Helen RyeApr 12, 20181 minInterviewing Christopher Allen for Gatehouse PressGatehouse Press publish the beautiful quarterly print journal, Lighthouse (check out their font, a digitisation of a vintage typeface –...
Helen RyeApr 1, 20181 minInterview at NITRB The lovely humans and other exotic creature creatives at Nothing In The Rule Book asked me for an interview. Here it...
Helen RyeMar 26, 20181 minOne In Twenty-Three In Bay Len (Taking Flight) Anthology A few months ago I got an email that made me cry (in a good way). It was from the award-winning Vietnamese poet, translator and author...
Helen RyeMar 1, 20181 minBook Launch Party for Other Household Toxins by Christopher AllenIf you love short stories/flash fiction and live near Norwich, UK, we’re holding a book launch for this outstanding collection on...
Helen RyeFeb 28, 20182 minReading With The Psychedelic CircusI’m quite new to public readings, so it may be that I’m just not familiar with how things generally go. But I’m willing to bet,...
Helen RyeJan 19, 20181 minEllipsis Two AnthologyLovely news this week that my story, Reunion – inspired by a reunion with my best friend from school a few months back in which we...
Helen RyeJan 19, 20181 minBest Small Fictions NominationI was off social media for most of Monday (a situation that usually makes friends panic that I might have died) and so it wasn’t until...
Helen RyeDec 24, 20171 minAn Open Pen ChristmasThrilled to have my downbeat micro flash, Holy Night, chosen by Open Pen London litmag to be the Christmas Eve story in their Twelve Days...
Helen RyeDec 21, 20171 minShort Edition Short Story DispenserEdmonton airport travellers can read free short stories while waiting for flight A few months ago I was approached by Canada-based writer...
Helen RyeNov 24, 20171 minConnotation Press PublicationsVery happy to have two stories up in this month’s Connotation Press, one started in a Kathy Fish Fast Flash class, the other from a...
Helen RyeNov 20, 20171 min(b)OINK Zine – WhiteoutThis story started in a Meg Pokrass Facebook class – highly recommended, by the way, and terrific fun. Meg’s prompts are left-field and...
Helen RyeNov 3, 20172 minA Wild And Precious Life - Recovery AnthologyOctober 10th brought a special writing acceptance for me: a prose poem, the first I’ve ever sent out, one of the only ones I've ever...
Helen RyeNov 3, 20171 minTwo Days, Two SubsI spent the last couple of months working on a thing I really wanted to apply for, trying very hard to write The Best Story I Have Ever...
Helen RyeOct 16, 20171 minInterview at Zero FlashA month or so ago I was asked to do an interview for Zero Flash magazine – here. It was published on 2nd October, a couple of days after...
Helen RyeSep 29, 20171 minReflex Fiction Contest - First Prize!I won a thing! I’m pretty happy about it (for which read super-delighted; might have jumped up and down in the street a bit). The...
Helen RyeJul 3, 20171 minOne In Twenty-Three: Nguyen Phan Que Mai's Translation Published in Hanoi MoiEarlier in the year I received a message from the award-winning poet and translator, Nguyen Phan Que Mai . She had read the story that...
Helen RyeJun 25, 20171 minBath Flash Fiction Festival Reading 2017I was honoured and terrified in roughly equal measure to be asked to read Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour at the launch of the National Flash...
Helen RyeJun 23, 20171 minSleep Is A Beautiful Colour in Tino Prinzi's Top Ten Funny Flash Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour, my story chosen as the title for the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2017, was included in Tino...
Helen RyeOct 31, 20161 minInterview for The Bath Flash Fiction AwardThis is from October 2016. I’d never done an interview before, and I'd never had a story published before—it was only the second time I'd...