before Moving On (short story) - Blakenhall Words (2013)
• Little Adventures (short story) - Blakenhall Words (2013)
• The one who got the worst (play) Blakenhall Words (2013)