Vintage open book with textured pages, colorful torn paper layers, and a botanical sketch on parchment

Writing

I write fiction, poetry, and essays. My writing has appeared in English and Maltese, in literary journals, anthologies and a poetry chapbook, and I’m currently working on my first novel. Below you’ll find selected publications alongside work recognised by literary prizes.

Books

Poster for Chalk Line Theatre's play Blanket Ban by Davinia Hamilton and Marta Vella, featuring two women in blue dresses.

Blanket Ban

play | methuen drama

Book cover of Davinia Hamilton's “I Cannot Speak It but It Comes,” featuring an abstract black textured artwork.

i cannot speak it but it comes

poetry chapbook | ede books
(out of print)

Selected writing

Fiction

The Shewings
Shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize 2026

The Lycanthropes
Salvage Issue 9

Likantropi
Aphroconfuso

Gemini
Scintillas 3

Essays

Żerriegħa
on Aphroconfuso

Lsien in-Nisa
in Marta Marta

While We Eat
in Solidarity: A Celebration of Activism

Lkoll Parti mill-Istaġun li Jmiss
on Aphroconfuso

Djarju
on Aphroconfuso

Poetry

Horsey Gap, December
Longlisted for the Rialto Nature & Place Poetry Competition 2026

For Gallantry (1942)
in The Other Side of Hope, Spring 2025 Vol 4.2

Blindsided
in Wet Grain, issue 2

Seasonal Autoreply for the Soft Animal of Your Body
in UEA Winter Anthology 2025

Melitensia
in Cathexis Northwest Press

Rumpelstiltskin
in Tilde, issue 4

Vintage collage of a black-and-white lizard illustration on torn paper with the words “EVEN NOW, THE FLOWERS”

Even Now, the Flowers

A newsletter about creativity and the tender act of writing in a broken world.