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Poems

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   Homers   1st prize, ​Abergavenny Eisteddfod poetry competition, June 2011. 

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   Not to mention Vivaldi  Published in "Seasons", the Rhyme and Reason Desk Diary 2013.

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   Humoresque and Diminuendo – winners in, respectively, the July and the August Fish Micro-Fiction Competition

      2007.  Published in the 2008 Fish Anthology, Harlem River Blues (ISBN 978-0-9542586-7-2).

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   Games To Be Played When Nobody Comes To Your Party and What am I? – winners in the June Fish Micro-Fiction Competition 2008.  Published in the 2009 Fish Anthology. (ISBN 978-0-9562721-0-2).  An earlier version of What Am I ?, written for the 5th birthday competition of BBC Radio Three’s ‘The Verb’, was chosen and read by Ian Macmillan on the programme, 6/4/07.

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   Kneeology – winner of the Percy French Award for Comic Verse after being performed in the final at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Ireland, 2017.

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Short Stories

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   Road Block   4th in the Matthew Prichard Award 2004.  Published in Carousel magazine (SAMWAW),

     Summer 2004.

     

   Letting Go   1st in the Dillons Bookstore/World Wide Writers Short-Story Competition at the 1999 AWC.   Published in The Best of '99  (ISBN 0 95344466 11), and in World Wide Writers magazine (Vol 2. No 9, 1999; ISSN 1467-2529).

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   Other published short stories:

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   Mercury Rising  winner of a 2002 Canongate Prize for New Writing.  Published November 2002 by Canongate in the anthology Writing Wrongs  (ISBN 1 84195 292 3)  (in association with Amnesty International, Channel 4, Waterstones, the Herald and Sunday Herald).

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   La Vallée Blanche  – a haibun – 1st in a competition sponsored by the British Haiku Society, June 2007.  Published in the Winchester Writers’ Conference anthology, The Best of 2007 (ISBN 095344664 X).

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    Getting On  1st in the Dillons Bookstore Short-Story Competition at the 17th Annual Writers' Conference in Winchester in 1997, and published in the conference anthology The Best of '97.

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