WRITING

I write short stories and non-fiction.
I have been nominated for a number of literary awards including the V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize,
the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the DISQUIET Prize for Fiction,
and I received judges’s special commendation in The Stinging Fly / FBA Fiction Prize.
I was the lucky winner of a place on the Paul McVeigh West Cork Writing Residency 2026
and was the grateful recipient of a grant from the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust.
I am looking for a home for my collection of queer historical short stories.
Read about some of my stories below.

1961

A thwarted gay romance takes place against the backdrop of ‘the greatest night in showbiz history’ – Judy Garland live at Carnegie Hall – a melancholic tale of a path not taken. 
Published in Transactions of Desire anthology (Cornerhouse). Re-published in Best British Short Stories (Salt).

three sailors

Magical realist fantasy informed by maritime literature and inspired by medical evidence of sailors with HIV in the 1940s.
Published in a Lambda-nominated issue of Foglifter.
Longlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.

stars

The dual concepts of the doppelgänger as a portent of doom and the 1970s gay clone are merged in the final San Francisco summer before AIDS. 
Published in The Stinging Fly.
Judges’ Special Commendation in The Stinging Fly / FBA Fiction Prize.