Publications
I began submitting work for publication in January 2007, and had my first acceptance in June: 'Purrgatory (sic)', a cat story, accepted by the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. It went into issue 36, pictured here.
It's absolutely typical of my work insofar as it's written in the first person, strongly narrative and has a fantasy element. Although they are all optional variables, that's typical me.
Later that month the vampire story 'What I Did on my Holidays' was accepted by the e-zine 'Midnight Times', appearing in the Spring 2008 edition.. Before you castigate me for spelling and syntax, please bear in mind that it's narrated by a small child!
On New Year's Day 2008 I heard that my poem 'Ambition' was going in the anthology 'Poems for Big Kids' pictured here. My first published poem, and my first book! It's a lovely tome, and can be found as a free PDF or to buy in printed form.
'The Ugly Tree', a Manchester-based poetry magazine, accepted my poem 'Animal-abuse-based Proverbs and Sayings, De-animalised and Made Veganically Correct, with Apologies for the Fact that I'm No Good at Snappy Titles' in November 2008. Sadly it was their last issue - magazines folded (no pun intended) everywhere as the credit crunch hit. I was very proud to be in it, though. Read about where you can buy the final issue.
January 2009 brought two poetry acceptances by Velvet magazine, though only one has made it into print so far: 'The Peach', in the edition pictured here. I believe that the issue with my work, Issue 19, has sold out.
It's great to be in 'Unsung' magazine in August 2009, a dynamic mag dedicated to Manchester's 'unsung' poetic heroes. It's one of the most energetic and unusual publications around, and I'm very pleased to have my poem 'Confession' in Issue #3. There's a fine illustration too - in fact there are loads of little drawings, doodles and interesting fonts all through the magazine.
Velvet magazine have printed another poem of mine in their September 2009 issue: Her Light Touch in Darkness. I'm especially pleased as it's next to a poem by a friend and poet I admire enormously, Mary Brett - we used to pipe-dream of being published together! I never thought it would happen so soon.
The first publication of 2010 came in January from the wonderful Women Writers e-zine, who printed no fewer than three of my poems: 'Attention!' , 'After Hearing a Mainstream Politician Speak' and 'On the Commune', with a lovely photo and mini-bio! I really enjoyed seeing my political/feminist side in print in this fantastic 'zine.