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It is Summer at Camp Pomodoro

Longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.

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John "The Hammer" Johnson's Last Disaster Movie

Published in The New England Review.

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Notes from a Precipice

Longlisted in the 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize judged by Ottessa Moshfegh, Mariana Enriquez, and Tiffany Tsao, and published in the corresponding anthology.​

Published in the Brixton Review of Books.

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Lino has sat on his glasses

Longlisted for the 2022/23 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize judged by Jon McGregor, Jarred McGinnis, and Meena Kandasamy.

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Close Your Eyes

Shortlisted for the 2023 Manchester Fiction Prize judged by Lara Williams, Laura Barnett, Oliver Harris​

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Mr Tanaka Needs Some Rest

Published in The Forge and nominated for Best of the Net​.

 

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The Longhouse

Awarded 2nd Place in the 2022 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize judged by Sarah Hall. Forthcoming in the associated anthology​.

 

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Maldonado

Awarded 3rd place in the 2021 Short Fiction Journal/University of Essex Short Story Prize judged by Irenosen Okojie.

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The Floating Yoda on the Right

Awarded 3rd place in The 2019/20 London Magazine Short Story Prize judged by Alice Slater, Kit Caless, and Ian Sansom. Published in the October/November 2020 issue.

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Hands

These Violent Hands

Shortlisted for The 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize and published in the corresponding anthology.

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The Gold in the Giblets

Published in the Summer 2020 issue of The Moth Magazine​

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Down in the Mud on Limehouse Beach

Commended in the 2018 Bath Short Story Award and published in the corresponding anthology.

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