Awards and Mentions

• Infinity Land - Longlisted in the Retreat West Opening Chapter Competition 2025

• Infinity Land - Shortlisted in the Retreat West Opening Lines Competition 2025

• VICTORIA - Longlisted in the 2023 Writing Mentorship Award

• Pale & Strain - Finalist in the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award under ‘Best Investigator’

• Pale & Strain - Longlisted in Retreat West Opening Lines Competition 2023

• VICTORIA- Longlisted in The Masters’ Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest

• Berry & Darling - Semi-Finalist in the Sunspot Lit 2020 Inception Writing Contest

• Helmouth - Shortlisted in the 2020 Spotlight First Novel Competition

• Helmouth - Finalist in the 2019 Adventures in Fiction New Voices Competition.

• Upset & Tranquillity - Longlisted for the TSS 2019 Short Story Competition

Short Stories

• Conversations with God - Blood + Honey Lit, 16/06/2025

• Mister Bubbles - The Hooghly Review, 01/06/2025

• A Call From Cobra - Weird Lit Magazine, 20/03/2025

• Lenore, 30 - Hobart Pulp, 23/10/2020

• The Final Resting Place of Jonathan Stoakes - Disclaimer Magazine, 04/12/2016

• Jesus is in California - Disclaimer Magazine, 15/10/2016

Interviews & Articles

• Interview w/ Weird Lit Magazine - 21st April 2025

YouTube Videos (as Kat Taylor)

• Why Columbo Works — Anatomy of an Episode - 27th January 2023

• A Viewer’s Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2nd February 2023

• The Magic of Murder — The Craft of Jonathan Creek - 19th February 2023

Reader at

• The Masters’ Review - January 2021 to June 2021

Residencies and Writing Groups

• 2020 Alumnus of the New Orleans Writers’ Residency

• Collier Street Fiction Group - 2018 to 2021

• Curtis Brown ‘Write Your Novel’ Course - April to July 2025

Book Reviews

• Please Let Me Destroy You by Rupert Taylor (No Frills Buffalo Publishing) - The Masters’ Review, 24/07/2024

• Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press) - The Masters’ Review, 21/11/2023

• Is That All There Is? by Marcelle Heath (Awst Press) - The Masters’ Review, 13/09/2022

• Myth of Pterygium by Diego Gerard Morrison (Autumn House Press) - The Masters’ Review, 22/03/2022

• Dog Towne by Alice Kaltman (Word West Press) - The Masters’ Review, 01/06/2021

• School of Forgery by Jon Stone (Salt Publishing) - Disclaimer Magazine, 20/07/2018

• Refugee Tales (Vol 1 & 2) by Various, edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press) - Disclaimer Magazine, 22/07/2017

• Time’s Witnesses by Jakob Lothe (Fledgling Press) - Disclaimer Magazine, 11/06/2017

• The Ghost Who Bled by Gregory Norminton (Comma Press) - Disclaimer Magazine, 26/05/2017

• Kill the Next One by Federico Axat (Text Publishing) - The Book Bag, 09/12/2016

• Nineveh by Henritetta Rose-Innes (Aardvark Bureau) - The Book Bag, 07/11/2016

• The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear Mcbride (Faber) - Disclaimer Magazine, 23/09/2016