Hex House
Titan Books,
April 2026
Novels:
Hex House (Titan Books, April 2026)
A feverishly told, dark and unsettling Scotland-set fairy-tale about a safe haven for women which transforms them into vessels of revenge, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, A. G Slatter and Julia Armfield.
ELLY
Elly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Because he’s not what people think he is – and she knows that, one day, he’ll hurt her in a way she can’t fix. Freezing and lost in the dead of night, Elly begins to lose hope.
A woman in the woods alone is never the beginning of the story. It’s usually the end.
So, when a beautiful house appears out of nowhere and a woman beckons her inside, it almost feels too good to be true.
Welcome to Hex House: a refuge, a home, a sanctuary. A place that can only be found by those who truly need it; a place that promises to teach Elly how to access a power more incredible – and more terrifying – than anything she could have imagined.
SIOBHAN
Four years after Siobhan meets Elly at Hex House, her life is in ruins. Once a promising filmmaker invited to the house to make a documentary with her brother, Theo, she’s given up on her dream after witnessing unspeakable horrors there. Now, she spends her time drinking too much, toying with an older man in increasingly dangerous ways, and trying to get Theo to speak to her again. She ignores the scar on her stomach that never fully heals.
That is, until someone reaches out with news about Hex House that could change everything.
And Siobhan knows, deep down, that she was always destined to return.
Prizes and Awards:
Bath Short Story Award - Shortlisted (‘My Sister is Making Cocido’) 2025
Bristol Short Story Award - Shortlisted (‘Cold Blood’) 2023
Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award - Winner (‘Big Breath’) 2022
Bath Flash Fiction Award - Longlisted (‘Digitus’) 2021
New Writing North and Word Factory Northern Apprentice Award - Winner (‘Lunch at Lucy’s) 2021
The Bridport Prize - Highly Commended (‘Wolf Women’) 2019
Short Stories:
Bath Short Story Prize Anthology ‘My Sister is Making Cocido’ (December 2025)
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology - ‘Cold Blood’ (October 2023)
New Writing Scotland 41 - ‘Nothing but a Set of Eyes For Stars’ - The Orange (August 2023)
Mairtin Crawford Award Website - Big Breath (June 2022)
Crow & Cross Keys - Nightjar (August 2021)
Test Signal (Bloomsbury/Dead Ink Books, July 2021) - Making Monsters
Route 57 - Ava (June 2021)
The York Journal - Hekla (May 2021)
Creative Writing Heals III - Dust Bowl (December 2020)
Undivided Magazine - Harry Black Marked Himself as Safe During Typhoon Kuat (August 2020)
Bridport Prize Anthology - Wolf Women (October 2019)
Beyond the Walls - The Land of Unbecoming (March 2019)
Creative Writing Heals II - Toy Town (March 2019)
Discorder Magazine - The Sun and the Moon (March 2017)
Flash Fiction:
Snow Crow: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Six - Digitus (December 2021)
Visual Verse - Luna (August 2021)
The Aurora Journal - Keep Me (January 2021)
Ellipsis Zine, Eight - Black Dot to Little Flame (October 2020)
Poetry:
The Grapevine Project Exhibition (November 2021) Under Covers, Underground
Reclaim: An Anthology of Women’s Lives (Bandit Fiction, October 2021) - How Are You?
Bandit Fiction - How Are You? (April 2021)
Waste Magazine - What Remains (March 2019)
Press and interviews:
Mairtin Crawford winner’s interview - Mairtin Crawford website (June 2022)
'Amy Stewart: From Copywriting to Writing the Circus’ - York St John Alumni Blog (November 2021)
'Dead Ink and Bloomsbury Showcase Northern Literary Talent in New Anthology’ - The Bookseller (August 2020)
Reviews & Non-Fiction:
Get ‘Em Young, Treat ‘Em Tough, Tell ‘Em Nothing by Robin McLean review (for Word Factory) 2022
We Move by Gurnaik Johal review (for Word Factory) 2022
On Relationships anthology review (for Word Factory) 2022
Manchester Uncanny review (for Word Factory) 2023
Academic Writing:
Queens of the Air: Remarkable Female Aerialists Who Rewrote the Rules (For Sheffield University’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities Women’s History Month Campaign). March 2023