Poetry
Rachel’s debut pamphlet, Prickle, was released by flipped eye publishing in 2025 and has been shortlisted in the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award 2026.
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Awards and Commendations
Prickle (shortlisted, Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Award)
‘No Good News Today’ (Highly Commended, Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2023)
‘Portrait of a Girl as Spinach’ and ‘The Year Prickled’ (Commended, Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
‘things which make my life difficult and my writing bad’ (Commended, Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
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Print Publications
Prickle (flipped eye publishing)
‘Portrait of a Girl as Spinach’ and ‘The Year Prickled’ in a cough of pollen - Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 anthology selected by Zaffar Kunial (Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
‘Facebook Marketplace in Dreams’ in Issue 68 (The North Magazine)
‘Cutting’ and ‘The Patient’ in Articulations for Keeping the Light In (flipped eye publishing)
‘.Net (Extracts)’ in SMEOP (Black Sunflowers Press)
‘things which make my life difficult and my writing bad’ in So we go about our days: The winning and commended entries in the 2021 Winchester Poetry Prize selected by Jacqueline Saphra (Winchester Poetry Festival)
‘6 – 31st August – Fragments’ and ‘Discharge’ in Issue #3 (ACHE Magazine)
‘Four Poems’ in UEA Poetry Anthology 2019 (Egg Box Publishing)
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Online Publications
‘The Cat Sitter Didn’t’, ‘Warm Weather’, ‘Ledge’ and ‘Muted’ in Edition 14 (Northern Gravy)
‘Spread’ in Issue 2 (And Other Poems)
‘Streaming & other poems’ in Issue 9 – Technology (Tentacular)
‘It is November 1st in New Cross and’ featured in the ‘Write Across London’ digital exhibit (Royal Society of Literature)
‘Back to Work’ (Ink, Sweat & Tears)
‘A Good Age to Go’ in SPAM002 (Spam zine & Press, 2021)
‘You Must Say No’ in Care in a Pandemic Zine (The Feminist Library, 2020)
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Readings
In Response to Noah Davis in collaboration with Claudia Rankine (Barbican Centre, 2025)
Almost Like Falling in Love (Somerset House Studios, 2024)
Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition Prize Ceremony (Manchester Cathedral, 2024)
Winchester Poetry Festival Awards Ceremony (Winchester Poetry Festival, 2023)
Yer Bard (Dash the Henge, 2023)
Young Barbican Night: Rebel Rebel (The Barbican Centre, 2022)
BBC Words First: Digital Showcase (Apples and Snakes, 2020)
The Writing Room Showcase (Freeword Centre, 2020)
UEA Live (The National Centre for Writing, 2019)
The Social (BBC Radio Norfolk, 2019)
Takeover Festival (Rich Mix, 2018)
Jawdance (Rich Mix, 2018)
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Press
In Conversation with the Michael Marks Award
Interviewed for the ‘A Poet’s Work’ newsletter
‘Cin, Cassidy and Mortimer shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize’ (The Bookseller)
Interview: ‘Being a Young Creative’ (Nothing Conrete, The Barbican Centre)
‘Flipped eye joins forces with The Barbican for young poets anthology’ (The Bookseller)