Taylor luck

Oh my giddy aunt, and as if getting three shortlistings and an honourable mention in the Strands Competitions and a nomination for The Best Small Fictions of 2020 isn't enough, I got a longlisting for the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize (people say send your work out then forget about it - I literally did that)! Thank you to judge Cilla McQueen!

Maybe it's because I've been working on a biography of Mary Taylor for the last few years, I think MT are lucky initials for me! Thank you Monica Taylor Poetry Prize.

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I'm chuffed to bits to be nominated for the The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2020, thanks and gratitude to takahē magazine and the lovely team there, including Zoë Meager!

I'm particularly stoked to have been nominated for this story as it's very personal and writing it posed many challenges for me. To transform a trauma into a piece of art that resonates with others and results in so much positivity is really the best outcome I could hope to achieve. I'm especially pleased that my love of nature pulled me through and made something that could have been very grim into something healing. Nothing beats pulling two fingers to trauma and rising above it.

Thanks again, takahē.