SHORT STORIES

The Last Man on Earth — Short story about three women and one man cycling a remote farm track in New Zealand. Featured on Arts Council website Pulp as part of a themed edition on “wide open spaces.”

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How the Tiger Got Its Stripes, a short story blending Vietnamese fable and modern day California, won the Editor's Choice Award in the 2009 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and was nominated for the Million Writers Award for the best online story of 2009.

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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.

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Naked was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Ever After, a short story following two teenagers breaking into a seemingly empty house, features in online literary magazine 3AM. “The house watched them like a hollow skull. Whitewashed walls, a black front door for the mouth and buckled window panes as eyes.” Read more on the 3AM website...

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Jerusalem, a short story following a couple's trip to the Holy Lands, follows previous contributors such as TS Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and William Wordsworth into the December 2009/January 2010 issue of The London Magazine.