“Fried Eggs” – Meniscus
The walls were whispering. Sweet nothings into the part of herself where fried eggs trickled down the kitchen door…
“Knowing” – Flash Frontier
When the knowing became too much, he would leave her. She was cellophane, she was glass, shards missing, the wind whistling through…
“The Land of Buy-What-You-Want” – Flash Fiction Magazine
So many people have those plaques on their letter boxes: No Junk Mail. I don’t get it. I love catalogs…
“Chaz” – AntipodeanSF issue 279
The fella down the road was the first to get a bunker. Chaz. Long hair, longer yarns if you made the mistake of docking eye contact…
“Different” – The Cabinet of Heed
She let me know early on I was not like the other kids. As a five-year-old, Snowball the class budgie comes home to every house but mine…
“Akilter” – Visible Ink #29 ‘The End’
The last journalist signed off from BBC radio at 2.30am London time. It was 11.30am here. Brett and I had his workmates over for Coronas and party pies…
AWARDS
AAWP x UWRF Emerging Writers’ Prize for Prose — 2025 competition
Commended for my short story.
Sydney Hammond Short Story Competition — 2024 competition
Shortlisted for my short story.
Published in the 2024 anthology, The Look That Said It All.
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize — winter 2024 competition
Shortlisted for my flash fiction piece.
Published in the 2024 anthology, Jigsaw Pieces.
Scarlet Stiletto Awards — 2023 competition
Shortlisted for my crime short story ‘Needs Must’.
Glimmer Press ‘FUTURES’ Prize — 2022 competition
Shortlisted for my flash fiction piece ‘Neverland and Nirvana’.
Published in the 2024 anthology, FUTURES.
Berry Writers Festival Flash Fiction Competition — 2022 competition
Shortlisted for my flash fiction piece.
Flash 500 Flash Fiction — quarter 4, 2021 competition
Longlisted for my flash fiction piece.
Sydney Hammond Short Story Competition — 2021 competition
Longlisted for my short story.
Published in the 2021 anthology, Jump: The Time is Now.
Peter Cowan 600 — 2019 competition
Highly commended for two stories.
Rebecca Douglas | Award-winning Adelaide writer 