Rachel Smith

Rachel's work has been published in:

Aotearoa - Landfall, Mayhem, Oscen, Meniscus, JAAM, takahē, Geometry, Headland, Love in the time of COVID, Catalyst

International - Flash Boulevard, Dribble Drabble Review, Gooseberry Pie, Reflex Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, Ellipsis Zine, The Phare, Cheap Pop, Spelk, Ghost Parachute, Flash Flood UK, Paragraph Planet

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Read some of her favourites.... 

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Flash Fiction

When Winter Comes

And no one's really sure who's lettin' go today

What I Now Know

The Whole World In His Hands

What We Do On A Night Like This

Saturday afternoon at the beach

How to Mend a Broken Heart

It's a Long Way from Here to There and Back Again

How The Days Turn

When Mary Dances

How to Make a Necklace from a Dead Bird

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Short Fiction

A Nice Bloke  - takahē

Buttercups & Bullets - Headland

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Poetry

In Conversation with Brian - Poetry for the Planet (Litoria Press)

In the Beginning - Love in the Time of COVID

Fishing - Catalyst, Volume 14

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Scriptwriter

Stranded Pearl, feature film released in NZ cinemas, 2024. Read review here

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Collections and Anthologies

• Short Poto (Massey University Press)

• The Best Small Fictions, 2020 and 2025

• Best Women's Short Fiction Anthology, Mslexia (UK), 2024

• Ōtautahi is Flash, WORD Christchurch & At The Bay I Te Kokoru, 2024. Listen here

• a liminal gathering - Elixir & Star Grief Almanac 2023

• A Cluster of Lights, 2023

• Poetry for the Planet - An Anthology of Imagined Futures, 2021

• Ghost Parachute – 105 Flash Fiction Stories, 2021

• Best Microfiction, 2019

• with one eye on the cows, Bath Flash Fiction Volume 4, 2019

• Bonsai - Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018. Canterbury University Press

• things left and found by the side of the road - Bath Flash Fiction Volume Three, 2018

• Barely Casting a Shadow - Reflex Fiction Volume One, 2017

• KIVA - Collection One.

       Contemporary Writing from the Cook Islands, 2015

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Competitions and Awards

2024

• Shortlist - Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition 

2021

• NZSA CompleteMS (manuscript assessment) recipient

• Longlist - Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition

• Longlist - Reflex Fiction, Autumn 

2020

• Shortlist – Micro Madness, NZ National Flash Fiction Day

2019

• Highly commended - North & South short short story competition

• Shortlist and Longlist Bath Flash Fiction Award

• Pushcart Nomination by Flash Frontier for What I Now Know

2018

• Shortlist - Bath Flash Fiction Award

• Shortlist - TSS Flash Fiction 400, winter 2018

• Shortlist – Micro Madness, NZ National Flash Fiction Day

​2017

• Second Place - NZ National Flash Fiction Day 

• Shortlist - Reflex Fiction Spring 2017

2016

• Commended and long listed - NZ National Flash Fiction Day 

• ​Flash Frontier Winter Writing Award

• Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2017

2014 

• Longlist - NZ National Flash Fiction Day

• Longlist - Takahe Short Fiction Competition

 

            

 

 

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