Writing

Short Stories

Prizes

‘High-Intensity Interval Training’ – winner of the 2022 Hammond House International Literary Prize; longlisted for the 2022 Retreat West Short Story Prize.  

‘Uffington’ – winner of the 2021 HISSAC Short Story Prize; longlisted for the 2021 Cambridge Short Story Prize.

‘The Final Front Ear’ – shortlisted for the 2023 Plaza Prize

‘Nul Points’ – shortlisted for the 2022 Exeter Story Prize

‘Hillman’s Imp’ – shortlisted for the 2020 H.G. Wells Short Story Competition; published in the anthology Vision, edited by Liz Joyce and Tony Scofield.

Publications

‘Ghost Walks’ – republished in Best British Short Stories 2025

‘Hillman’s Imp’ – republished online at Bulb Culture Collective.

‘The Hole’ – republished online at Fiction on the Web

‘Ghost Walks’ – published in the Fiction Desk anthology Inside Voices. Available to buy here: https://www.thefictiondesk.com/anthologies/inside-voices.php

‘Removals’ – published by Nightjar Press; buy here: https://nightjarpress.weebly.com

‘Notes on a “Masterpiece”‘ – Willesden Herald Story of the Month

‘Eastbound, Westbound’ – Lighthouse

‘Upper Kutz’ – Structo

‘High-Intensity Interval Training’ – published in the Hammond House anthology Changes

‘Outage’ – published in the Seventy2One anthology Sunburnt Saints, edited by Andrew Leach and Hannah Persaud

‘View From the Top’ – Reflex Press

‘The Kid’ – Storgy

‘Stub’ – Lucent Dreaming

‘White-Out’ – The Mechanics Institute Review Online

‘The Last Summer’ – Ellipsis Zine

‘The Hole’ – The Mechanics’ Institute Review 15

‘Antique Pieces’ – Litro

‘Past Performance’ – The Cabinet of Heed

‘Mr DIY’ – Storgy

‘Resignation’ – Staple

‘A New New Forest’ – Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing Volume 2, edited by Nicholas Royle

‘Dance, Misery’ – The May Anthology 1, guest edited by Margaret Drabble

Plays

Gym Bunnies – rehearsed reading performed by The Script Readers at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, March 2018

Table Manners – rehearsed reading performed by Player Playwrights at North London Tavern, Kilburn, January 2017. Longlisted for Bread and Roses Theatre Playwriting Award 2016/17

Being in Uncertainties – awarded third prize, Watford Palace Theatre Young Playwrights Competition

Interviews

I was interviewed at the 2023 Hammond House Literary Festival. View here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAh0lhi6OzA

In conversation with Alex Pearl: https://booksbyalexpearl.weebly.com/iancritchleytalkstoalexpearl.html

Here’s the podcast of the Sunburnt Saints episode of the Chiltern Voice Book Club. I’m on about halfway through, talking about writing, power cuts, When the Wind Blows and Kate Bush: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chiltern-voice-book-club/id1540563708?i=1000543272780