My Creative Writing Portfolio
Welcome to my creative writing portfolio where you can explore a collection of carefully crafted story extracts and poetry, handpicked for yours truly. I have selected works written between 2022 - 2025 to demonstrate my ongoing growth as a writer.
Please note: certain features may not display correctly on mobile devices.
About Me
​Some of my favourite quotes...
"All history is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
Alice Walker
​
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
Audre Lorde
​
"I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
​
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
Robert Frost​​​​
​
20-year-old Black British writer from the West Midlands studying English with Creative Writing (BA Hons) at Loughborough University.
​
Some of my biggest influences...
bell hooks
Donna Tartt
Edgar Allan Poe
ee cummings
Jandy Nelson
Jane Austen
Malorie Blackman
Marissa Meyer
Sappho
Tiffany D. Jackson
​
Some of my favourite books/stories...
Bone Black - bell hooks
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
​
Some of my favourite poems...
anyone lived in a pretty how town - ee cummings
A Woman Speaks - Audre Lorde
Imago Dei - Nora Hikari
The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats
Women - Alice Walker
​
​
​
Reader's Voices
What Readers Say
"Your world-building skills are exceptional! The way you've crafted this intricate and richly detailed universe is awe-inspiring. I can't help but get lost in the magic of it all."
​
"Your characterization is spot-on. I felt like I was reading an official novel."
​
"The descriptive detail, the bone-crushing angst, the awkwardness, the love is all feelable through the screen of the reader."
​
"Really awesome job with this story :)) As I said before, the plot twist is really great and you’re a very good writer. Can’t wait to read more of your works! "
​
"Wow, I am impressed by the rhythm that you established with your rhymes, especially since each line is on the longer side. Sometimes lengthy sentences fall into the trap of wordiness, which reduces the piece's overall impact and rhythm, but with this piece, that is not an issue at all! In fact, the length of each sentence gives the fantastic sense that the whole piece is one organized train of thought."
Online Readers
(from writing websites such as Write the World)
Lecturers
"A fascinating experimental short story that shows real promise and I am looking forward to seeing you develop as a writer. You have created a strong, ironical narrative voice inspired by fairy-tale linguistic tropes."
​
"The prose piece is full of whimsy and magical realism. You have alluded to so much literature that I suspect it is one of those pieces you could keep coming back to and seeing something new."
M