Publications
My stories appear in the following anthologies…
Snow Crow – Bath Flash Fiction Anthology
Beguiled by a Wild thing – Reflex Press
Crossing the Tees Anthology 3 – Sixth Element Press
Mainstream – Inkandescent Publishing
A Girl’s Guide to Fly Fishing – Reflex Press
Crossing the Tees Anthology One – Sixth Element Press
Secret attic Volume one – Secret Attic.
A Personal Anthology
This was such a great project for me and I was over the moon to be invited by Jonathan Gibb to write my personal anthology of favourite short stories for his http://www.tinyletter.com blog! I thoroughly enjoyed collating my list. You can read it here.
Articles
Below you’ll find examples of articles I’ve written on my personal blog, short travelogue’s and academic guides for those who may want to study Creative Writing.
A Guide to Surviving Your Creative Writing Dissertation
An MA in Creative Writing – Is it for you?
Short Stories
My short stories have featured in several publications including the Mainstream Anthology, Northern Gravy Silver Apples literary magazine , The Secret Attic, Crossing the Tees Anthology, Retreat West Anthology and Firefly magazine. I have also had stories performed on Brum Radio’s ‘Tall Tales ‘ programme. Several of my short stories have been listed in competitions.
Read my short story ‘SCAB’ here! It’s set in 1984, during the miner’s strike, and was shortlisted for the Spread the Word Life-writing Prize.
You can read my short story ‘CURSED WITH BONNY LASSES’ here!
Competition listings
I am delighted to have had work listed in the following competitions!
November 2022 – HISSAC – Second Prize
October 2022 – Bath Flash Fiction Award – winner!
May 2022 – Free Flash Fiction – Highly Commended
March 2022 – Flash 500 – Longlist
March 2022 – Bath Novella-in-Flash Award – Longlist
February 2022 – TheEdinburgh Award for Flash Fiction – Second Prize
January 2022 – Retreat West Short Story Competition -shortlist
November 2021 – Forge Literary – Finalist
October 2021 – Bath Flash Fiction Award- Longlist
July 2021 – Reflex Fiction – Longlist
June 2021 – Bath Flash Fiction Award – Longlist
June 2021 – Tss Publishing Flash Fiction Competition – Third Prize
June 2021 – Retreat West Flash Fiction Competition – First Prize Winner
April 2021 – Crossing the Tees Short Story Award – First Prize Winner
April 2021 – Fish Publishing Flash Competition – Longlist
March 2021 – Blinkpot Awards – Special Commendation
January 2021 – Retreat West Novella-in- Flash Competition – Longlist
December 2020 – Reflex Fiction Flash Competition – Longlist
October 2020 – HISSAC Flash Fiction Competition – Third Prize
October 2020 – Reflex Fiction – shortlist
August 2020 – Flash 500 – shortlist
July 2020 – The Strands International Flash Fiction Competition – Shortlist
June 2020 – LISP – London Independent Story Prize – Semi-finalist
May 2020- Beacon Literary 500 Word Story Competition – Longlist
April 2020 Retreat West Themed Quarterly Competition – longlist
Jan 2020 Reflex Fiction Winter Flash Fiction Competition 2020 – longlist
Dec 2019 Silver Apples Short Story Competition – Shortlist
2019 – The Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize – Shortlist
2019 – The Sunderland Short Story Award -Longlist
2019 – The Ellipsiszine Flash Fiction Collection Competition – Shortlist
2019 – TSS Publishing Flash Fiction Competition – Longlist
2018 – The Exeter Short Story Award – Shortlist
2018 – Crossing the Tees Short story Competition – shortlist
2018 – Spread the Word Life-Writing Prize – Shortlist
2018 – Bedford International Writing Competition – Shortlist
Kathy Hoyle 