The most disturbed mind in the room.


2025 The Only Way Out is Through published in best selling anthology, Twisted50 vol IV:Back from the Dead. Winner of the Most Disturbed Mind Award 2026.

No—Final Draft 2025 Big Break Screenwriting Competition. Semifinalist.

Trompe l’oeil longlist—Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award. Excerpt read at Fresh Words: Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Trompe l’oeil placed in top 100—Bath Novel Award.

Brand New Day (Feature film screenplay). BBC Open Call - placed in top 10% of all submissions.

2023 Swim (TV series pilot). BBC Open Call - placed in top 10% of all submissions.

2022 Cala Briste Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.

2019 Good People . Graphic memoir awarded Judges Mention at the Laydeez Do Comics Awards 2019.

Model Organisms - ‘The Chosen From The First Age’ short story anthology. (Shoreline of Infinity).

2018 Goodnight Rosemarinus - Shoreline of Infinity - Issue 13.  

Fabula Amoris - 404 Ink Literary Magazine #4 - Ink.

The Sleep Rider - published online by Aether & Ichor.

2017 Pain Relief - 404 Ink Literary Magazine #3 - Power.

Model Organisms - British Science Fiction Association Best Short Fiction Award Longlist.

2017 Co-edited Shoreline of Infinity - Issue 11 (with Pippa Goldschmidt).

2016 Model Organisms - Shoreline of Infinity - Issue 4.

Edinburgh Festival Magazine - Film reviewer Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Model Organisms - ‘Event Horizon’ reading at The Blind Poet, Edinburgh.

Criminal - Scottish Book Trust’s ‘Secrets and Confessions’.

2016 MA (Distinction) Creative Writing - Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.   

2013  Suck - Fish Publishing Short Story Prize - Longlist.

2012  Go Reassured - novel shared second place - The Writing Room: Literary Consultancy Bursary.

Mrs Walker - Bloody Scotland/Glengoyne Short Story Prize - Shortlist. Published in ‘Worth the Wait’ e-book (Blasted Heath).  Read at Bloody Scotland Festival.