AWARDS

Winner of the inaugural £5,000 New Writing Ventures award for fiction, with Zen in 2005. The competition was covered by Guardian Online.

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The Tokyo Catfish, a love story set in the aftermath of a Tokyo earthquake, was a prizewinner in the 2005 London Writers contest.

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Following two stowaway children, from the tarmac of Mombassa airport to the 2012 London Olympics, Paradise was runner up in the 2007 Willsden Herald Short Story competition, adjudicated by Zadie Smith. An anthology of the winning stories, Willsden Herald: New Short Stories 1, is available from Amazon.co.uk.