Prizes & Publications
‘The Wordsmith’ won the BBC Young Writers’ Award in 2023. It was announced at a ceremony held in the BBC Radio Theatre, broadcast live on Radio 4, Front Row. The story was published in an anthology and made into an audio recording read by actor and singer Luke Treadaway.
‘The Ending Library’ was a finalist in the Lewis Carrol Society Writing Competition in October 2021. The theme was to write a missing chapter for Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass. The story will be published in a collection of missing chapters.
‘Satan & Pan’ won first place in the 12-15 age bracket of the Chagword Short Story Competition in March 2019. The theme was Extraordinary Meetings.
‘A Memoir in Ice’ won the BIG category of the little BIG Book Competition in April 2020. The story was published in the Daydreamers anthology, available to buy here
‘Unforgetting’ was published in a collection of poetry and photography celebrating the Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest lending library. Copies are available here.
‘We Wolves’ won first place in the Young Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2020. The story was published in an anthology, with an awards ceremony held at the Borders Book Festival in Scotland.
‘A Hundred Histories’ was highly commended for the Young Walter Scott Prize in 2021.
‘White Fox’ was a runner-up in the Young Walter Scott Prize in 2022.
‘Ashes to Ashes’ won first place in the Hastings Priory Cricket Writing Competition in May 2020.
"... a winning story, capturing the heart of English cricket."
‘Lunatic’s Wood’ was published by the Anansi Archive in their 2022 anthology Show Me Where It Hurts. Copies are available here.
‘The Star Minister’ won Chagford Library’s Space Chase writing competition in September 2019. It tied with ‘An Adventure in Space’ by Martha Slade. The competition was judged by renowned Tolkien-illustrator Alan Lee.