In 2009, my short story ‘Dammed’ was one of eleven selected in the Rhys Davies short story competition and published in 2010’s Getting Up: Short Story Compilation from the 2010 Rhys Davies Prize, Leaf Books, Cardiff.

It was one of three chosen from the winners to be adapted for radio, and was broadcast on Radio 4 in April 2010.

The judges Stevie Davies and Niall Griffiths had this to say about it:"Dammed is a monologue which evokes, in a suggestive and imagistic style, the bitterly valedictory mood of the aftermath of a death. Helplessly inert in the face of family pressure, the narrator records the breaking of a dam in an explosion of sensual self-assertion. The narrative use of imagery is striking and memorable".