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I Have Been Through Nothing (current novel-in-progress), Shortlisted for The Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, 2021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