ABOUT & CONTACT

Hello and thanks for finding me here. 



I'm a history graduate, and in my final year I concentrated on the Early Medieval period.
 

Here's my current writing 'CV':

Fiction

Novels:
To Be A Queen, Alvar the Kingmaker, Cometh the Hour, The Sins of the Father
(Awards: HNS Book of the Year longlist, IndieBRAG Medallions, Chill Readers & Discovering Diamonds Books of the Month, IAN Finalist.)

Anthologies
Betrayal  2020
1066 Turned Upside Down 2016

Nonfiction

Full length:
Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Pen & Sword 2020)
Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Amberley Books 2018)

Anthologies
Kings & Queens: 1200 Years of English Monarchs, Ed. Iain Dale (to be published by Hodder & Stoughton 2023)
Sexuality and its Impact on History (Pen & Sword 2018)

Prizes
Shortlist Exeter Short Story Prize 2021
Winner Dorothy Dunnett/HWA Short Story Competition 2017
Shortlist Scribble Mag Nonfiction Competition 2016
Finalist in Tom Howard Essay Prize 2015
Runner-up Mail on Sunday Novel Writing Competition 2012, 2013
Winner New Writing Magazine Prose Competition 2012

Magazine Articles 
Writing Magazine 2022
Cumbria Magazine 2016 
This England Magazine 2015
Grace Magazine 2010

Events
Panel Member Ask Historians Conference 2021: “All Women Have a Past: Reconstructing Women in the Historical Imagination.”
Speaker Tamworth Literary Festival 2018: “Reconstructing Early Women’s Voices in Fiction.”

Memberships
Elected Fellow of Royal Historical Society 
Society of Authors  
Historical Writers’ Association

Posts
Senior Reviewer at Discovering Diamonds 2020-2022
First Round Judge for HWA/Dorothy Dunnett Story Competition 2018-Present
First Round Judge for Historical Novel Society Story Competition 2018
EHFA (English Historical Fiction Authors) Blog Editor 2016-2020


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