The Sweet Track – Flambard Press 2007
From Writing With Love 2013 (A book on writing)
Sometimes A River Song – Linen Press 2016 – longlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, Winner of the People’s Book Prize – 2017 – Best Achievement – for outstanding work
SHORT STORIES
Millie and Bird – Winner of the 2012 Costa Short Story award – publised in The Story, Love, Loss and the Lives of Women – 100 short stories chosen by Victoria Hislop – pub head of Zeus Aug 2013
Millie and Bird, Tales of Paradise – Iron Press 2015 – Historical Writers Association longlist 2018
Crane – – Words and Women – shortlist 2018 – forthcoming 2019 Structo Press Anthology
White Feather Girl – Historical Writers Association – shortlist ) 2017
How the River Breaks Your Heart –published For Books sake – Weekend Reads 2016, longlisted for The Raymond Carver Short Story prize – 2015
Small Town Looks – shortlisted for the Bridport prize 2014
Eating Words – shortlisted for the Manchester Prize for Fiction 2014
Tokyo Dreaming – Structo Lit Magazine Issue 8, 2012
What is there to Cry About Today? – Fine Line Short Story Comp 2011 – shortlisted and published in the anthology Even Birds Are Chained to the Sky
Meat – shortlisted Bristol Prize 2012 -and published in the Bristol Prize anthology
Tough Love – shortlisted Doire Press International Chapbook Comp 2012 published 2013 – Roots anthology – Iron Press.
Dancing With Mr Benn – finalist in Granta Garden Memoir Writing Competition 2013
Hunting the Jaguar – The London Magazine, Oct/Nov – 2013
POETRY
Going In With Flowers – collection, published by Linen Press 2019
Skomm – first prize in York Poetry Comp 2019
Doing Money – commended in York Poetry Comp 2019
Vitebsk Spring – shortlisted, Anam Cara Writers Retreat 2012
September After Rain – second prize, Inpress Indian Summer Comp 2012
Migration – Ink Sweat and Tears, 2012
Poems have been published in Snakeskin, Ink Sweat and Tears, Atrium, Strix, Brittle Star, Dreamcatcher, Algebra of Owls.
Thank you so much Sally. I’ve just arrived back in the North East but will be posting on the blog soon.I’m really touched that you cared about the people in my story. A short story can definitely become a novel or as in my case I’ve written some other stories linked to the characters in Millie and Bird – so I hope these stories might appear someday.
Thanks Steve!
Many thanks Mitchell.
Thanks Philip – there is a link to my story on my last but one blog post it’s this — http://www.costabookawards.com/short-stories/shortlist.aspx
My story is Millie and Bird.
Good luck with your writing – Avril
Hi Nick – you can read it here https://www.yorkmix.com/york-literature-festival-yorkmix-poetry-competition-2019-meet-the-winners/ Please ignore horrible picture of me!
or in my collection Going in With Flowers – Linen Press Avril