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“The bats have got it right – the Earth is singing all the time, and we just need to learn to listen to find the right way through …” My short piece ‘Frequencies At Dusk’, all about bats, humans and the need for all of us to tune into the natural world, is out today...

I’m so thrilled that my dystopian piece ‘Salt Water’ has won the Feminist Futures Award, part of the Omega Sci-Fi Awards / Roswell Awards (USA). The Feminist Futures Award recognizes “excellence in feminist storytelling that captures the complexities and other aspects...

I was buying Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals In That Country (Scribe) on the back of it having won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and after I’d read a fantastic interview with the author by Alex Lockwood for XR Writers. But when I took it to the counter at Waterstone’s,...

“A trapped pigeon ripped a small opening into the real world, and just for a moment some humans peered through the gap and saw a glint of truth, left there on the ground like a feather in a car park puddle, dropped from a rock dove’s wing …” My non-fiction piece...

My non-fiction piece ‘Crossings’, a labour of love featuring the toads of Smallwood, Cheshire and their incredible Spring migrations, was short-listed for two major awards, namely the inaugural Future Places Prize for Environmental Literature (UK) and the Van der Mey...

In August 2021 my essay ‘The Year of the Acorns’, dealing with the experience of defending badgers during the government cull, was published by Dark Mountain as part of their Other Kingdoms series. “A fern frond, five feet tall, brushes my cheek and I experience it as...

My essay ‘Crossings’, based on the Spring migrations of the common toad bufo bufo, was well received this winter, being short-listed in both the Future Places Environmental Essay Prize (UK) and the Van der Mey Prize for Non-Fiction (USA). I was especially pleased that...

Publication 16th August: ‘Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves’ 16th August sees the publication of a lovely book I’ve been involved with – ‘Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves’ (Jewish Food Hero). This international project sets out to honour 69...

Highly Commended in the Shepton Mallet International Open Poetry Competition judged by Mama Amazonica author Pascale Petit (February 2022), my poem ‘Toads During Lockdown’ is available to read here in the competition’s digital anthology.

In February my poem ‘Toads During Lockdown’ was Highly Commended in the Shepton Mallet Snowdrops Festival International Poetry Competition, whose given theme was “hope in nature” and where the judge was Mama Amazonica poet Pascale Petit. It was lovely to be able to...