I started studying creative writing at the Open University in 2015, doing their wonderful undergrad module A215. I was delighted to finish with a distinction and signed up for their Advanced Creative Writing course. Unfortunately I had to drop out due to family issues, but issues resolved, I returned the following year to find they’d launched a brand new MA in Creative Writing. I started the two-year part-time study at the end of  2016. I was awarded an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) and graduated at the Barbican on March 23rd 2019.  

To date (March 24) I’ve won several comps including: Flash 500, The Segora short story comp, Molotov Cocktail,  Horror Scribes, Ad Hoc micro prize,  National Flash Fiction Day Micro Comp and the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. I’ve also been awarded prizes at places like Retreat West, Ellipses Zine flash collection prize, Fountain mag creative non-fiction prize and Bath Flash. I’ve been published in anthologies at Retreat West, Fish Flash Competition, Reflex, The National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, Aesthetica, the Dinesh Allirajah Short story prize managed by Comma Press and The Curae Short story prize. I’ve been widely published over the last couple of years,  in print and on-line,  in places like FlashBack Fiction, Flash Flood and Fictive Dream, and between 2016-2023, I had stories nominated for Best on the net/Pushcarts. One of my flash fictions was also included in the BIFFY 50 (Best British and Irish Flash Fictions). Links to many of my flashes and short stories are on this blog and can be accessed by clicking on the relevant link. My debut memoir-in-flash The Naming of Bones, was published 22/4/2021 by the fabulous Retreat West Books and my novella, A Learning Curve is now on sale at Ad Hoc Fiction or signed copies are available direct from me (deets here on the Books for Sale page).

As well as being in love with words I’m a mum, granny, sister, wife and daughter, friend, pet enabler, carer and student of the tricky business of being as decent a human being as it’s possible for me to be. Thanks for visiting my teeny blogspace. All the stories and poems posted here are written by me and therefore my copywrite. If you would like to reproduce anything just ask. My e-mail is jankaneen@aol.com

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