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Coming 2026 from Flame Tree Press
Winner of the 2024 Bloody Parchment Award for South African Horror. (A story of the Fray)
First published in Breaking Through: A Punk Anthology, 2024. Now available for free at Divination Hollow Reviews. (A story of the Fray)
Nasesena and the God-song
(A Sauútiverse story) forthcoming from Kaleidotrope
Threnody of the Tetekute
Coming soon in a horror anthology
Thief
(A Sauútiverse story) coming soon from The Lost Poetry Club
Reative nonfiction published by The Stygian Society, January 2025
Published by Ruadan Books in their inaugural anthology Winter in the City, 10 December 2024
(A Sauútiverse story) published by Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, April 2024 (BSFA Awards longlist 2025)
Published by Trembling with Fear, Feb 14 2024
Published in the Folkloric anthology from Sentinel Creatives, April 2024
In Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, published November 2023 by Android Press. Available as an Audiobook January 16, 2024. Also to be published in Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3,  edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Ebere Eziaghighala.
Spin a Yarn of Chaos published in the Into the Dark Wood anthology, October 2023
Published by Reader Beware Magazine, September 2023
Published by Mythaxis Magazine, September 30, 2023
Published by Sword&Sorcery, December 31, 2022
Published by Hyphenpunk, December 21, 2022
Published by Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, September 2022. Also published in Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022, edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis
In the hopepunk anthology, Hope Riot, October 2022. Republished by Android Press, December 2023
Published by The Crow’s Quill, July 22, Also published in Shadowed Realms: The 2022 Indie Dark Fiction Anthology from Horror Tree
Published by Pyre Magazine, Spring Issue, 2022
Audio version published by Cast of Wonders, 2022
Published by Seize the Press, 2022
Published by Bards and Sages Quarterly, January 2022
Published by Silver Pen: Youth Imagination, September 20 2021 (Ethereal-verse)
Published in GROWTH by TL;DR, September 2021 (By the Blood of Rowans tie-in)
Published by Hyphenpunk, August 18 2021 (Ethereal-verse)
Published in Skinkbeat Review’s PRIDE issue, June 25 2021
Published in Issue #1 from Black Cat Lit Magazine, June 2021 (A story of the Fray)
Published by Jay Henge Publishing in the ‘Joining Forces’ anthology, June 2021 (A story of the Fray)
Published by All Worlds Wayfarer, March 2021 (A story of the Fray). Reprinted in their Prismatic Dreams, LGBTQ+ anthology, 2022
From Grace&Victory Publishing in ‘A Quiet Afternoon 2’ anthology, 2021
Published by The Colored Lens in Winter 2021, #Issue 38
Published in the ‘G is for Ghosts‘ anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish, October 2021By Blade and Bloom published in the Fox Spirit Book of Love from Fox Spirit Publishing, April 2021 (A story of the Fray)
Published by Curiouser Magazine, April 2021. (A story of the Fray)Requiem for a Nightclub forthcoming from Bone&Ink Press in their ‘This Is Not a Punk Rock Anthology, It’s a New Wave Anthology’ (NEVER PUBLISHED)
Published by Daily Science Fiction, 19 Feb 2021
Published in text and audio formats (read by Alec Sibbald) by Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Issue 32, Nov 24 2020The Order of Stolen Hearts published by Apparition Lit in the April 2020 ‘Transfiguration‘ collection.
Published in Charon’s Song, an anthology from Skolion, 2019 (Ethereal-verse)
Published by Static Movement in Road Trip anthology, September 2011, subsequently published by Abandoned Towers.
Published online by 365Tomorrows (spelling error in published title by publisher)
Published by Oysters and Chocolate November 2011
Published by Sounds of the Night February 2012
Published by Roar and Thunder, February 2012
First published by Golden Visions Magazine in their Winter edition, 7 January 2012.
Published by Kindling, February 2012.
Published by Earthbound Fiction in the Dark Stars Anthology, 2012.
Published by Mad Scientist Journal. April 16, 2012.
Published by Cast of Wonders, 2012. Audio and text versions.
Published by Storm Moon Press in the anthology ‘Written in Flesh.’ 14 September 2012.
Published by Niteblade. September 2012. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2012)
Published by Bumples children’s magazine, October 2012
Published by Static Movement in their A-Z Cities of Death anthology, June 2013.
Published in Reality Bites anthology by Green Wizard Publishing, April 13, 2013
Published in I Do!? an LGBTQI anthology by ImageOutWrite, October 2013
Published in ‘A is for Apocalypse‘ anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish, April 2014 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2014)
(translated to Finnish) published in Tähtivaeltaja, 2014
Published by Storm Moon Press in the anthology ‘Written in Flesh.’ 14 September 2012.
Published in Space Squid, 2015
Published in ‘B is for Broken’ anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish, 2015.
Anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish, 2016.*Explicit adult content

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