Work
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Print Publications
‘Portrait of a Girl as Spinach’ and ‘The Year Prickled’ in a cough of pollen - Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 anthology selected by Zaffar Kunial (Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
‘Facebook Marketplace in Dreams’ in Issue 68 (The North Magazine)
‘Cutting’ and ‘The Patient’ in Articulations for Keeping the Light In (flipped eye publishing)
‘.Net (Extracts)’ in SMEOP (Black Sunflowers Press)
‘things which make my life difficult and my writing bad’ in So we go about our days: The winning and commended entries in the 2021 Winchester Poetry Prize selected by Jacqueline Saphra (Winchester Poetry Festival)
‘Love Bugs’ in Issue 4 (Channel Mag)
‘Potato’ in Issue 04 (Filler Zine)
‘Past Bedtime’ in Issue 7 (Lucent Dreaming)
‘6 – 31st August – Fragments’ and ‘Discharge’ in Issue #3 (ACHE Magazine)
‘Four Poems’ in UEA Poetry Anthology 2019 (Egg Box Publishing)
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Online Publications
‘The Cat Sitter Didn’t’, ‘Warm Weather’, ‘Ledge’ and ‘Muted’ in Edition 14 (Northern Gravy)
‘Spread’ in Issue 2 (And Other Poems)
‘Streaming & other poems’ in Issue 9 – Technology (Tentacular)
‘It is November 1st in New Cross and’ featured in the ‘Write Across London’ digital exhibit (Royal Society of Literature)
‘Back to Work’ (Ink, Sweat & Tears)
‘A Good Age to Go’ in SPAM002 (Spam zine & Press, 2021)
‘You Must Say No’ in Care in a Pandemic Zine (The Feminist Library, 2020)
‘I lost it down the back of the sofa but it’s ok because Mum found it’ and ‘Avocado’ in #3 (Algia)
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Awards and Commendations
‘No Good News Today’ (Highly Commended, Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2023)
‘Portrait of a Girl as Spinach’ and ‘The Year Prickled’ (Commended, Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
Longlisted for the Introduction to Playwriting Group at The Royal Court
Shortlisted for the UEA New Forms Award 2022
Shortlisted for the London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2021/2022
‘Streaming’ (Longlisted, The Butcher’s Dog)
‘things which make my life difficult and my writing bad’ (Commended, Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
Cream (shortlisted for publication by The Poetry Business)
Cream (pamphlet shortlisted by Write Bloody UK)
‘Much Too Little’ (Long-longlisted in the Brick Lane Short Story Prize)
Crumble (pamphlet shortlisted for publication by Bad Betty Press)
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Performances and Readings
Almost Like Falling in Love (Somerset House Studios, 2024)
Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition Prize Ceremony (Manchester Cathedral, 2024)
Winchester Poetry Festival Awards Ceremony (Winchester Poetry Festival, 2023)
Yer Bard (Dash the Henge, 2023)
Young Changemakers: The Lift Off (The Barbican Centre, 2023)
Barbican Young Poets Showcase (The Barbican Centre, 2023)
.Net, rehearsed reading at Engine Room (Omnibus Theatre, 2023)
Young Barbican Night: Rebel Rebel (The Barbican Centre, 2022)
Poems For Pete Davidson Book Launch (Doña, 2022)
Barbican Young Poets Showcase (The Barbican Centre, 2022)
Re: Repair Exhibition (The Barbican Centre, 2022)
Old Vic Theatre Makers Showcase (The Old Vic, 2021)
SMEOP (Urban) Launch (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021)
Winchester Poetry Festival Awards Ceremony (Winchester Poetry Festival, 2021)
The People’s Poetry Podcasts (Series 7, Episode 3, 2021)
The Big Albany Poetry Picnic (The Albany/Deptford Lounge, 2021)
BoxedIn (Instagram Live, 2020)
BBC Words First: Digital Showcase (Apples and Snakes’s YouTube, 2020)
The Writing Room Showcase (Freeword Centre, 2020)
UEA MA Showcase (University of East Anglia, 2019)
UEA Live (The National Centre for Writing, 2019)
The Social (BBC Radio Norfolk, 2019)
Takeover Festival (Rich Mix, 2018)
Jawdance (Rich Mix, 2018)
Talking Doorsteps (The Roundhouse, 2017)
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Education
Barbican Young Poets 21/22
Old Vic Theatre Maker 21/22
BBC Words First 2020
The Writing Room 2019
MA Creative Writing Poetry - Distinction (University of East Anglia, 2019)
BA English - 1st Class (Queen Mary University of London, 2018)
GDPR Training (The DPO Centre, June 2021)
Video Editing (Arts Council England, December 2020)
Make Your Content Accessible (Cusp Inc. June 2020)
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coaching (Sarah Pickthall, May 2020)
MA Creative Writing Poetry - Distinction (University of East Anglia, 2019)
Silver Arts Award (Rich Mix, July 2018)
Creative Facilitation (The Roundhouse, June 2017)
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Press
Interviewed for the ‘A Poet’s Work’ newsletter
‘Cin, Cassidy and Mortimer shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize’ (The Bookseller)
Interview: ‘Being a Young Creative’ (Nothing Conrete, The Barbican Centre)
‘Flipped eye joins forces with The Barbican for young poets anthology’ (The Bookseller)