BIOGRAPHY

Novels

  • Third novel in progress

  • ‘If Only You Knew’ published by Simon and Schuster in November 2006

  • ‘What the Eye Doesn’t See’ published by Simon and Schuster in May 2002

Plays

  • Writing a monologue to be used by the Cheltenham Everyman as part of Writes of Spring (March 2011)

  • Currently working on a new full length play.

  • The Question of Dog – given a script-in-hand-performance at The Cheltenham Everyman as part of a week of one act plays in October 2010.

  • Commissioned by Cheltenham Everyman to write a play for The Fiesta in the Park and The Cheltenham Festival of Literature (2010) based on interviews with recent immigrants entitled ‘You People.’

  • The Bench – given a script-in-hand-performance at The Cheltenham Everyman as part of a week of one act plays in October 2009.

  • Commissioned by Cheltenham Everyman to write a play for The Fiesta in the Park and The Cheltenham Festival of Literature (2009) based on interviews with a Bangladeshi Women’s Group entitled ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?.’

  • Part of a team of writers working on Coronation, performed at the Cheltenham Everyman in July 2009.

  • ‘A Day Out in Eastbourne’ winner of the ATC playwriting competition in 2007.

Competitions

  • Second place in the Frome Literary Festival Short Story Competition 2005
  • Winner of the Margate Open Poetry Competition in 2003
  • Short listed in the International Section of the Real Writers’ Short Story Competition 2001
  • Short listed for the Ian St. James Award in 1998

Short Stories

  • ‘The Stop’ published in The Yellow Room 2009

  • ‘A Fair Exchange’ published in The Bulletin May 2006

  • ‘A Fair Exchange’ published in the New Writer in May 2002

  • ‘A Day Out in Eastbourne’ Cinnamon Press Anthology

Radio

  • ‘Off The Page’ with Matthew Parris in August 2002
  • Short story broadcast on Radio Somerset in February 2002

Literary Festivals

  • Reading at Cheltenham Festival of Literature – Oct 2010.

  • Reading at the Hay Fringe Festival – May 2006

  • Speaker at Words By The Water in Keswick - March 2006

  • Teaching at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature – Autumn 2005

Poetry

  • Winner of the Margate Open Poetry Competition in 2003

  • ‘Beyond’ published in the New Writer in April 2001

Articles

  • The Reader
  • The Guardian
  • The Mail on Sunday
  • The BCT Magazine
  • The Bulletin
  • The New Writer

Teaching

  • Associate Lecturer for the Oxford University teaching a first degree level course in Creative Writing

  • Guest reader for Arvon July 2011

  • Teaching for Arvon in August 2010

  • Teaching for Skyros in April 2010

  • Teaching for Oxford University Master of Studies in Creative Writing from summer 2008

  • Teaching for the London Regional Arts Club

  • Teaching for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature

  • Teaching at Brussels Writers’ Workshop

  • OU / Waterstones creative writing workshops in Waterstones, Brussels

Schools

  • European School, Brussels
  • BSB Brussels – Book Week autumn 2008

Readings and talks

  • VUB (Flemish University Brussels)
  • Nicola’s Bookshop, Brussels
  • Arthur’s Café, Brussels
  • Malvern Writers’ Circle dinner
  • Speaker at FARB in Brussels.
  • Women’s Writers’ Network – London 2006
  • Blackwell’s Oxford – autumn 2008