I’m Jane, I’m a writer, a Kiwi and a serial immigrant who now lives in England. In my teens and twenties, I was a New Zealand representative swimmer, holding the New Zealand women’s 200m breaststroke record for four years and swimming for Washington State University in the NCAA. My work usually focuses on issues of identity, political change and the connection between a sense of place and social outcomes. To date, my work has been featured in or recognised by the publications/contests below.
“The Angel, Islington” was published by Witness Magazine in 2023 “Just to You”, long-listed in the 2023 Brick Lane Bookshop prize, and published in the anthology “Lessons Learned At A Late Night Pizza Place Off The Champs Élysées“, published in JMWW Public swimming pool abuse, published in the Independent “I Don’t Mind, This Could Be The Last Time”, published in Ellipsis Zine 8 “Our Side of the Clouds“, originally published in Entropy Magazine “With Honors“, published in trampset. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize “About The Skating“, published in Newsroom “Wrath, Nursed and Kept Warm“, published by Overheard Magazine. Nominated for Best of the Net “From Carisbrook With Love“, published in VirtualZine “Champagne Diaspora“, published in Another Chicago Magazine “The Seen“, published by Fairlight Books “Girl, Boxed“, published by Fairlight Books “Oblations“, published by Reflex Fiction “Pretty Girls in Places Like This“, finalist London Independent Story Prize “Davy Jones and the Cape“, finalist in the Intrepid Times travel writing competition “A Trading Post on the 117th Meridian West“, published by Ellipsis Zine “Rose, An Epithet“, published in Expat Lit Press “Madonna and the Floor at Gate A12, Seattle Tacoma International Airport“, published by Hayden’s Ferry Review “Viva“, published by Spelk “Courtenay Place, Two Sections Please” was published in the Tandem Press anthology of flash fiction “The People Versus Chapter 20” was published in Identity Theory in April 2023 “Letters From Jetty Street, Thursday Island” was a finalist in the New Millennium Writings 50th Awards “Obstructing the Doors Can Be Dangerous” was published in Litro Magazine in May 2023 “The Eighth Rule of Fight Club” was published on the Superstition Review blog in November 2023 “Under London”, a precursor to “Obstructing the Doors Can Be Dangerous” was awarded Best Fiction and published by LandEscapes in 2004
