publications

“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”—George Saunders

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helen rye

  • Fly Away Home, Fuel Anthology  2023
  • One In Twenty-Three, 100 Voices for 100 Years Anthology 2022
  • Transposition, Arts Against Extremism, 2022
  • Reel, Window Anthology, Eggbox, 2021
  • The Lost Girls, Window Anthology, Eggbox, 2021
  • Matt’s Song, A Wild and Precious Life Anthology, 2021
  • Everything Would Be Fine If The Family Would Just Calm Down, Lighthouse Literary Journal, 2021
  • Chapter/Module on One In Twenty-Three, Cambridge University Press Lower Secondary English Textbook, 2021
  • The Diamond Factory, The Best Small Fictions 2020, Sonder Press, 2020
  • Bath Time, Root, Branch, Tree Anthology, 2020
  • Lo Que Vieron Los Unicornios (What The Unicorns Saw, tr. Spanish by María Cecilia de la Vega, INSTANTÁNEASDE FICCIÓN Selección de microcuentos, Vol. 2, 2019
  • Can Mayor (Canis Major), tr. Spanish by María Cecilia de la Vega, INSTANTÁNEASDE FICCIÓN Selección de microcuentos, Vol. 2, 2019
  • Charlotte All The Time, Flash Fiction Festival Three Anthology, 2019
  • Canis Major, Flash Flood Journal, 2019
  • You Don’t Have To Be An All-Knowing God Of The Roman Pantheon To Work Here (And It Doesn’t Really Help), And We Pass Through Anthology, 2019
  • Flat Pack, Ink, Sweat, and Tears (National Flash Fiction Day Story) 2019
  • What The Unicorns Saw, Atticus Review, 2019
  • The Diamond Factory, matchbook litmag, 2019
  • Transposition, The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2018 (Third Prize), 2018
  • The Girl Who Eats Light Bulbs, New Flash Fiction Review, 2018
  • Aerial, Flash Flood, 2018Me ‘N’ Claudz Of A Saturday Night Down The Chippy And The Oasis Bar, Ripening Anthology, 2018
  • Reunion, Ellipsis Two Anthology, 2018
  • Holy Night, Open Pen (Christmas Eve Story), 2017
  • Fly Away Home, Reflex Fiction (First Prize), 2017
  • How To Tell A Kestrel From A Hawk, Short Édition (airport story dispenser machines), 2017
  • No Lightning, Short Édition (airport story dispenser machines), 2017
  • BBC4, 9pm—The Role of DNA in Ageing, Connotation Press, 2017
  • Canis Major, Connotation Press, 2017
  • Whiteout, (B)oink Zine, 2017
  • Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour, Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour anthology, 2017
  • On the Union Pacific Railroad, Flash Frontier, 2017
  • One In Twenty-Three, translated by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Bay Lên Anthology, 2017
  • One In Twenty-Three, translated by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai,

    Hànộimới (national newspaper of Vietnam), 2017

  • One In Twenty-Three, The Bath Flash Fiction Award and To Carry Her Home Anthology (First Prize), 2016

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