This has been on and off my little space online for over 20 years, throughout the upheavals of moving off various social media platforms, and changes in jobs, studies and life events and it has been the place I've kept a list of my publications since 2017. The time has come for an update so I'm trying out a new website.
Find me now at rosaleenlynch.com. ☺️
My stories are mostly from writing in the margins, between work, life & everything.
Stories also forthcoming in
Apologies for any older dead links. One of these days I'll sort them out, just like all the pieces I need to edit. But seriously, it you can't find a story and would like to read it, send me a message & I'll send you a link or a copy.
November 2025
⏩ Margate Sands - Shortlisted in the Walk Listen Create 'Write About Walking' competition with the theme this year of 'Walking In The Dark' in support of the global action 'Women walking, the City, at Night.'
⏩ The Asterisks of Parliament Square - Shortlisted in the Walk Listen Create 2025 Competition.
October 2025
⏩ Dead Bodies of Water - Flash Contest Finalist published by Peatsmoke Journal.
⏩ The Suitcase of Lost Belongings published in Milk Candy Review.
September 2025
⏩ 'This is Not a Story About More' , longlisted in Leicester Writes Short Story Prize & published in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2025 by Dahlia Books (Print).
August 2025
⏩ Dictionary of Days in Liars League - performed by Margaret Ashley
June 2025
⏩ 'The Alligator Girls of Shangri-La', in 'Monsoon' - the Seasons themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025 (Print)
⏩ 'In the Imaginary Beauty Salons of Afghanistan', in the Bath Flash Fiction Award anthology Vol. 9: The Constancy of Woodpidgeons' published by Ad Hoc Fiction.
May 2025
⏩ 'Gold' , in Issue #60: Seeds published by Blink Ink (Print)
⏩ 'Red', in Issue #60: Seeds published by Blink Ink (Print)
April 2025
⏩ 'The Street Party at the End of the World' - Milton Keynes Literary festival competition 2025 winner (Print).
⏩ 'Women Who Won't' in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 7, published by Ad Hoc Fiction (Print).
January 2025
⏩ 'At Weekends Mama's Carnivore' in the Best Small Fictions 2024 published by Alternating Current Press (Print).
December 2024
⏩ Peace Offerings published by Paragraph Planet.
⏩ This Christmas Story in the Sad Christmas Series published by X-R-A-Y Lit.
November 2024
⏩ Sweet Briar Lane in Issue 2 of Propelling Pencil.
September 2024
⏩ 'The Observational Bias of Love' , shortlisted in Leicester Writes Short Story Prize & published in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2024 by Dahlia Books.(Print).
⏩ 'Postcards From the Boathouse' , longlisted in Leicester Writes & published in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2024 by Dahlia Books.(Print).
⏩ A Chandelier of Citrus Skins in Issue 103 of Mslexia (Print).
July 2024
⏩ Skin Beetles in Best of the Net 2024 Anthology (originally published in Janus Literary)
June 2024
⏩ The Four O'Clock Shop in Issue 3 of The Mersey Review
⏩ Rewilding in the National Flash Fiction Day Write-in 2024
⏩ I Meet Myself Coming Back in National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2024
⏩ 'White Noise' (Editor's Choice) in 'Tiny Sparks Everywhere' - the Elements themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2024 (Print)
April 2024
⏩ Mama’s Cupcake Recipe (All a Stoner Girl Needs at Night) published by Bending Genres
February 2024
⏩ 'Three Reasons Why Killer Whales Kill Porpoises But Don’t Eat Them' in Swansong, Issue 14, published by Ellipsis Zine
January 2024
⏩ 'A Rope Hangs Waiting' in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 6, published by Ad Hoc Fiction
December 2023
⏩ Gone in Mslexia's Best Women's Short Fiction 2023
November 2023
⏩ Ceiling Projections For Late Stage Souperism 2nd place in the Propelling Pencil Flash Fiction Competition.
⏩ The Back Road and the Kissing Gate shortlisted by the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Prize & published in Solemates and Other Stories by the Scottish Arts Trust
October 2023
⏩ When You're Gone I Practice for When You're Dead in Issue 31 of New Flash Fiction Review
August 2023
⏩ At Weekends Mama's Carnivore in Issue 3 of RUBY Literary Magazine
July 2023
⏩ The Zoo is Empty Tuesdays in The Phare Summer Issue 2023.
