The Madrid Review • 28th May 2025

The Madrid Review

This young magazine is already making big waves, having featured the likes of Simon Armitage, Colm Tóibín, María Dueñas and Tom Cox I’m honoured (and a little astounded) to have my first column on the craft of writing included within the pages. In this edition, we talk about ‘The Drop’. Starting strong and in scene.

Pure Slush • 26th May 2023

Baba Ghanoush

A piece of flash fiction I wrote about food and the feeling of home, has been included as part of a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the Lifespan, running from 2021 through to 2024 and produced by the publishers Pure Slush. My story appears in the 'Home' edition.

The Lovers Literary Journal • 24th April 2023

Silvia

An essay I wrote about heartbreak - specifically, that heartbreak has a very particular role to play in our collective experience. It is simultaneously something very communal (in that more or less everyone goes through it; it is even considered a rite of passage), but also intensely private and individual - has been published in the latest edition of The Lovers Literary Journal.

NO PARTIES • 28th March 2023

Tile Hill

A personal essay I wrote about my aunt's suicide - put in a wider context of journeying and the blurred lines between our internal and external worlds - has been published in the latest issue of No Parties, an issue which looks at grief and loss.

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure • 17th December 2021

The Marshalls

A personal essay I wrote about my parents and their motorcycling adventures was published in the April edition of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine.

Prairie Schooner • 18th November 2021

Casio, 1984

The 2021 fall edition of Prairie Schooner features one of my creative nonfiction pieces. It's about Casio watches, and love.

Transnational Literature • 18th April 2021

I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

The latest edition of Transnational Literature will include my review of the novel 'I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me' by Juan Pablo Villalobos.

Babab • 16th April 2021

La extraña pareja

I originally wrote in this piece of flash fiction in English and later translated it for Babab magazine, Madrid.

Transnational Literature • 2nd December 2020

Chanez

Chanez traces her life through the many countries and languages she has lived in, and latterly her journey to becoming a parent.

SWAMP • 10th June 2020

Teruel

This is an essay about place, about Spain and its many contrasts, both beautiful and perturbing.

The Rational Creature • 22nd December 2019

Miniature Precision Components

Volume 6 of The Rational Creature explores themes of lust, sharing work from contributors originating from five countries. My own contribution explores desire through the lense of the body only, particuarly our teeth.

Wordsmith HQ • 13th June 2019

Departures

No longer in existence, The Purple Breakfast Review bought together poetry and prose interwoven with artwork around a core theme. My own contribution was themed around departures, both physical and emotional.

The Selkie • 18th February 2019

The Worst View in the World

This essay is a travelogue, taking in Palestine's West Bank, Banksy and looking at the idea of art as protest.

Aesthetica • 8th December 2018

The History of Beauty and Ugliness

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual is an international showcase of new poetry and short fiction that pushes the boundaries of the imagination. My story, selected for the 2019 edition, looked at the concepts of beauty and ugliness, and in particular the role that our dentition has to play.

Encounters with Books • 16th November 2018

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros

In 2018 I took part in the Artists' Book Conference, IMPACT, in Santander, Spain, again collaborating with the University of the West of England. As part of the conference we created this book on the topic of reading. I translated the same book into Spanish.

World Book Night United Artists • 23rd April 2018

Their Eyes Were Watching God

In 2018, the World Book Night United Artists issued an invitation to read and respond to the short story ‘Watching God’ by China Miéville. There were many ways in which readers could respond to the text, through word or image, bookbinding, or even raft building. Artists sent in contributions from Germany, Sweden, the UK and USA and my own, from Spain.

Verity La • 29th September 2017

Like Light

My first publication outside of the UK, this early story was the beginning of my interest in desire and mind/body separation.

Platform for Prose • 8th September 2017

The Odd Couple

This piece of flash fiction was inspired by an unlikely friendship that I formed shortly after emigrating to Madrid.

Storgy • 28th July 2017

Office Fantasies And Their Consequences: A Short Personal History

This publication, no longer in existence, traced (as the title suggests) a short personal history of office crushes.

Litro Magazine • 4th December 2016

Travelogue: Amsterdam and Utrecht

One of my early essays, inspired by my emigration from the UK to Spain and subsequent exploration of the idea of home.