Publications & Awards

2024

• The Forbidden Shed | Long-Listed in the Katherine Mansfiled Sparkeling Prose competition atthebay.org/sue-kingham-the-forbidden-shed/ | November 2024
• Danilo’s Grandad is Weird | Highly Commended in the National Flash Fiction Day competition | June 2024 
• Growl | Issue 6:Renaissance Hagley Writers’ Institute Anthology | March 2024

2023

• Dyslexia. Wrestling with an Octopus (pen name Beth Beamish) audiobook  October 2023  https://open.spotify.com/show/7IakVjXTSpQwW9RJmPJU6Z
• Swimming | Bath Flash Fiction anthology | December 2023 

2021

• The Question | Published in Horizons 5 winners from the Page & Blackmore short story competition |
  December 2021 http://www.topwriters.co.nz/horizons-5-order.html
• My Life in Laundry | The Quick Brown Dog | November 2021
• Vicious Little Bastards | Flash Frontier  | August 2021 https://www.flash-frontier.com/august2021kai/​
• Sharp Practice | Shortlisted for the Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story Competition  | March 2021 

2020

• Dyslexia. Wrestling with an Octopus (pen name Beth Beamish) |
  December 2020 https://linktr.ee/dyslexiaoctopus​
• My Family in Fridge Magnets | The Quick Brown Dog |September 2020
• Home Sweet Home | The Quick Brown Dog | September 2020
• Little Sparks | Flash Frontier | July 2020 https://www.flash-frontier.com/july-2020-matariki/#sparks
• