Awards

Winner of the Ghost Story Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, USA (2023) for ‘The Lair’

Winner of the Writers Victoria Crime and Punishment Award/Scarlet Stiletto Award for the story with the most satisfying retribution, Australia (2022) for ‘Accession’

3rd place in the Yeovil Literary Prize, UK – novel category (2022) for ‘The Girl who Blinked’

Winner of the Glencairn Glass inaugural crime short story competition, UK (2021) with ‘Halmeoni’s Wisdom’ (competition run in partnership with Scottish Field Magazine and Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival)

Runner up in Mslexia short story competition, UK (2021) with ‘The Window’

3rd place in Sister’s in Crime, Scarlett Stiletto Short Story Awards, Australia (2019) with ‘The Fossil Hunters’

2nd place in The Moth Short Story Prize, Ireland (2019) with ‘The Gamekeeper’

Shortlisted in The Caterpillar Poetry Prize, Ireland (2018) with ‘Mum’s Menu’

Special Commendation in Sister’s in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Short Story Award (2018) with ‘The Wither Tide’

Shortlisted in The Bath Short Story Awards, UK (2017) with ‘Hollow’

Special Commendation in Sister’s in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Short Story Award (2016) with ‘The Hunt’

Shortlisted in Overland Wine Short Story Prize (2016) with ‘Sea-legs’

Special Commendation in Sister’s in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Short Story Award (2015) with ‘Watcher in the Woods’