• ‘Burned’ [poem], Grain Magazine [Canada], vol IX, no. 4, November 1981.
• ‘Widow’ [poem], Iron, no. 42, June 1984.
• ‘Fellow Traveller’ [poem], Borderlines, June 1987.
• ‘Time for Tea’ [poem], Cobweb, no. 6, May 1990.
• ‘You Say Potato’ [poem], Spokes, no 21, Summer 1992.
• ‘Totem’ [poem], in One for Jimmy [anthology], ed. Matthew Sweeney, Autumn 1992.
• ‘The Baby-Frame’ [short story], Foolscap, no. 15, October 1993.
• ‘The Wistfulness of Claes Chezwe’ [poem], Staple, no. 31, Winter 1994.
• ‘Wreaking Justice’ [short story], The Swansea Review, no. 12, 1994.
• ‘God’s Machynlleth’ [poem], The Rialto, no. 34, Spring 1996.
• ‘South of Jarrow,’ ‘Boy Racer,’ ‘Dragonblue,’ and ‘Plas Meini’ [poems], Fire, no. 3, December 1996.
• ‘Joe’s’ [poem], Stand Magazine, vol 39, no. 1, Winter 1997.
• ‘Port Winston Mulberry’ [poem], in In England Now [anthology], ed. Roger Garfitt, 1998.
• ‘Taking Pete Wiznuk Out’ [story], finalist entry, Stand Magazine International Short Story Competition, Autumn 1997.
• ‘Sir Patrick Spens,’ first prize, The Housman Poetry Competition, April 1998.
• ‘Now the Wife’s Gone’ [poem] and ‘Taverner’s Business’ [short story], Stand Magazine, vol. 40, no. 2, Spring 1999.
• ‘Tell Me About Eileen’ [short story], Cadenza, no. 4, 2001.
• ‘My Mother’s Major’ [short story], The Interpreter’s House, no. 17, June 2001.
• ‘Dodging Jaxi’ [poem], Poets Anonymous Competition, London, June 2001. Judge: Carol Rumens.
• ‘A Day’ [poem], Other Poetry, II, no. 19, 2001.
• ‘Delfigo Street’ [short story], Antioch Review (US), vol 60, no. 2, Spring 2002.
• ‘True Likeness’ [poem], Poets Anonymous Competition, London, June 2002. Judge: Janice Fixter.
• ‘The Last Skateboarder,’ ‘The Captain’s Fever,’ ‘Boy Racer’ [poems]. Published as part of a general feature on my writing in Magazine Six: The Key West Issue, ed. Kirby Congdon (Key West, Florida, Spring, 2006).
• ‘Cows in a Corofin Field’ [poem], commended, Poetry London Competition, August 2006. Judge: Michael Symmons Roberts.