Non-fiction Publications

In addition to the posts on this blog, I have also published the following short stories and non-fiction texts in magazines and journals.

Flash Fiction / Short Stories

‘Enter’ in The Ekphrastic Review (August 2025) – this hybrid prose/poem text has now been nominated for the Best Microfiction Award!

‘In Queen Street’ was published in season 2, vol 3 of Mugwort Magazine (September 2025)

‘The Appointed Story’ was published in season 2, vol 2 of Mugwort Magazine (August 2025)

Non-Fiction

I have a chapter in Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence and Ableism in Creative Writing published by Bloomsbury Academic (April, 2026).

A short reflective piece, ‘Sanctuary’, appeared in Modron Magazine (May, 2025).

‘Poetry as Network’ is a reflection on my PhD research, with accompanying poems, in Poetry Wales (60.2 Winter 2024).

‘Floating Between Two Tides: Poetry as Art, Poetry as Lived Experience’ examines ‘a tension that pulls at the heart of my work, between the desire to communicate and represent, and the desire to evoke and engage’, published in Cwlwm issue 1 (February 2024).

‘Metamorphosis: A Creative / Critical Response to Strangeland by Tracey Emin’ is a 10 minute long audio piece. It combines fragments of poetry with reflections on Emin’s autobiography, and was commissioned for Episode 8 of the Looking at Femininity Sympodcast in May 2021.

I wrote ‘Art and Words: A Collective Interpretation’ for Wales Arts Review (September 2021) to celebrate an interactive online poetry exhibition, which I organised as part of my PhD research.

A short reflective piece about what prompted me to start this blog was published in the ‘Blogability’ section of Mslexia issue 88 (December 2020).

‘A Virtual Residency at the Cynon Valley Museum’ in Wales Arts Review (August 2020) reflects on my experience of writing poems in response to their online exhibitions.

‘Edward Thomas 100: An Anglo-Welsh Poetic Legacy’, was published in Click on Wales (2017) to mark the centenary of Edward Thomas.

I wrote ‘A Cardiff Story: A Migrant City’, for The Guardian Cardiff blog (2010) soon after I began work at The Cardiff Story Museum.

Reviews of Books and Literary Events

Review: ‘The Poetics of Poetry Film’ by Sarah Tremlett, Writing in Education (issue 85, 2021)

‘Magic’, Hay Festival International Writers Blog (November 2019)

Review: ‘A Taste of Wales at Hay’ , Click on Wales (May 2018)

‘A Review of Sophie McKeand’s Poetry Collection – Rebel Sun’, the Welsh Agenda (2017)

Review: ‘The Book of Tides by Angela Readman’, The Poetry School (2017)

Review: ‘Beyond the Border Festival’, Wales Arts Review (2016)

‘Live: Cardiff Book Festival’, Wales Arts Review (2016)

‘The Cardiff Book Festival’ & ‘Cardiff Book Festival Launch’, New Welsh Review blog (2016)

‘Inside Stories: Quentin Blake at the National Museum’, Click on Wales (2016)