Writing Portfolio
February 2019
Altercation
Fictive Dream (Biffy 50 Nominated)
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"From its cutting edge, the shards of an onion dribble onto the worktop; sliced like rose petals; like tear drops; like acid rain."
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March 2024
Banana republic
BULL Magazine
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"This is the first time Jenny has stayed with me since I split with my wife Sandrine, and there is less compliance to Jenny’s behaviour than there was before."
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October 2024
beyond
Frazzled Lit
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"the line was before mewling gasp of baby into world, nettled straightening between oak ash beech hornbeam and concrete grey"
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Not currently available online
September 2021
Black Annis
New Flash Fiction Review (Included in Best Small Fictions 2022)
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"The woodcutter’s son cowers in a corner like a pheasant caught within a net. She was in the woods, he says. Her hair was wild, her fingers clawed around a knife."
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February 2019
Constellations
The Drabble
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"The inner cavern is a spiral galaxy of planets and stars. It pulses like a bullfrog’s throat – alive but dying."
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May 2020
End of the line
Splonk (Best of the Net and Pushcart Nominated)
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"She was a green thing. Fell for a fisherman with seaweed in his beard. They planted an acorn together."
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March 2021
Everything they are running from and a few things they are running towards
Cheap Pop (Wigleaf Top 50)
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"From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running."
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January 2024
Green to the nubbing-cheat
Gone Lawn
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"In the court, a fraudy wig of gimmered hair sits on the judge’s crown. His mudslide jowl pronounces charges."
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May 2020
How to refill an invisible balloon
Green Stories (3rd Place)
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"His mum’s red balloon has shrivelled like a sun-dried tomato and is hanging limply by her left ankle."
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May 2020
It was the horse that killed her
Retreat West (Quarterly FF Winner and Pushcart Nominated)
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"Ambulance outside Old Lady’s house. Its blue light whirligigs round."
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NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
September 2024
The lick
MoonPark Review
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"It was the first painting we looked at on our visit to the gallery. I said it was kind of beautiful. The tongue had a sensual quality. But Hadley didn’t see it."
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December 2019
Life at the colliery
FlashBack Fiction (Included on Biffy 50 2019-2020)
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"It’s dark. Darker than coal. Darker than Ma’s eyes when I came home caked in mud after football."
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February 2020
a list of things that are white
Fictive Dream (Included in Best Microfiction 2021)
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"in the chapel, the chaplain’s cassock; her teeth, enamelled gravestones that bite words in half."
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May 2024
Maybe there is
Flash Fiction Magazine
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"Monday morning. A trickle of milk across the kitchen’s terracotta tiles. Hardly anything. Certainly nothing worth crying over."
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March 2024
People present on Carnaby Street on a Saturday afternoon in early May
Fractured Lit
Previously published in November 2020 by Reflex Fiction (Long List and Best Small Fictions Nominated)
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"Four murderers, one of them with horn-rimmed glasses. "
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March 2022
The salt trick
Oxford Flash Fiction (2nd Place)
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"He was inside a game of Tetris and he was broken into shapes. His left leg was an orange L. His stomach was a yellow square."
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February 2020
Stepping out
Bending Genres
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"My second first steps are like a walrus in stilettos. Quick, slow, quick, quick, slow. Jelly legs buckling at the knees."
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October 2024
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Scrawl Place
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"Look at the girl by her side in a dress that is whiter than any vestment you have ever seen. These people are peacocks in full feather. Lifeless yet full of life."
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NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
August 2020
Surreal portraits of the future us
Craft Literary
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"In five years, on Space Mountain, we’ll blast asteroids to clear a path through the Milky Way."
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April 2024
Trevor
Emerge Literary Journal (Best of the Net Nominated)
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"Trevor arrived on a Wednesday. He sidled in while I was sleeping and next morning he was there, squatting inside me."
September 2024
Wittgenstein sits at the piano after the long cacophony of the war and contemplates past, present, future, love, loss, obsession, poise, determination, pain, denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance and everything else wrapped within the meaning of ‘can’t’
Bulb Culture Collective
Previously published in June 2021 by Reflex Fiction (2nd Place)
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"The notes sound in his head. Five of them. The first ones he played as a boy."
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December 2023
Yellow is the colour of make-believe
Ghost Parachute (Best of the Net Nominated)
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"His food was yellow food. It was oven chips and turkey twizzlers and singular sweetcorn kernels."
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Craft Essays and Interviews
The importance of feedback (Lucent Dreaming)
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The language of feedback (Lucent Dreaming)
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Time as a snowstorm: An exploration of time in ‘Wolf Cry’ by Sara Lippmann (SmokeLong Quarterly)
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A writer’s consciousness of craft (Fetish Literature)
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Writing effective flash fiction (Lucent Dreaming)
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BackStory: five questions (FlashBack Fiction)
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Galaxies as Genres: Matt Kendrick Interviewed by Shane Larkin (New Flash Fiction Review)
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Interview: Amy Cipolla Barnes, Author of Child Craft (SmokeLong Quarterly)
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Interview with Jude Higgins (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
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Matt Kendrick answers questions from Laura Cooney (Frazzled Lit)