writing

awards & prizes

Shortlisted, Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize 2024

Special Mention, Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, 2024

Recipient of Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant, December 2022

Commended: Laura Kinsella Fellowship – Early Career Awards, National Centre for Writing, 2022

I Have Been Through Nothing (current novel-in-progress), Shortlisted for The Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, 2021

Scholarship recipient: Writing a Novel, Faber Academy, 2021-22

Scholarship recipient: Writing Fiction: Next Steps, National Centre for Writing/University of East Anglia, 2021

Andy Warhol at Tate Modern, Shortlisted for The Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism, 2021


fiction/non-fiction

Chiak Kantang, Singapore Unbound

Furniture, 3:AM Magazine

Careful, Channel Magazine

I’m Sorry, But, HOAX

And I Was Never Here Anyway So, Ambit Magazine

The Peephole, Litro

Dreamland, The Liminal Review

Purchase, The Margate Mercury

What Are You?, Talk Vomit

Some Fragments, The Babel Tower Noticeboard

A Grand Vision, Talk Vomit

The Thing Behind, The Honest Ulsterman

That Old Dark, Illiterati Texts

Medusa Goes to Morrisons, Litro

Chiak Lang (Eating People), Voices Volume 2, Untitled Writing

Tents in the Car Park: A Covid-19 Despatch, Unofficial Britain

Reunion is Not Always Photogenic – On Tang Yuan, Potluck Zine Issue 2

Nothing With Nothing, Unofficial Britain

The Block, The Liminal Residency

Rice, Entropy Magazine

That Abattoir, The Georgetown Literary Festival


criticism

Andy Warhol at Tate Modern, Shortlisted for The Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism, 2021


journalism

Left in Limbo, Penang Monthly, July 2024

What Lies Beneath, The Margate Mercury, Spring 2023

Diversity x Creativity: Black History Month in Margate, The Margate Mercury, Autumn 2022

Margate Pride Art Trail / Free Kids’ Sport, The Margate Mercury, Summer 2022

Margate Town Council / Try Something New, The Margate Mercury, Spring 2022

How to Survive a Margate Winter, The Margate Mercury, Winter 2021

How I Live, The Margate Mercury, Winter 2021

From Margate to Malawi, The Margate Mercury, Autumn 2021

What’s Next For Margate’s Renters?, The Margate Mercury, Summer 2021

Save Their Future: On Youth Unemployment, The Margate Mercury, Spring 2021

Rescue Renovation, The Ramsgate Recorder Spring 2021

A Place to Heal, The Margate Mercury Winter 2020

A Place of Play, The Ramsgate Recorder Autumn 2020