Stories
| Title | Written/ Published | Publication |
| "The Builder" | 1986/1986 | Momentum 3 |
| "Killing Time" | 1986/1986 | Clam 5 |
| "The Writer" | 1987/1987 | Momentum 5 |
| "Cast list" | 1987/2014 | Ink, Sweat & Tears |
| "Autumn and After" | 1987/1987 | Summit 2 |
| "New Life" | 1987/1987 | Dream 13 |
 SF. It came 4th in the 1987 charts. Stephen Baxter was 14th! | ||
| "The Last Man" | 1987/1989 | Momentum 11 |
| "Night and Day" | 1987/1987 | Nerve Gardens 2 |
| SF | ||
| "Prague '86" | 1987/2008 | Transmission 11, By all means |
| "Just Visiting" | 1987/2018 | Black Market Re-view |
| "Jenny" | 1988/2003 | Staple 55/56 |
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| "Mr Smith" | 1988/1988 | New Moon 5 |
| SF/humour | ||
| "The Birds" | 1988/1989 | Dream 22 |
| SF | ||
| "Evolution" | 1988/2007 | short fiction 1 |
| 1st prize in their inaugural competition. "'Evolution' is what so many stories aspire to be: familiar for its realism and yet new for its imaginative sphere. Raising the stakes, there's a level of objective empathy here - difficult territory for a writer, where a sensitive subject might slip into the sentimental, or alternatively be kept at too great a distance. But the story manages it with confident control, doling out the exposition in just the right amounts, moving between characters with wit and verve. A story where the narrator sits static in his Portobello armchair requires, perhaps, a more energetic mind than most, and this narrator has one. Always, there's something curious being mulled over, something whimsical in a whirligig of referents. Reagan's polyps as surprising a play as the assailing of Lord Hailsham with psychic bolts. To borrow an image, the story sways between a muted and a clashing adagio; images and emotions nicely in tune. The reader evolves with it at every unexpected turn" - Anthony Caleshu | ||
| "Dowsers" | 1991/1991 | Varsity 3rd May |
| 2nd prize - "an alternate future meets the present at the Bee Keepers Society slide show" | ||
| "Fair Cop" | 1991/1994 | Panurge 20 |
| "clever and original and funny" - John Murray | ||
| "Correspondence" | 1992/2015 | Necessary Fiction |
| "Movie Making" | 1993/1996 | Southfields 3 |
| Creative non-fiction | ||
| "Gold" | 1994/1997 | Acumen 27 |
| Creative non-fiction | ||
| "My love it is a red, red rose" | 1996/2016 | Jellyfish Review |
| "No Contest" | 1996/2019 | Cambridge Writers competition e-anthology Revenge |
| 2nd prize - "This story was so much fun; even after the zillionth read, I still found myself grinning" - Ingrid Jendrzejewski | ||
| "The Big Climb" | 1997/1999 | Staple 44, By all means |
| "It’s focused, restrained, and moving" - Tony Williams | ||
| "New Pastorals - a streetmap" | 1999/1999 | Riding the Meridian |
| "Russian Doll" | 2000/2004 | Aesthetica 5 |
| A recursive acrostic using the "Russian Doll" form. | ||
| "First there is a mountain" | 2000/2020 | Cambridge Writers competition e-anthology |
| 1st prize - "the yearning throughout the piece for connection and companionship – is absolutely beautifully done" - Una McCormack | ||
| "Their Little Secret" | 2001/2004 | Dream Catcher 14 |
| "reveals the depths of faith or illusion love can generate" - Paul Sutherland | ||
| "The Perfect Cover" | 2001/2009 | Bottom of the World |
| "Out of the blue" | 2004/2015 | Cambridge Writers competition e-anthology |
| "Magnificent details ... Highly commended, brilliantly written" - Anne-Marie Garvey | ||
| "Doors and Windows" | 2006/2012 | By all means |
| "Late" | 2006/2012 | By all means |
| "Alan arrives late and they end up wandering round a graveyard in the dark getting drunker and drunker on the cider Colin’s bought; they even manage to get themselves locked in. Like all the other stories there’s humour here but really I just felt embarrassed for these two. As one should" - Jim Murdoch | ||
| "Method of Loci" | 2007/2009 | Horizon Review, By all means |
| "The Economics of Despair" | 2007/2009 | Everyday Fiction |
| "Muses" | 2008/2009 | Staple 71 |
| "Together" | 2008/2014 | Toasted Cheese |
| "Definitions" | 2009/2011 | Under the Radar 8, By all means |
| "Olga" | 2009/2012 | By all means |
| "The Word Limit" | 2009/2014 | Stand |
| "Death and deception" | 2009/2015 | Honest Ulsterman |
| Creative non-fiction | ||
| "Forgiveness" | 2009/2024 | Fragmented voices |
| "Where rivers go" | 2009/2025 | Cambridge writers anthology |
| "Fractals" | 2010/2012 | By all means |
| "Out" | 2010/2011 | Ink, Sweat & Tears |
| "Metastasise" | 2010/2012 | Journal of Microliterature |
| A pun | ||
| "Nobody's Perfect" | 2011/2012 | Ink, Sweat & Tears |
| "Dreams" | 2011/2012 | By all means |
| "the ambition of showing how lives are knitted together, while eschewing the Big Meaning, is impressive and worth pursuing" - Tony Williams | ||
