Thank you so much to @alanparrywriter.co.uk, @thebrokenspine.co.uk, for choosing my novella-in-flash as one of the three winners in the Summer 2025 Competition. I've been working on The Knack of Gaining Entry for years and have never given up on it. Now it has found a perfect home. I'm thrilled.

I've been waiting for happy news for my first post. I'm thrilled and surprised to have won the Laurie Lee Prize for Writing. I read my entry at Sunday's award ceremony to an attentive audience. My piece is a poetic memoir about my relationship with my father and my journey of grief after he died.