Work

Publications

Ruby’s work has been published in Aesthetica, Ellipsis, The Guardian, Hippocampus, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Litro, Mechanics’ Institute Review, The Moth, Mslexia, New Internationalist, New Welsh Review, Panorama, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, The Real Story, and Wasafiri, as well as several anthologies.

Here are a few examples:

• Doing a Geographical, Panorama (2024)

• An Anatomy of Shame, New Welsh Reader (2020)

• Natural Causes, Wasafiri Magazine of International Contemporary Writing (2019)

• Step Eight, The Real Story (2019)

Contests

Winner:

• Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize (2019) (Life Writing category, judged by Nikesh Shukla)

Nominee:

• Best of the Net (2020) (Creative Nonfiction category, nominated by Hippocampus)

Finalist:

• New Welsh Writing Awards (2020) (Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting)

• Center for Women Writers’ International Literary Awards (2019) (Creative Nonfiction category, judged by Melissa Febos)

• Fish Memoir Prize (2019)

• Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (2018)

• Greywood Arts Short Story Contest (2018)

Grants

• Arts Council England, ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ (2019)