Achievements

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

Podcast Features

Tall Tale TV - "Star Status"

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

Read Lots Write Lots - Episode 37. Special 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”

Published Short Stories

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

Published Flash Fiction

Secret Attic - "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

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”