Steph's Storyville

This story won the January 2024 monthly micro competition from Retreat West. The theme was bark.

Long listed for walk-listen and create. With the theme of 'Healing Trees'.

https://urbantreefestival.org/writing-competition-top-24/blog-post-title-four-e4hpr

A flash story published in the 4th edition of Westword Journal. The theme was 'Hope'.

You can read it here:- https://westword.substack.com/p/germinating-a-tiny-hope

You can access the full edition and the other 8 stories here:- https://westword.substack.com/p/edition-4-december-2023

This piece was the winner of the first Kettering Litfest short story competition.

The theme of the contest was, 'Change.'

This flash story was published on the National Flash Flood Day 2023.

This short story was long-listed in Flash500 competition and then with further editing, reached the shortlist of Farnham Flash Fringe Competition July 2023.

A prose poem recently published in Kith Review Magazine. https://janfortune.com/kith-review/
Songs for Recovery is a personal poem which was begun after my husband was recovering from an illness which put him on a life support machine. Thankfully he is now well. But I believe the process of writing this poem helped me to get through some difficult times and realise how important nature is to our well-being.

A festive short story which was short listed for the Retreat West Christmas Competition

My short listed story from Hastings Writers Room on the theme 'Missing'.

One of the selected stories for 'Turning Point'...an anthology of life changing moments from Exisle Publishing.

Prize winning short story from Hastingslitfest 2018 based on the theme of 'Conquest'.

Short story. Third prize winner in the Foxes' Retreat short story competition 2020