Tag: awards

  • End of 2025 roundup and awards eligibility post!

    End of 2025 roundup and awards eligibility post!

    Awards eligibility 2025 and a review of author events during the year and some photos of the things I saw.

  • E.M. Faulds 2024 Awards Eligibility

    E.M. Faulds 2024 Awards Eligibility

    If you’ve read something I’ve published in 2024 and liked it, please do put it forward for an appropriate award. Recognition for my work helps me get more pieces published, and helps more readers find me! Here’s a list of possibilities.

  • BFA win

    So, Under the Moon ended up winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection 2023. I had not seen it coming. I was up against some amazing writers, and still can’t quite believe it. But it did happen, so I guess on to the next thing. It took me a long time to put this…

  • Under the Moon on the British Fantasy Award Shortlist 2023

    Under the Moon has been nominated for a British Fantasy Award! I’m chuffed, but also intimidated by the competition on that list. It’s all… a bit overwhelming. As a category, it is smaller than, say, short story. But if you’ve read any of the others, you know it’s in no way a slam dunk for…

  • Broken Blue longlisted for BSFAs

    I was really pleased to see my story got into the longlist for the British Science Fiction Association’s Best Short Fiction award. If you’re a member, perhaps you could punt it a vote to get it into the short list? It’s a tough field, with works up to novella length being included in the list.…

  • Shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award!

    I’m stoked and flattered and humbled and feeling slightly sick still after finding out I was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. My story, A Flight of Birds, follows a lonely “vampire” barista working late nights in Glasgow’s West End. I put vampire in quotes because in fact, they’re a very…