N.B. I adopted my fabulous pen name in 2022, prior to that I published as Rachel Smith

Short Stories

Northern Gravy - "Honey for the Soul"

JAKE - "The Pendulum Swings for No One"

Tangerine - "Making Tracks"

Quillkeepers Press - "Dust in the Wind"

The Ulu Review - "Rain Queen"

Off Topic Publishing - "Razor Blades Sheathed in Velvet"

CultureCult Press - The CultureCult Casebook anthology "The Murder of Elizabeth Davenport"  

Wicked Shadow Press - Soulmate Syndrome anthology "The Glasshouse"

Secret Attic (now Fictionette) - "The Right Ingredients", “Why One Shouldn’t Spy on a Mobster’s Funeral”, “The Mirror of Youth” and “Wrong number”

Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction - "Under My Skin"

Flash Fiction North - "The Blast Radius of Buttercream Frosting"

Secret Attic (now Fictionette) - "The River's Course", “Secrets and Smoking”, “Sins of the Father”, “Neighbourhood Watch”, "What Jason Didn’t Expect”, "Deborah’s Ghost”, “Last Words”, “Choosing to Believe”, “Playing with Your Food”, “Mr Slate”, “Edwina’s New Quarry”, “A Second Chance”, “The Last Voyage”, “A Rock and a Hard Place”, “Inaction Speaks Louder”, “Global Architects” and “An Easy Mistake”

Finalist / Shortlist

HM in NYC Midnight's 500-word competition 2024 "Under my Skin"

HM in NYC Midnight's 500-word competition 2023 "Let there be Darkness"

Runner-up in Writer's Playground short story competition 2023 "A Mother's Vigil"

Shortlisted for the Olga Sinclair Prize 2023 "In Your Element"

Finalist in NYC midnight's 100-word competition 2023 "Surfacing"

Finalist in Globe Soup’s 7-Day story writing challenge “The Glasshouse”

Shortlisted on Reedsy Prompts “The End of the Line”, “Rewind”, “The Threads that Hold Us Together”, “Star Status” and "Emotional Intelligence”

Podcast Features

Storytime with Writer's Playground - "A Mother's Vigil"

Tall Tale TV - "Star Status"

The Book Slam - Joint writing discussion on "The Power of Objects"

Read Lots Write Lots - Episode 52. Globe Soup Winners joint interview

Read Lots Write Lots - Episode 37. Globe Soup Winners joint interview

Blue Marble Storytellers - “Emotional Intelligence”

Read Lots Write Lots - Episode 14. Interview

Mark Wilhelm’s Frightening Tales - “Beneath the Sand”

Short Stack Stories - “Phoenix”