| "Snapshots" | 2012/2016 | Forge Literary Magazine |
| "Inside" | 2013/2014 | Giant Pygmy |
| "The right time and place" | 2013/2015 | Spelk |
| "A New Start" | 2014/2015 | Cortland Review |
| "Art and Fire" | 2014/2015 | Spelk |
| "Poetry and Death" | 2014/2016 | Connotation Press |
| Creative non-fiction | ||
| "Scapegoat" | 2014/2017 | Unthology |
| "Deathbed" | 2014/2017 | Ellipsis Zine |
| "Doctors and Reviewers" | 2014/2017 | Cake |
| "Psychological Profiling" | 2014/2017 | Cake |
| "Theories of Meaning" | 2014/2017 | Cake |
| "Awareness" | 2014/2017 | Cake |
| "Woman Trouble" | 2014/2018 | Cambridge Writers competition e-anthology |
| "What to believe" | 2015/2015 | New Walk |
| "The Dark" | 2015/2017 | Flash 9.2 |
| "The New Me" | 2015/2017 | Fictive Dream |
| "Interiors" | 2015/2017 | Firefly |
| "Rejection" | 2015/2017 | Drabble |
| "Poet and Artist" | 2015/2017 | Cake |
| "Dear Sir or Madam" | 2015/2017 | Cake |
| "Matters of life and death" | 2015/2020 | Postbox |
| "Think global, act local" | 2015/2023 | Loftbooks |
| "Time to go" | 2015/2025 | Marrow |
| "A family tradition" | 2016/2016 | Toasted Cheese |
| "The Toilet Rolls Sketch" | 2016/2017 | The Stockholm Review of Literature |
| "Three Summer Flights" | 2016/2017 | Brilliant Flash Fiction |
| "Istanbul" | 2016/2021 | CafeLit |
| "Absolution" | 2016/2022 | Wild Word |
| "Pick up" | 2016/2023 | Flashflood |
| "Truly Magical" | 2016/2024 | Full house |
| Best Microfiction 2025 nomination | ||
| "How time flies" | 2017/2017 | Spelk |
| "Party" | 2017/2017 | Ink, Sweat & Tears |
| "The Park" | 2017/2018 | Spelk |
| "Bat Enclosure" | 2017/2018 | Dogzplot |
| "Class" | 2017/2019 | Unbroken |
| "Electricity" | 2017/2022 | Pure Slush |
| "The Cat Project" | 2017/2024 | Cambridge Writers Newsletter |
| "Other plans" | 2018/2019 | Flashflood |
| "What she missed" | 2018/2019 | Spelk |
| "Oh I do like to be" | 2018/2019 | Postbox |
| "The Promise of science" | 2018/2019 | Spelk |
| "Caring" | 2018/2019 | Toasted Cheese |
| "It's not rocket science" | 2018/2020 | Paragraph Planet |
| "Another Year" | 2018/2020 | Spelk |
| "Hope" | 2018/2020 | FlashFlood |
| "Nobody's fault" | 2018/2021 | Ellipsis Zine 9 |
| "Metamorphosis" | 2019/2021 | Orbis |
| "Breaking the circle" | 2019/2022 | York Literary Journal |
| "The women in my life" | 2019/2024 | Wensum Review |
| "The first step" | 2019/2024 | Microfiction 123 |
| "Balancing the books" | 2020/2021 | Under the Radar |
| "Chaos theory" | 2020/2021 | Fragmented Voices |
| "Visitors" | 2020/2021 | Cambridge Writers competition e-anthology |
| "Lapland" | 2020/2022 | Black Nore Review |
| "Wildlife" | 2020/2023 | Cambridge writers competition anthology |
| "It's never too late" | 2020/2023 | Literally stories |
| "Going away" | 2020/2026 | Cambridge Writers competition anthology |
| "Run, run" | 2021/2021 | Splonk 5 |
| "All I can say" | 2021/2022 | The Dribble Drabble |
| "Snap" | 2021/2022 | Cambridge Writers competition e-anthology |
| "Made for each other" | 2021/2023 | JMWW |
| "Tattoo Park" | 2022/2023 | Worcester Review |
| "Not Far" | 2022/2023 | Toasted cheese |
| "Making it better" | 2022/2023 | Briefly zine |
| "A promising writer" | 2022/2023 | 51 and a half games and ideas for writers |
| "Getting on" | 2022/2023 | Dreamcatcher |
| "Breaking up" | 2022/2024 | Worthing flash |
| "Tryptich" | 2022/2025 | Metaworker |
| "Props" | 2022/2026 | Mugwort |
| "Dressed to kill" | 2022/2026 | Hoolet's Nook |
| "Disappearing" | 2023/2023 | Moonpark review |
| "Past and present" | 2023/2023 | Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 6 |
| "Clichés" | 2023/2023 | Pure Slush: Loss |
| "Lockdown" | 2023/2023 | Suddenly and without warning |
| "Retribution" | 2023/2024 | Spillwords |
| "Magic Numbers" | 2023/2024 | Leicester Writes anthology |
| Shortlisted in their 2024 competition | ||
| "Giving him hope" | 2023/2025 | Hoolet's Nook |
| "Ending it all" | 2023/2025 | TSS publishing |
| Shortlisted in their 2025 competition | ||
| "The scientists are coming" | 2023/2026 | Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 8 |
| "Best supporting role" | 2024/2025 | Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 7 |
| "Different backgrounds" | 2024/2025 | Postbox |
| "Body language" | 2024/2025 | Toasted Cheese |
| "A good show" | 2025/2026 | BigCityLit |
| "Stolen moment" | 2025/2026 | Flash Flood |
Articles
Acumen 21, 29, 49, 58, 66, 73; Envoi 121; Jennings 7; Link 69, 75; Miscellanea 3; Poetry Nottingham 52.3, 53.4; Sol 30, Threshold 2014, Hinterland 2014, Lighthouse
Reviews
Staple 58; Poetry Nottingham 62.2
Letters
Acumen 18, 22, 24, 26, 30, 36, 45, 65; Dreams 29; Envoi 113, 127; Panurge 9; Poetry Nottingham 49.3; PN Review 98; Rialto 46
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