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Publications

Picture of writer Petra McQueen and her brother Nicky McQueen when they were children. Used for Guardian article.
  • Flash Fiction. Contributor of five one-hundred-word stories to podcast. Coen, Adrian. ‘Bill’s Big Bag Of Onions’. 2023.

  • Creative Nonfiction ‘Leo’ ‘Material Evidence and Affective Responses: Archival Encounters and the Craft of Writing’. CHASE, 31 May 2023.

  • Editor. Glimpses of Infinity. A Write Minds Anthology. Inside Out Community. 2021. 

  • Short Story. ‘Leavings’. In Rebel Alliance: Short Story Anthology, edited by Anna Johnson. Patrician Press, 2020.

  • Short Story. ‘The Cellar and the Attic’. In Creel 5. Muscaliet Press, 2020.

  • Short Story. 'What Remains'. In illuminated manuscript, Moyes Hall Museum. 2019. 

  • Editor. Wings, and Other Straws. A Writeminds Anthology, Inside Out Community. 2019.

  • Short Story written with Katy Wimhurst. ‘The Carp Whisperer’. In Tempest - An Anthology. Essex: Patrician Press, 2019.

  • Flash fiction. ‘A Strong God’. In Port: Words from the Edge of Land. Essex: Dunlin Press, 2019.

  • Editor. 'Paths Made by Walking', The Writers Company Anthology, 2019.

  • Short story. ‘Fall Out’. In My Europe: An Anthology, edited by Anna Johnson. Essex: Patrician Press, 2018.

  • Editor. What if this Road. A Writeminds Anthology. Inside Out Community. 2018. 

  • Short story. ‘Fog’. The Ghost Story, 21 June 2017. https://theghoststory.com/fog.

  • Short Story. ‘Leavings’. In Refugees and Peacekeepers: A Patrician Press Anthology, edited by Anna Johnson. Patrician Press, 2017.

  • Editor. A Confluence of Spaces. A Writeminds Anthology. Inside Out Community. 2017.

  • Short Story. ‘The Cellar and the Attic’. In Fire., edited by Jose Varghese. The Strands Four Elements., Short Story Anthology 1. Strand, 2017.

  • Short Story. ‘Why Choose This Place to Die?’ In Water, edited by Jose Varghese. The Strands Four Elements, Short Story Anthology 2. Strand, 2017.

  • Editor. This is your Life. A Writeminds Anthology. Inside Out Community. 2016. 

  • Short story. ‘Feathers | The Saturday Evening Post’. The Saturday Evening Post, 2015. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2015/10/feathers/.

  • Short Story. ‘A Flame on Winter Solstice’. Cazart Stories, 2015.

  • Short Story. ‘A Necklace of Daisies and Hope’. Page & Spine, 2015.

  • Short Story. ‘Death by Natural Causes’. Page & Spine, 2015.

  • Short Story. ‘Deluge’. Open Road Review, 2015.

  • Short Story. ‘On the Verge’. In Borderline. Eyelands, 2015.

  • Short Story. 'Jack in the Hedge. In The Write Path. NAWG Publications 2014.

  • Editor with Peter Watkins. There is a Fire at the Heart of this City. A Writeminds Anthology. Inside Out Community. 2014.

  • Poem. ‘Earth’. In So Too Have the Doves Gone: Reflections on the Theme of Conflict., edited by Stephen Boyce. Jardine Press, 2014.

  • Short Story. ‘Hiroshima Shadows’. Grace Dieu, 2014.

  • Poem. ‘Instructions for a Smonnet’. In Palimpsest, Vol. 1. Palimpsest, 2014.

  • Life Writing. ‘He Wasn’t the Brother I Wanted | Life and Style | The Guardian’, n.d. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/23/my-brother-born-with-spina-bifida.

  • Editor with Manos Kounougakis, 'The Red Thread: Contemporary Tales from Athens to Essex' Patrician Press, 2013.

  • Life Writing. ‘Break-Ups: My Ex Loves Our Kids Too | Life and Style | The Guardian’, n.d. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/02/parents-split-dad-loves-kids-too.

  • Short Story. ‘Jack in the Hedge’. National Association of Writers Groups, 2013.

  • Life Writing. ‘He Wasn’t the Brother I Wanted’. You Magazine, 2013.

  • Poem. ‘Now He Has Left’. In Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets, edited by Nick McRae. Knoxville, Tennessee: Sundress Publications, 2013.

  • Short Story. ‘The Dauntless Girl’. Cabinet des Fees, 2013. https://www.cabinetdesfees.com/

  • Editor with Peter Watkins. This Much I know . A Writeminds Anthology. Inside Out Community. 2012.

  • Life Writing. ‘What I Would Save If My House Was Burning down | Life and Style | The Guardian’, n.d. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/02/save-house-burning-down.

  • Nature Writing. ‘Handpicked’. In EarthLines: Nature, Place and the Environment. Issue 1 May 2012., edited by Sharon Blackie. Two Ravens Press Ltd, 2012.

  • Poetry Judge and Editor with Taylor et al, Poetry Wivenhoe, Wivenbooks, 2011.

  • Short Story. 'Sebastian and the Shack-Man', Ellipsis Issue No.6, 2010.

  • Flash Fiction. ‘So This Is What It Feels Like’. Page & Spine, 2010.

  • Short story, ‘A Necklace of Daisies and Hope’. Whidbey Island: Whidbey Writers Choice, 2010.

  • Short story. ‘Death by Natural Causes’. In Five Stop Stories. Five Stop Story Magazine, 2010.

  • Flash Fiction. 'So This is What it Feels Like.' Changing Places. Ellipsis Issue No. 5. 2009.

  • Poems. 'Caernafon Castle' and 'So Long...' Poetry Wivenhoe Anthology, edited by Taylor et al, Wivenbooks, 2008.

  • Short Story: 'The Space Between.' In 'The Solution to my Life...', Ellipsis Issue No. 4. 2008. 

  • Flash Fiction. ‘So This Is What It Feels Like’. Drink Safe Tech, 2007.

  • Flash fiction. ‘A Strong God’. Southport Writers Circle: The Joan Nicholson Prize, 2005.

  • Short Story. ‘Manuel Lopez Barquero’. In Collections. Chapter One, Seaman's Roost,  2005.

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