Nicole is an odd blend.

Malted in Scotland. Mashed in Belgium. Fermented in Singapore. Distilled in San Francisco, Shelved in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Born in 1995, she pursues a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. She has seen her work published by Fish and BffA.

2026 | A guest judge for the Paperboats x ‘Energy Stories’ Creative Writing Competition, Nicole also presented her paper, “Communities of Belief: Science & Magic as Technologies of the Fantastic in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad” at the University of Glasgow’s GIFConference, and had her academic paper, ‘Coping with the Abyss: Memory as Memoir as Fiction,’ published in the University of Nottingham’s LTS Journal: Issue 8. She also won a research grant from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

2025 | Nicole was long-listed for the Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction for “The Second Amen” and the Mslexia Short Story Competition for “Sullen Kinks.” She also began a Creative Writing PhD at the University of Strathclyde and worked a research placement at the Alasdair Gray Archive in Glasgow.

2024 | In addition to graduating with distinction from the University of Edinburgh, completing an MSc in Creative Writing, Nicole also presented her academic paper, “Echoes of Rebels: Singlish and Scots as Linguistic Identity,” at the University of Nottingham’s LTS Conference. She also received an honourable mention in the Fish Flash Fiction Competition for “Things That Hurt,” was long-listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Competition for “Supernova on a String,” and was invited to read at the West Cork Literary Festival in the Republic of Ireland.

Love Notes

“Some stand out for the way they land: in “Things That Hurt”, the reader is left in a state of quandary, or wonder.” - Michelle Elvy (Fish 2024 Judge)