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Stories

2024

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'Orbit', in Flash Fiction Festival Seven (AdHoc Fiction, forthcoming in Dec 2024/Jan 2025). Find out more, here

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Flash Fusion: An anthology of flash fiction and conversations on craft by South Asian writers, co-editor and contributor (Dahlia Publishing, July 2024). Buy it here.  

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'Flash Fiction: Structure Is Your Friend' (Article), in Writers & Artists, May 2024. Read it here.  

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2023

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'Margins', in Flash Fiction Festival Six (AdHoc Fiction, December 2023), pp. 11-12. Buy it here

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'Flash of Inspiration: Gerri Brightwell on "Necessary Measures"' (Interview), in Litro Magazine (June 2023). Read it here.

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'Flash of Inspiration: Pauline Holdsworth on "Demeter Stages an Intervention"' (Interview), in Litro Magazine (March 2023). Read it here.  

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'Proximity', in Tales from the City, ed. by Sara Jafari (TOKEN Magazine, March 2023), pp. 16-128. Buy it here

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'Interview with David Rose' (Interview), for the Word Factory (January 2023). Read it here

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2022

'Everybody', in Best Small Fictions 2022, ed. by Nathan Leslie (Sonder Press, November 2022). Buy it here

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'The Right Fit', in 100 Voices, ed. by Miranda Roszkowski (Unbound, March 2022), pp. 161-163Buy it here.

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2021

'Cherry Blossom in the Park', in This Is Our Place (Spread the Word, November 2021), pp. 99-100. Read it here

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'Anvils and Canals', in Where We Find Ourselves (Arachne Press, October 2021), pp. 35-39. Buy it here

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'Botany Bay', in Litro Magazine (October 2021). Read it here.

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'Why They Say Red and Green Should Never Be Seen', in Visual Verse (Vol. 8, Ch. 12/ October 2021). Read it here

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'Northern Lines - A review of Test Signal: Northern Anthology of New Writing, ed. by Nathan Connolly' (The Word Factory, September 2021). Read it here

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'Everybody', in the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2021 (AdHoc Fiction, June 2021)Find out more here 

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2020

'Velocity', longlisted for The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2020, published in Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Vol. 4 (Dahlia Publishing, 2020)Buy it here 

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'Farhana Khalique on how to keep writing (even when you don’t want to)' (article), on The Word Factory blog on Medium (May 2020). Read it here

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'Chai Tea, Naan Bread' (poem), in The Brown Anthology: Language, edited by Sophia Amina (10:10 Press, 2020), pp. 28-31. Buy it here

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'Chasing Moonbows', in Reflex Press (March 2020). Read it here

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'Searching', in Visual Verse (Vol. 7, Ch. 5/ March 2020). Read it here

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'The New Scarf', in Visual Verse (Vol. 7, Ch. 4/ February 2020). Read it here. 

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2019

'Icebergs', in Litro Magazine (December 2019). Read it here

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'Things to do in the middle of a heatwave during your first trip to Cornwall', in Lighthouse Literary Journal Issue 20, edited by Helen Rye and Christopher Allen (Autumn 2019). Buy it here

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'Baby Elephant', in Popshot Quarterly Issue 25, edited by Matilda Battersby (Autumn 2019), pp. 28, and on ElephantsNever.com (August 2019). Read it here.   

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2018

'The Rights to the City', in Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Three (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2018), p. 48, and online on FlashFlood (June 2020). Read it here

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'Mango Pickle', shortlisted for The Asian Writer Short Story Prize 2018. Find out more here

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'Feathers', winner, in City of Stories 2 (Spread the Word, 2018), pp. 121-122. Find out more here

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'Speaking to Millions' (article), in sister-hood magazine (August, 2018). Read it here

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'Review: Defending the Pencil Factory, by Adam Marek' (Word Factory, February 2018). Read it here

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'Pink and Blue', in The Good Journal Issue 1, edited by Nikesh Shukla (June 2018), pp. 103-109. Buy it here

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2017

'After the Crash', winner of the Word Factory Flash of the Month (December 2017). Read it here. 

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'On the Bridge', highly commended, in City of Stories 1 (Spread the Word, 2017), pp. 130-131. Find out more here

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'Under the Same Sky', in Dividing Lines, edited by Farhana Shaikh (Dahlia Publishing, 2017), pp. 145-161. Buy it here. 

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2016

'Farhana Khalique: Pretty Prose You Can Drink' (Interview), in the Asian Voice (January 2016). Read it here

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2015

'Too Soon', on The Asian Writer (October 2015). Read it here

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2014

'How the Angel Drowned my Spark', in Carillon magazine Issue 40, edited by Graham Rippon (November 2014), pp. 30-31. Find out more here

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'Drink Another Between Night and Blue', in Carillon magazine Issue 39, edited by Graham Rippon (July 2014), pp. 30-31. Find out more here

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2011

'You Are Here Sitting on the Floor Reading a Book and You Look Like the Sun', in Carillon magazine Issue 30, edited by Graham Rippon (July 2011), pp. 66-69. Find out more here

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'Red Shoes', in Carillon magazine Issue 29, edited by Graham Rippon (February 2011), pp. 42-43. Find out more here

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2010

'Southend in January', in Happy Birthday to Me, edited by Farhana Shaikh (Dahlia Publishing, 2010), pp. 69-72. Buy it here

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