June 2023
⏩ The Princess and the Blankets in National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2023
⏩ 'Ember Days' in 'Scratching the Sands' - the Time themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023 (Print)
⏩ 'Scheele's Green' in 'Scratching the Sands' - the Time themed National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023 (Print)
March 2023
⏩ Skin Beetles in Janus Literary
⏩ CHAW in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 5, published by Ad Hoc Fiction
⏩ 'How Alexa Gets Pregnant and Chooses Abortion' in Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol 5, published by Ad Hoc Fiction
February 2023
⏩ 'Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine' in Fuel a fuel poverty charity anthology of 75 prize winning stories.
⏩ The Back Road and the Kissing Gate shortlisted by the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Prize
January 2023
⏩ Making Marys in Atlas and Alice
⏩ I Give After-Christmas-Presents in Paragraph Planet
December 2022
⏩ Dead Elves in Paragraph Planet
⏩ The Fortune Teller Miracle Fish from the Christmas Cracker Retreat West Christmas themed 12 Days of Stories
November 2022
⏩ Sailing the 7Cs of Flash Fiction - Vancouver Flash Fiction
⏩ 'Turf' in Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Anthology Longlist (Print)
October 2022
⏩ Free-diving Five Hundred Million Years Ago in Quiet Man Dave Prize Shortlist
⏩ 'The Axens of Silver Stag Ridge' in EllipsisZine #12 (Print)
⏩ Every Happy Ending is a Lie in Reflex Fiction longlist
September 2022
⏩ 'What My Therapist Calls Grounding to Calm My Anxious Body' in A Cast of Crabs anthology from Retreat West (Print)
⏩ The Mechanical Forest at the End of the World - Splonk
August 2022
⏩ Cup of Joe - HAD 💀
⏩ The Pigeon-Pea Princess of Sanganakallu - Fractured Lit
⏩ The Watchtower Seasons - New Flash Fiction Review
July 2022
⏩ What if Your Mother was the Woman Next Door - Ellipsis Zine
June 2022
⏩ :A Sin to See Through Glass' in National Flash Fiction Day 'Freedom' Anthology (Print)
⏩ FRAKTA National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood 2022
⏩ 'The Measure of You' in Crossing The Tees Flash Mob Anthology
⏩ 'Gummy Bears' - Tower Hamlets winner published in City of Stories Home anthology by Spread the Word
May 2022
⏩ The Fish Tank Mangroves Canopy - Urban Tree Festival runner-up
⏩ The Norwegian Spruce Seeds of the Svalbard Vault Urban Tree Festival Longlist
April 2022
⏩ Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology (print)
⏩ CHAW Great Flash Fiction Festival Throwdown (Winner)
⏩ The Life Cycle of Fire & Note Craft
⏩ Stick and Poke Reflex Fiction (Longlist)
March 2022
⏩ Per Procurationem Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, Volume 4
⏩ Recipe for Sustenance to avoid the End of the World as We Know it with Fresh Roles Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, Volume 4 (Technical Challenge Winner)
⏩ The Almost-kiss Tiny Molecules
⏩ The Animals of Göbekli Tepe & Podcast The Phare
⏩ Always Sunset Retreat West Flash Festival Competition
⏩ The Tucana Constellation of the Southern Skies Walk Listen Create
⏩ Torn EllipsisZine
February 2022
⏩ The Soapstone Girl Dances Paragraph Planet
⏩ Spill Reflex Fiction (Longlist)
December 2021
⏩ Plink Paragraph Planet
⏩ Our Lady of Perpetual Plastic & Smoke & Mirrors interview Smokelong Quarterly
⏩ Duct Tape Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology (Print) Longlist
⏩ Hail Bath Short Story Award 2021 Anthology (Print) Shortlist
November 2021
⏩ Eclipsed Spread the Word & London Wildlife Trust This is Our Place Anthology (Print & Download)
⏩ A Portrait of War and Love Ellipsiszine#10 (Print)
⏩ Woodbine Reflex Fiction Autumn 2021 Flash Fiction Competition (4th place)
⏩ The Animals of Göbekli Tepe The Phare Literary Magazine
⏩ The Acorns of Bartlett Park Sydney Gardens Park Bath Tree Weekender prose competition winner. Check out Longlist here.
