I am the author of nine books: a hybrid novel, three short story collections, two poetry collections, two poetry pamphlets and a hybrid book inspired by particle physics. I am the editor of FUEL: 75 Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). I am also co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers and Artists Companion, and On This Day She, and co-editor of I Am Because You Are. You can buy signed copies of some of my books direct from me here.
New books
Published on 15th Feb 2023, FUEL is an anthology of 75 prize-winning flash fictions by authors around the globe raising funds to fight fuel poverty. Find out more and order here.
2022
I had two new books published last year: my second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, published by Nine Arches Press, and my debut novel, Go On, a hybrid “fictional-memoir-in-collage”, by Broken Sleep Books. You can buy signed copies of each individually from me, and a discount bundle of both books – while stocks last!
2021
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History One Day At A Time by Jo Bell, Tania Hershman and Ailsa Holland. (Bonnier, 2021). Visit onthisdayshe.com for more details!
2020
SOLD OUT. My particle-physics-inspired hybrid book, ‘and what if we were all allowed to disappear’ (ISBN 1916060560) was published as a limited edition in March 2020 by the amazing Guillemot Press. Inspired by particle physics, it asks: ‘What does it mean to be in pieces? What might it mean to be whole?’
2019
How High Did She Fly? was joint winner of the 2019 Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet Competition (Live Canon, 2019) (ISBN 1909703826, Nov 2019). Find out more and read 2 of the poems.
2017
My debut poetry collection, Terms and Conditions (ISBN 1911027220), is now available from Nine Arches Press (July 2017). It is available as an ebook here. You can also order it from Waterstones, Foyles, the Book Depository, Wordery or The Hive or ask your favourite independent bookshop to get you a copy! Click here for more information about the book, links to poems and reviews.
My third short story collection, Some Of Us Glow More Than Others, was published by Unthank Books in 2017. Click here for more details about the book, including links to some of the stories and reviews.
poetry
Nothing Here Is Wild, Everything Is Open (Southword Editions, 2016 – 2nd prize winner, Fool For Poetry chapbook contest) My debut poetry chapbook contains 20 poems.
short stories
My Mother Was An Upright Piano (tangent books, 2012) A collection of 56 of my very short fictions – Find out more about the book
The White Road and Other Stories (salt modern fiction, 2008) Commended, Orange Award for New Writers, 2009. A collection of short stories and very short stories, many inspired by science. Audiobook available from Audible and Amazon – click here to hear me reading a sample story, my flash story, Plaits. Find out more about The White Road and Other Stories – excerpts, reviews, interviews and the virtual book tour >>
I’ve made my very first audiobook! Produced by the excellent SoundByte Recording, you can listen to me reading stories from my first collection, The White Road & Other Stories (Salt Modern Fiction, 2008). Available from Audible and Amazon – click here to hear me reading a sample story, my flash story, Plaits.