2024 Awards Eligibility

Here is a list of my works published in 2024. Please reach out to me (details in the footer of this page) if you have any queries.

Thank you for your kind consideration! 

Novelette category

The Perpetual Metamorphosis of Primrose Close — ParSec #11, PS Publishing
solarpunk, climate fiction, urban design, diversity, neighbourhood

What happens to a neighbourhood street when there's no longer a need for cars? Evading potential trouble with their city council, Celeste and the eclectic residents of a London street, Primrose Close, got together to figure out what they could do with all this new-found space; it wasn't going to easy. more » 

From The Supernova Short Fiction Review: "[...] we see people working together for the common good, arguing and then making positive decisions, welcoming strangers, thinking the best of said strangers, and generally being kind to one another. It is genuinely lovely." 

Short Story category

Night Fowls — Solarpunk Creatures (anthology), World Weaver Press 
solarpunk, climate fiction, birds, decentering humans, alternative government

In the seaside town of Brighton in Southern England, Willow, an expert in poisonous plants, had been randomly selected for a cross-species portfolio she felt woefully inadequate for: moderating the long-standing, explosive dispute between two bands of warring birds: the Mockers and the Daws. more »

Anatomy of Emotion – The Carving of Chance – Seize the Moon— The Utopia of Us (anthology), Luna Press
solarpunk, indigenous culture (British Isles), queer romance, We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

Beyond the Green Wall, the descendents of the people D-503 encountered several hundred years ago had reclaimed technology from the shattered glass city while keeping to their seasonal traditions. But now, one of them began to question if they should change their ways of living. more »

A Book of Architecture and Other Music — Fathoms in the Earth (anthology), Air and Nothingness Press
cyberpunk, cyborg, war (aftermath), music, architecture, Shakespearean retelling

CLBN, a cyborg devastated by the aftermath of war waged between Prospero and Ferdinand, sings to rubble to rebuild the destroyed city he loved. more »

This God's Request is Off the Menu — Inter Librarian Loan (vol. 2), Air and Nothingness Press
fantasy, fan fiction, repositories of knowledge, solo RPG playthrough

The Librarian and a reluctant Satchel travel across the multiverse to track down a book that a god requested—Old Ron wanted something to teach him how to dream. Could they find a way to keep him from harming the world more than he already had? more »

Flash Fiction category

A Spell for Stardust — "New Mythologies in Space" (WorldCon Glasgow 2024 Special Limited Edition Newsletter), Flame Tree Press
space opera, generation ship, witchcraft, mythology

A desperate generation ship gathers ingredients for a final spell to revive its remaining crew members. more »