BOOKS

I BELONG HERE: A JOURNEY ALONG THE BACKBONE OF BRITAIN (Bloomsbury)
I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain won a Books Are My Bag Readers Award and was nominated for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, the Portico Prize, the Great Outdoors Award and Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for literature evoking ‘the spirit of a place’. Selected as a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Observer, i, and Best Travel Book by Wanderlust, Telegraph, and Stanfords Travel.

Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing About Walking edited by Kerri Andrews (2023)
– Extract from I Belong Here included.
This anthology collects writers throughout history from the 19th century to the present-day including Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Nan Shepherd and Kathleen Jamie.

Awe and Wonder: An EMC (English and Media Centre) Anthology of Nature Writing (2023) – extract from I Belong Here

North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature – Edited by Karen Lloyd (2022)

Women on Nature edited by Katharine Norbury (2021).
The landmark anthology collects writers throughout history from the fourteenth-century to contemporary classics.

Common People: an Anthology of Working Class Writers (2019).
My contribution ‘On Class & the Countryside’ explores my personal experience of class inequalities in access to nature.

Seaside Special: Postcards From the Edge edited by Jenn Ashworth (2018)
A short story set in Blackpool in an anthology about landscapes and lives in the North-West of England. Other contributors include Andrew Michael Hurley, Kirsty Logan and Carys Bray and it was launched at Wordpool Festival, Blackpool. My contribution was acclaimed by the editor: “Beautiful and sensitive”.

We Mark Your Memory: Writing from the Descendants of Indenture edited by David Dabydeen (2018)
My essay ‘Escape From El Dorado: a Bittersweet Journey through my Guyanese History’ tackles the effects of erasure from print records, reclaiming history, migrating through place on the mind, my identity as a descent of indenture growing up in Manchester, as well as the deep scars colonialism left on the landscape and mind.  I was invited to read from this book at several prestigious venues. Acclaimed by the editor: “Exceptionally talented”.

Three Things I’d Tell My Younger Self edited by Joanna Cannon (2018)
A letter to my younger self. Other contributors include Tracy Chevalier, Adam Kay and Patrick Gale. My writing was acclaimed by the editor: “Brilliant, beautiful and incredibly moving”.

The Good Journal edited by Nikesh Shukla (2018)

Seasons: Nature Writing Anthology for the Changing Seasons (2016)