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November 2025: Reading with other poets at Church Stretton Library to launch Offa's Press 'Seeing the Trees and the Woods'.
November 2025: Two Poems published in Offa's Press anthology 'Seeing the Trees and the Woods'.
November 2025: Reading at Virtual Voices on Saturday 22nd November at 5pm.
November 2025: My microfiction story 'Spread Your Wings' nominated for 'Best Microfictions 2026' by the Mackinaw.
September 2025: 'Alf Ender' slot reading poetry at The Great Western, Wolverhampton, 7th September, 7.30pm.
July 2025: Two poems published in Hobo Camp Review's special David Lynch edition.
June 2025: Eight of my prose poems published by The Mackinaw Journal of Prose Poetry
June 2025: Headlining at 'Country Voices' alongside Barbara Chapman and Fraser Scott, Saturday 21st June, 2.30pm.
June 2025: My microfiction story 'Northern Souls' published in Flash Flood as part of National Flash Fiction Day 2025.
June 2025: Poetry Reading 'Black Country Women' reading alongside Emma Purshouse, Marion Cockin and Jane Seabourne, at Waterstones, Wolverhampton, Sunday 15th June, 2pm.
May 2025: Reading at 'City Voices' Wolverhampton, 13th May 7.30pm.
April 2025: Headlining at the Caffe Grande Slam, 24th April, 7pm, Dudley. Reading poetry from 'The Bridge'.
April 2025: Poetry reading 'Three Shropshire Poets' at Church Stretton Library' Thursday 17thApril 12 noon.
March 2025: John Benyon writes a lovely review of my poetry pamphlet in 'The Cannon's Mouth'
March 2025: My microfiction story 'Uncle Rodney The Hyena' selected for publication in the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 'Monsoon'
February 2025: Reading my short prose at 'The Prose Garden', hosted by Francine Witte and Meg Pokrass, live on Zoom, 7pm UK time 17th February.
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​November 23rd 2024: Reading from 'The Bridge', 1.30 - 3.00 pm, Riverside House, Canal Street, Stourbridge. Free event but tickets available via Eventbrite
​​November 16th 2024: Reading from 'The Bridge' at 'Country Voices', The
Water Rat, Ironbridge 2.30-4pm
​​October 26th 2024: Reading from 'The Bridge' at 'Virtual Voices' 5-6pm via Zoom
​October 8th 2024: launch of my new poetry pamphlet 'The Bridge' (Offa's Press) at 'City Voices' at the Lychgate pub, Wolverhampton, 7.30 - 9pm.
February 2025: My microfiction story 'Rat Race' published in Issue Three of 'Neither Fish Nor Foul'.
September 2024 'Ode Magic' published in Bilston Writers 2024 Anthology 'Bilston Banquet - A Feast of Words'.
August 2024 finalist in The Ekphrastic Review's 'Tickled Pink' contest, with my microfiction story 'Paint It Black'
15th April 2024 My first collaborative flash fiction story written with Christine H Chen and Jessica Klimish, published in Atticus Review. The story is called 'Emerge'. Click on link to read.
December 2023 Runner-Up in the November 2023 online Flash Fiction Festival competition with my story 'Sunday Morning at the Hyperreal Gardeners' World'.
15th September 2023 Featured Author/Artist in MacQueen's Quinterly (Issue 20) with a selection of my poems, microfiction and collage artwork.
23rd July 2023 Nominated for 'Best of the Net' by the Ekphrastic Review, with my story 'Mother Mushroom and the Sextuplets'.
22nd July 2023 Reading microfiction stories and poems from 'The Quiet Spy' at Offa's Press Virtual Voices. Free Zoom event at 5pm. Zoom link on Offa's Press website.
30th April 2023 Two microfiction stories published with MacQueen's Quinterly. Read 'Keep the Wolf from the Door' and 'Wild Child' by clicking the links.
15th April 2023 Reading from 'The Quiet Spy' at 'Country Voices', the Water Rat, Telford
2nd April 2023 Launch of 'Those Left Behind' - an anthology of poems and prose on the theme of grief and loss from 'Stourbridge Stories'. Available to buy on Amazon.
23rd March 2023 Awarded Arts Council England DYCP funding (round 16) to develop my Flash Fiction writing
18th March 2023 Launch of Ad Hoc Fiction Anthologies 'Dandelion Years' and 'Flash Fiction Five', St James Wine Vaults, Bath. Reading my microfiction story'Saturday Afternoon at Silver Blades'.
9th February 2023 Runner up in the January Flash Fiction festival competition with my microfiction story 'Letter to Betty'.
8th February 2023 'Aspire' talk and readings from flash fiction and poetry on 'Evolving Genres' to students at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
5th February 2023 Wolverhampton Literature Festival: read as part of 'The Bilston Writers' group
29th January 'Takotsubo Syndrome' published by 'MacQueen's Quinterly'
22nd January 2023 read poetry and microfiction at Poetry Reading in memory of Rebecca McManus at Thimblemill Library, Smethwick
13th January 2023 'Mother Mushroom and the Sextuplets' published by 'The Ekphrastic Review'
Tuesday 13th December, 7.30 - 9pm. Reading from 'The Quiet Spy' at Offa's Press, 'City Voices', the Lych Gate, Wolverhampton.
Saturday 3rd December 2022, 11am 'The Quiet Spy' - poetry reading and talk, Stourbridge Library. Email or phone library to reserve a seat
Phone: 01384 812 945; e-mail: stourbridge.library@gll.org
23rd October 2022. Bath Flash Fiction Shortlist for my story 'Saturday afternoon at Silverblades'. The story will be published in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, later in the year.
16th October 2022. MacQueen's Quinterly nomination for Best Microfiction 2023, for my story 'The Weightlessness of Love'.
Tuesday 4th October 2022, 7.30pm. Free Zoom poetry reading from 'The Quiet Spy. Brum Poetry Stanza. For joining details contact Lorraine Dixon: l.dixon65@btinternet.com.
Friday 30th September 2022. Guest on Black Country Radio breakfast show chatting about Frank Foley and reading from 'The Quiet Spy'. Click on the link above and listen from 2.08 onwards.
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Sunday 25th September 2022. Brum Radio Poets. Poetry reading and
poetry chat with Charis McRoberts and Rick Sanders. Click here to listen to the show.
24th September 2022. Microfiction story 'Tom's Ninth Life' published with MacQueen's Quinterly. Click here to read the story.
3rd September 2022. In-person launch of 'The Quiet Spy' at the Quaker Meeting House, Stourbridge.
July 2022. Winner of the Pokrass Prize for Flash Fiction, at the Flash Fiction Festival. Click here to read the winning microfiction story 'Miracle Grow'.
28th June 2022. Pindrop Press Zoom launch of Jane Salmons' 'The Quiet Spy' and Lydia Harris' 'Objects for Private Devotion'.
'The Quiet Spy' poetry reading at the Quaker Meeting House, Stourbridge, 3rd September 2022