2021 | Won Gloucestershire Writers Network Prose Prize |
2015 - 2020 | Took a break from writing and performing. |
2012 - 2014 | Reading live at Story Fridays in Bath. |
2010 - 2013 | Part of the blogging team at Thresholds International Short Story Forum. |
2008 - 2014 | Founder and member of Company of Writers group in Bath. |
2008 - 2010 | Writer in residence at bloom & curll bookshop, Bristol. |
2008 - 2014 | Writing for The Short Review website. |
Oct 2007 | Gave up 'the day job' to become a writer and gardener. |
2006 - 2011 | Member of the Bristol-based storytelling group Heads & Tales. |
Oct 2004 - Feb 2005 | Working as part of the editorial and production team for the anthology Watermark. |
Oct 2003 - Sept 2004 | Studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College. |
Summer 2003 | Kicking The Can with Writers Junction in Bath. |
March 2003 | Began to spread out the unfurling.net website. |
Jan 2003 | Combined an obsession with bad puns and curry to create a collection of tiny stories called Currying Flavour. |
Sept - Dec 2002 | Took part in a project with the artist Randy Nehila, writing a book-length fiction in co-response to a series of images of oil paintings. |
1 Apr 2002 | 'Turned unprofessional' by reducing my paid occupation to three days a week to concentrate the rest of my time on writing. |
Oct 2001 - March 2002 | Kept the online daily notebook, Blue Hyacinth. |
2002 | Wrote This Train with Jennifer Jaye. |
Jan 2001 | The short story Cow Tipping was published by London Magazine in the anthology Signals 3. |
Summer 2000 | First wrote together with Everdeen Tree as Maev. |
April 2000 | Being Jevalenazdeth for the first time. |
Spring 1999 | Joined the trAce Online Writing Community |
1995 & 1996 | Departing People was a winner in BBC's First Bite competition. This, and another shortlisted story, One Call Is All It Takes, were broadcast in the afternoon short story slot on Radio Four. |
1993 onwards | Took a series of classes with the School of Continuing Education at Reading University. Became a member of A4 Writers in Reading with whom I workshopped my writing for a number of years. |
1981 | One of a hundred winners in a national writing competition for sixth formers. |
1964 | First unfurled in Surrey. |