Rachel Smith

Rachel's work has been published in Landfall, Mayhem, Flash Boulevard, Dribble Drabble Review, Gooseberry Pie, JAAM, takahē, Reflex Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, Catalyst, Geometry, Headland, Love in the time of COVID, Ellipsis Zine, The Phare, Cheap Pop, Flash Frontier, Spelk, Ghost Parachute, Oscen, Meniscus and Flash Flood UK.

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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

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

The Rain Around Here

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

• 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

• The Best Small Fictions, 2020

• 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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