Events and Awards

Upcoming Events

  • 23rd November – Angus Book Fest (times TBC)
  • 22nd November – Signing at Scottish Christmas Book Fair, 1pm-1.30pm.
  • 15th November – Folklore & the Gothic with MK Hardy, But n’ Bens Bookshop.
  • 8th November: Aye Write – Dark Crescent and Scotland’s Geomythography. Tickets.

Past events, interviews and performances

  • October 2025: World Fantasy Con – Nature in Fantasy Panel
  • October 2025: A haunted “choose-your-own adventure” workshop, Elegant Lit
  • October 2025: HalloZine Fair Exhibitor and writing prompt workshop (sold out)
  • September 2025: Writing Horror – 6 week course with Alex Davis, Week 1: Thrills and Chills
  • July 2025: An Evening of Scottish Folklore with Angie Spoto and Lorraine Wilson, Blackwells Edinburgh.
  • June 2025: Imagine a Country – In Conversation- Rewrite the Future, Wardlaw Museum St Andrews.
  • June 2025: Dark Crescent Launch, The Edinburgh Bookshop.
  • June 2025: Elegant Lit Workshop: ‘Putting together a short story collection’
  • June 2025: Dundee Book Festival – Thrills at the Mills: From the Glen to the Page and Strange Stories. Tickets
  • June 2025: Cymera Fest 2025 – Folklore and Other Stories with V. Castro and Gustaffo Vargas.
  • June 2025: Cymera Fest 2025 – Writing Worlds with Chris Gregory and Emily Inkpen. Podcast recording.
  • June 2025: Cymera Fest 2025 – ‘Thrills and Chills’ Workshop
  • Event: Digital Dystopias event with Lorraine Wilson at Waterstones Dundee (November 2024)
  • Workshop: “Thrills and Chills: Tension and Misdirection in Isolated Settings” at Cymera Writers Conference (November 2024) and for Elegant Lit (November 2024)
  • Panel: “How to Build a Writing Network” at Cymera Writers Conference (November 2024)
  • Workshop: HalloZine fair workshop “A Haunted Generative Writing Workshop” (October 2024)
  • Event: Launch of Limelight and Other Stories at Argonaut Books with Katalina Watt (September 2024)
  • Interview: LIVE with Frasier Armitage of FanFiAddict (September 2024)
  • Interview: With Chris Gregory and Alan Lastufka for Alternative Stories & Fake Realities.
  • Panelist and participant at WorldCon, including – Edinburgh SFF Book Party, Group Book Launch, Autographing and Sustainability and SFF Fandom (August 2024)
  • Reading at Scottish Book Trust (Lunch) Box Fresh showcase event at Edinburgh International Book Festival (August 2024)
  • Reading: Lost in Leith Prose Slam participant (July 2024)
  • Chairing: Cymera Fest 2024 -Chairing of “Dark Encounters with Em Reed and Lorraine Wilson” and Host of Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon (June 2024)
  • Reading: Reader at Event Horizon at ALT Fringe, Argonaut Books (August 2023)
  • Reading: Brave New Words Reader at Cymera Fest 2023, reading from Have You Decided on Your Question (June 2023)
  • Reading: Reader at Lovecrumbs Readings (November 2022)
  • Reading: Performed and interviewed at BBC Upload Showcase to a full live audience in the Spiegeltent during Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 2022)
  • Reading: Brave New Words Reader at Cymera Fest 2022, reading “First Blood” (June 2022)
  • Event: Host, ‘Celebrating Women in Sci Fi’, Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon (March 2022)
  • Featured on BBC Radio Scotland via BBC Upload, Daughter of Fire and Water (February 2022)
  • Reading: “Art of Ariadne” at Lost, Looking & Found Book Launch (August 2021)
  • Event: Writer Spotlight, Edinburgh Literary Salon Speculative Special (May 2021)
  • Event: Featured Writer, Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon, ‘Myths & Legends’ (May 2021)
  • Chairing: ‘Writing Climate Fiction for Children’, Stay At Home Literary Festival – Chairing discussion with Hannah Gold, Author of The Last Bear (May 2021)
  • Reading: “Secrets of the Sea’ from Forest Publishing Chapbook, Where do you see yourself in five years?, Golden Hour and Forest Arts (April 2021)
  • Reading: Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award Showcase, available here. (March 2021)
  • Panel: Folklore Edition, Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast – other guests included Terri Windling, Dee Dee Chainey and Signe Maene. (March 2021)
  • Reading: “A Kelpie’s Breath”, The Great Margin Showcase (July 2020)
  • Reading: Cymera Fest Open Mic, available here. (June 2020)
  • Interview with Greta Thunberg for Young Geographer Magazine (July 2019)
‘Writing Climate Fiction for Children’ Event

Awards and Recognition

  • 3 x British Fantasy Award Finalist for Best Collection and Best Newcomer, “Limelight and Other Stories” in 2025; and Best Audio in 2022 with ‘Daughter of Fire and Water’
  • 2024 Shirley Jackson Award Finalist for Outstanding Achievement in Novelette – for “The Girl With Barnacles for Eyes” – Split Scream Volume Five, Tenebrous Press
  • Creative Scotland Funding Award in 2025 for dark sci fi project “Every Little Death” (in progress)
  • Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2020
  • BSFA Longlist for Best Collection – Limelight and Other Stories, 2025
  • Hawthornden Literary Retreat Fellow, November-December, 2022
  • Winner, Apex Magazine Flash Contest, January 2024, with “A Ring Around”.
  • 2nd Place Winner – 2022 British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition with “The Medium’s Assistant”, in BFS Horizons #16
  • 2022 LOHF Writers Grant Recipient (via Horror Spotlight)
  • Shortlisted Mslexia Short Story Competition 2021 – “First Blood” was then published in Mslexia’s ‘Best Women’s Short Fiction 2021‘, published December 2021
  • Shortlisted, 2022 Fractured Lit Ghosts, Fable, and Fairytales Prize, judged by Rumaan Alam
  • Finalist 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest
  • Shortlist WriteMentor Short Story Competition (August 2021 & October 2021)
  • Emerging Writer in Residence, Stay At Home Literary Festival 2020
  • Liars’ League London, Women & Girls Theme Winner (August 2021) and Mystery & Suspense Theme Winner (June 2020)
  • Retreat West, Monthly Micro Fiction Prize, Runner-Up, July 2020
  • Shoreline of Infinity and Cymera Fest Prize for Speculative Fiction Runner-up 2019
New Writers Awards Showcase 2021

Other roles