IN PROGRESS
Narrative non-fiction book shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize 2022.
EDITORIAL
Deputy Editor Wasafiri Magazine.
Co-editor: Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature, 2024, 404 INK. Read the Foreword here.
Co-editor: 'Just So You Know: Essays of Experience' anthology, published by Parthian Books, 2020. Read: Interview With the Editors
Associate Editor: Wales Arts Review 2016-2019.
'Where I'm Coming From' 2-Year Anniversary Anthology edited by Durre Shahwar and Hanan Issa. Published 2019, by Lumin Press.
“From Now On” - commissioned by Artes Mundi to curate, edit, and mentor writers responding to the Artes Mundi 11 exhibition for publication in Artes Mundi's journal.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Autofiction and Emotional Truth, Wasafiri Magazine Writer-in-Residence, 2023.
Writing Myself Down: The Language of Autofiction, Wasafiri Magazine Writer-in-Residence, 2023
Writing About Human Entanglement With the Land, Swansea University.
‘Golden Books’ Wasafiri Magazine, Winter 2022.
‘The Language of Our Stories’ Poetry Wales, November 2022.
Floating Countries, Modron Magazine, 2022.
Gathering: Women of Colour and Nature, Azeema Mag, feature and film.
‘Rooms’ in Maps and Rooms, Lucent Dreaming, June 2022.
‘The Mechanic’ autofiction published by Planet Magazine, May 2022.
“Identity as Place: Constructing a Welsh Identity Through Nature”, Welsh (Plural), essay published by Repeater Book in March 2022.
‘Living Life to the Full’ monologue commissioned by BBC Writersroom.
‘Navigating Space’: Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class, Dead Ink Books. On navigating work, education, friendships while being working class.
'We Shall Fight Until We Win', 404 Ink, BHP Comics. I wrote about Princess Sophia Duleep Singh and Noor Inayat Khan for this graphic novel anthology to celebrate pioneering women.
Homes Heroes 100: Council Estate Memories, Bristol Festival of Ideas / Festival of Future City. Essay on growing up on council estates.
'On My Terms' short play about queer identities performed at Dirty Protest Theatre's late night scratch play extravaganza at the Roundabout at Edinburgh Fringe.
‘47, Artes Mundi. Prose poem.
“Speaking” inspired by Bouchra Khalili’s 22 hours, performed at National Museum Wales, commissioned by Artes Mundi, published in Lumin Journal.
'Do You See Where I'm Coming From?' Western Mail Weekend Magazine feature written about starting a grassroots community open mic collective.
‘Languages’: The Stockholm Review of Literature, Issue #13.
'Zero Hours on the Boulevard: Tales of Independence and Belonging', Parthian Books.
‘Used Goods’ A Room of Our Own: An Anthology of Feminist and Womanist Writing, EVB Press. Poem
‘My Mother Said’, A Room of Our Own: An Anthology of Feminist and Womanist Writing, EVB Press. Poem
"The Girl". A short literary vignette.
‘How I Wrote Nowadays’: The Lonely Crowd, Issue #7.
‘Nowadays’ The Lonely Crowd, Issue #7. Nonfiction
‘Melancholia’: Metropolitan Volume 1, Cardiff Metropolitan University Press.
‘Hiraeth’: Cheval 10 (runner up Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award), Parthian Books.
‘Here’s How It Happens’: How to Exit a Burning Building, runner up Robin Reeves Prize Young Writers.