⏩ Born Free Paragraph Planet
⏩ Night Bathing Highlands and Islands Short Story Association (HISSAC) Flash Fiction Winner
October 2021
⏩ Guys I Meet Before I Die Half Empty Magazine - Sweet & Sour Issue
⏩ Watermelon Metropolis Litro Magazine - Nature Issue
⏩ Mixtape for an Amusiac Sledgehammer Literary Journal
⏩ Three Hours and Seven Minutes Reflex Fiction Longlist
⏩ I Am Coin EllipsisZine
September 2021
⏩ Convenience Store Babies Janus Literary Issue 5
⏩ My Velcro Baby Retreat West Festival Micro Competition Winner
⏩ The Girl with the Farrah Fawcett Hair Emerge Literary Journal
⏩ We're playing doctors and nurses.... Paragraph Planet
⏩ Turtle on the Dotted Line Reflex Fiction
⏩ Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Winner
August 2021
⏩ Killing Flies Scissors & Spackle (Emerge Literary Journal)
⏩ Watering the Garden at 4am The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang presents 'Millipede Ranch' from Blink Ink (Print)
July 2021
⏩ Babies Falling from the Sky Crack the Spine Anthology: The Year 2020 (Print)
⏩ Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner
⏩ Stain Rejection Letters
⏩ Don't Tell Me What to Wear Paragraph Planet
⏩ Leaving Him Ellipsis Zine Issue #9 (Print)
June 2021
⏩ The Soft Th Janus Literary
⏩ No Birds' Nests in the Tree Next Door NFFD Flash Flood Journal
⏩ Cardiac Ablation 50 Word Stories
⏩ Contact Lenses in Beguiled by a Wild Thing Anthology Reflex Press (Print)
May 2021
⏩ In the Other's Mouth Emerge Literary Journal
⏩ The Alligator Clock Ellipsis Zine
⏩ The Recovery Position The Daily Drunk Magazine
April 2021
⏩ Under the Kitchen Table SVJ Schuylkill Valley Journal
⏩ Trespass to the Person Versification Misfit Micros
⏩ A Body of Water Reflex Fiction
March 2021
⏩ Orphan Negative Paragraph Planet
⏩ White Line Gone Lawn
⏩ Forced Moulting Gone Lawn
⏩ Like Rain Blues Doodles
February 2021
⏩ She Leaves Offerings on Doorsteps Schuylkill Valley Journal (Print)
⏩ The Unbirthday at the Border Schuylkill Valley Journal (Print)
⏩ There is no Ocean in the Bucket Schuylkill Valley Journal (Print)
⏩ Rot Reflex Fiction
January 2021
⏩ Meat Raffle Janus Literary Journal
⏩ I Wear Other People EllipsisZine
⏩ Providing Opportunities For Another to Excel 50 - Word Stories
⏩ On the 11th day of Christmas Paragraph Planet
December 2020
⏩ Sowing Sea Meadows Litro
⏩ The Man I Live With The Hunterian - Alcohol in the Archives Journal
⏩ How I Wonder Friday Flash Fiction
⏩ Pine Friday Flash Fiction
⏩ Between Rivers City Lit Anthology: Between the Lines 2020 (Print & Ebook )
⏩ Menhirs Friday Flash Fiction
November 2020
⏩ The Black-lacquered Bowl Fudoki
⏩ The Succulent 50 - Word Stories
⏩ Beans Mum Life Stories - Competition & Anthology
October 2020
⏩ The Indentation of Pearls Hysteria 21 - Competition and Anthology
⏩ Dear Joy Friday Flash Fiction
⏩ The Proper Respect for Water London Independent Story Prize
⏩ Bubble-wrap and Brown Paper Virtualzine
September 2020
⏩ Cloudburst '72 The London Reader - Cyberpunk 2020 1ssue
⏩ Contact Lenses Reflex Fiction Longlist
⏩ Connected Paragraph Planet
⏩ Overcharged with Dead Mslexia Issue #87 (Print)
August 2020
⏩ Remington Made Typewriters Friday Flash Fiction
⏩ Paper Cranes 50 - Word Stories
⏩ Duck and Cover Liars League - Performed by Lin Sagovsky
⏩ Landed My First Kick-flip Paragraph Planet
July 2020
