YA listing

Could not be more stoked to have the news that the YA novel I wrote over lockdown last year made the long-list of 12 out of over a hundred entries for the Michael Gifkins Unpublished Novel Competition. It's my second time in this position, having also had Some Things the English, the novel that placed second in the Dundee International Book Prize, in the long-list in the inaugural comp.

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.