Creative writing

Selected credits:

Poetry

  • Hefted – Highly Commended – the MK Lit Fest poetry prize and featured in the MinK2025 anthology – MinK#5: Home (2025) Read more.
  • The Whaler – shortlisted for the Bedford Competition (2024) and featured in the prize anthology Read more.
  • The Birdwatcher’s Year – shortlisted Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition (2017) One of 25 pamphlets shortlisted by the judge – Amy Wack of Seren Press. Read more.

Poetry – exclusive to this site

Short fiction

  • The Bargain and The Poison Garden – MinK #1 (2018) Two of my short stories featured in the inaugural issue of a new literary zine for Milton Keynes. Read more.
  • The Morning Run – Voices From The Grid (2017) one of 50 short stories set in Milton Keynes. Read more.
  • The Noted Liar – Bedford International Writing Competition: Anthology of the 2016 Bedford Prize Shortlist (published 2017) Shelly Dennison uses a pub tradition in ‘The Noted Liar’ to explore storytelling and the truth, from the title to the twist in the tale – Margaret Norwich writing in the introduction. Read more.
  • The Goldsmith – Bedford International Writing Competition (2015) Readers’ Commendation.

Script

  • A Fairy Tale – The Royal Court Theatre, London (2015) GRIT – short pieces inspired by the themes of resistance, revolution and defiance. A selection of those tiny plays, including mine, were performed as rehearsed readings. Read more.