Founder, Editor and
All-Round Binbody
Trash Cat
JP RELPH lives and writes short fiction in Northwest Cumbria (UK) with little to no assistance from three cats and a chronic health condition. Tea helps, milk first.
As do videos of cats and their trash brethren. She runs all the sticky bin-parts of Trash Cat Lit from her couch.
JP has a Bachelor’s degree in forensic science which she taps into to make her dark stories and hermit flash more authentic. She often writes about microbes, insects and botany, zombies and cryptids, and loves using colour in her stories.
She also frequents charity shops where she sources haunted objects and finds stories in the treasures on the shelves.
JP’s debut collection of post-apocalyptic fiction – Know That We Held – is published with Alien Buddha Press. Her novella – WATCHER – a pacy thriller with supernatural elements and cowritten with Mathew Gostelow, was the first book to be published by JPs indie publishing arm, Wolf Park Press. In 2025, she released two collections of her published short fiction – One For Sorrow and Sick Ink which combined contain 65 flash and short stories.
JPs stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions.
Links to publications are on her website – The Relphian
In 2023, JP won The Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster and that story went on to make the 2024 Wigleaf longlist – which remains maybe the best thing she’s achieved, ever.
Find all her social media stuff on her Linktree
JP’s Personal Mission for Trash Cat Lit
To read every story that is submitted to a call, knowing how scary it can be to send your work into the publishing world, especially as a new writer.
To encourage and support new writers as well as those more established storytellers.
To work collaboratively with writers on any edits for their work.
To provide clear and concise notifications and communications so writers remain informed and encouraged.
To build a community, a Trash Family, of writers whose words get under her skin, inside her head and heart, and simply have to be shared.
Trash Backup
Helping out behind the scenes, with occasional reading, Guest Reading and providing their dulcet tones to produce audio versions of contributor stories, are some special Trash Pals. Go check out their writing.
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