⏩ Covid Time Capsule Items List (Archive Copy) 100 Words of Solitude - Life in the Time of Corona
⏩ a measurement of silence in one hundred words Fish Publishing - Lockdown Prize & Anthology - Third Place
June 2020
⏩ The Berlin Heart Paper and Ink Literary Zine #16 - The Rebellion Issue (Print)
⏩ Circle Time Bridge House Publishing - Waterloo Festival Competition Anthology
⏩ Rubin's Vase NFFD Flash Flood Journal
May 2020
⏩ The Karma Economy Crack the Spine: The Year Anthology (Print)
April 2020
⏩ 7 Photos Lie on My Mother's Body Thorn Literary Magazine
⏩ Rising and Falling with the Sea Thorn Literary Magazine
⏩ The Birthday Cake Approaches Paragraph Planet
⏩ Tulips for the Homeless Reflex Fiction
March 2020
⏩ The Room on the Ledge The Wellington Review Issue #5
⏩ The Cubital Fossa EllipsisZine Issue #7: She Cries Honey Anthology (Print)
⏩ Other Uses for a Woman's Body Lunate International Women's Day Micro Competition Winner
⏩ Life Sentence Mslexia: Issue #85 (Print)
February 2020
⏩ Pancakes Paragraph Planet
⏩ Harvest Crack the Spine: Neighbours Anthology (Print)
Pre 2020
⏩ Fruit is the New Gold Paragraph Planet
⏩ Submarine Jellyfish Review: Issue #51 Metalheads
⏩ Red Grass The London Reader: The Motherhood Issue (Print)
⏩ My Father the Somniloquist Short Edition: Online and Story Dispensers
⏩ Flamingos of the Salinas Spread the Word: City of Stories Anthology (Print)
⏩ My Mother Left Me for a Tree Retreat West: Word for Freedom - Anthology Celebrating 100 years of Women's Suffrage (Print)
⏩ The Old Man and The Balloon - The Magnolia Review - Balloon Issue
⏩ Under the Gaze of the Lion EllipsisZine
⏩ Rusted Paper and Ink Literary Zine # - The Punk Issue (Print)
⏩ The Shop of Preserved Curiosities Dear Damsels - Curiosity Issue
⏩ Soul Brothers - NFFD Flash Flood Journal
⏩ Lost Words - Friday Flash Fiction
Delighted to have my story in Best Small Fictions 2024 out now. Check out my story At Weekends Mama's Carmivore in its original publication Ruby literary magazine.
Check out some of my online flash fiction which
includes nature, growth in all its connotations and climate concerns
around weather, environment, migration, mental health, fertility, cycles
and inequality. From 50 words anthropomorphising a succulent to
speculative fiction about babies sold in convenience stores or houses
with built-in skies.
🌴 The Fish Tank Mangroves Canopy - Urban Tree Festival Shortlist
🌴 The Norwegian Spruce Seeds of the Svalbard Vault UTF Longlist
🌴 The Life Cycle of Fire & Note Craft
🌴 The Animals of Göbekli Tepe The Phare Podcast
🌴 Always Sunset Retreat West Flash Festival Competition
🌴 Plink Paragraph Planet
🌴 Our Lady of Perpetual Plastic & Smoke & Mirrors interview Smokelong Quarterly
🌴 Eclipsed Spread the Word & London Wildlife Trust This is Our Place Anthology
🌴 Woodbine Reflex Fiction Autumn 2021 Flash Fiction Competition (4th place)
🌴 The Acorns of Bartlett Park Sydney Gardens Park Bath Tree Weekender prose winner.
🌴 Watermelon Metropolis Litro Magazine - Nature Issue
🌴 Convenience Store Babies Janus Literary Issue 5
🌴 Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Winner
🌴 No Birds' Nests in the Tree Next Door NFFD Flash Flood Journal
🌴 Sowing Sea Meadows Litro
🌴 The Succulent 50 - Word Stories
🌴 Tulips for the Homeless Reflex Fiction
🌴 Other Uses for a Woman's Body Lunate Int. Women's Day Micro Competition Winner
