I’m an older, neurodivergent writer from Northumberland, UK. I won the Hexham International Poetry Competition in 2023, and have been nominated for Best of the Net 2025. My poetry collections ‘Rooted’ (Maplestreet Press) and ‘Dragged Up:A Northern Childhood’ (60 Odd Poets) were both published in 2024. Im looking for an agent for my second novel ‘Who Do I Think I Am?’ You can find me at ‘Musings of a Mad Woman’ on Substack
Selected work
- Fiction
10
- Nonfiction
1
- Poetry
32
- Other
1
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Dream Well Writing, 2025
Fearless
Linen Press, 2023
When the Earth Got Too Heavy
Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2024
Persephone
The Dawn Treader, 2024
People Try to Get a Picture of the Supermoon
Curious Squirrel, 2025
‘Oh, I Think You’re Still Muted’
Free Flash Fiction, 2025
Lilith the Harpy
Lobster Salad and Champagne, 2024
Brainsick
Drawn to the Light, 2023
Aloe Vera
2022
A Letter About a Relationship
The Letters Page, 2024
Green Magic: Stories of Hope and Power
2025
Set the World on Fire
Suddenly, And Without Warning , 2024
Walking on a Worm Night
Seedlings, 2024
Underwater Forest in ‘Thin Spaces, Sacred Spaces’
Amethyst Press, 2024
An Approximation of Love
Discretionary Love, 2024
Big, Dark, Grey Birds
Gypsophila Zine, 2024
In Like Flynn
Sparks of Calliope, 2024
Mother Love, Hephaestus
Mediterranean Poetry, 2024
Neonatal Baby Blanket
Raising The Fifth, 2024
No Fantasy Stories ….
Free Flash Fiction, 2024
POTS Outdoors
boats against the current, 2024
Sanctuary
Wensum Literary Magazine, 2024
Shoe Stall
Sparks of Calliope, 2024
Similar Shapes, or How a Fish is Like a Hand
Alba Magazine, 2024
Spring Storm
The Frogmore Papers, 2024
‘Swing’ and ‘Sea’
Obsessed with Pipework, 2024
The Drama of Having a Poet in the Car in Spring
Vita & the Woolf Literary and Arts Journal, 2024
The Fruit or Cheese Moment
Vita & the Woolf Literary and Arts Journal, 2024
The Metaphor of Work
Sparks of Calliope, 2024
Slipping Away
Facing Goodbye Anthology by Wee Sparrow Press, 2024
Everything is Rushing
Buttonhook Press Open Journal of Arts and Letters, 2023
What Does the Tide Mean
Southlight, 2023
Weeds
Green Ink Poetry, 2023
The Hood and the Wolf and the Night
Visual Verse, 2023
Brainsick
Drawn to the Light Press, 2023
Castles in the Air
The Northumbrian, 2023
Detritus
Amsterdam Quarterly, 2023
Mermaid
Black Nore Review, 2023
‘Spindle, Thread and Scissors’ and ‘Apart’
Orbis Quarterly Literary International Journal, 2023
‘Stately Home’ ‘Death by Procedure’ ‘Dusk at the Allotment’ ‘Forms of Help’ ‘One Pound Coin’
Dreich Magazine, 2023
The Past is Another Country
Flash Fiction North, 2023
You Can Tell Where I’ve Been
The Amphibian Literary Journal, 2023
Kindnesses
Ten Poems of Kindness, Vol 2, Candlestick Press, 2023
Slipping Away
Tabula Rasa by The Linen Press, 2023