Hi folks, I feel so incredibly lucky to be included on this list and grateful to have the opportunity to receive a manuscript assessment from the judges, Jasmin McGaughey and Alice Grundy. It’s such a rare gift to receive professional feedback on your MS, and this is a MS I have really been searching for guidance with to take it to where it needs to be. I honestly was about to drawer it, as I’ve started on my next novel, but now I’m really looking forward to seeing where I can take it. Feeling optimistic, hopeful, and so lucky because, for me, it’s up there with being shortlisted for the Vogel all so long ago now, with the extra bonus of being offered expert guidance. Massive congrats to fellow listers and to all who keep persisting and sharing their words. X

The lovely folks of Cordite Poetry Review have published my lyric essay ‘Net Carries Water’. It’s about losing my mum, speculative nostalgia, and grief.

In my essay for TEXT, I reflect on teaching writing at a regional university.

Arial Gore includes Nobody in her list of 10 Magical Feminist Books that Inspire Creative Resistance (Literary Hub).

In my lyric essay ‘We might as well call it a boat’ for TEXT, I ponder the lyric essay shape, heterotopias, trauma, and the complex characterisation of Carol from The Walking Dead.

Sean Wright  reviews Nobody (Adventures of a Bookonaut).

Louise Allan features my personal observations of being brave as a writer in her series Writers in the Attic.