writings & outputs

my writing moves across academic, public and creative forms, but returns to the same questions: how do communities preserve knowledge, what gets dismissed as superstition, and whose stories become heritage?

𖣂 featured work 𖣂

A supernatural fiction short story concerned with memory, ordinary life, ambiguity and the uncanny. Its recognition through the John McGivering Writing Prize forms part of my wider interest in how supernatural narrative makes everyday lives and places feel storied, haunted and meaningful.

Due to be published in Kipling Journal 405 on 1st September 2026

  • "…Hannah Walton’s remarkably well written ‘The Hollow Fetch’, which like Kipling makes the supernatural appear in the everyday, so that the vividly rendered details of ordinary life communicate a true frisson, while its needy spectre is frighteningly mysterious.”

    Janet Montefiore,
    Organiser of John McGivering Prize on behalf of The Kipling Society.

  • “…what a beautiful writer you are. Your language is elegant, your imagery luminous, and your storytelling spacious, allowing for mystery, uncertainty and possibility to surface…This is a remarkable portfolio - poetic, thought-provoking and, altogether, very moving.”

    Briony Goffin,
    ‘Inherited Tales’ lead and Creative Writing tutor at Cardiff University.

  • "I thought [your summative essay] was a good and systematic exploration of a particularly thorny guiding theoretical concept, and using the cunning woman as your test model was highly effective...I appreciated a couple of points in particular. The warning about accepting collectors’ labelling in good faith was excellent and salutary, and I liked your cautious examination of ICH. That balance between recognising the achievements of Victorian collection approaches and noting the readings they imposed is important, and I enjoyed seeing your delineation."

    Paul Cowdell,
    ‘A History of Folklore’ lead (CoLL, Oxford) and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.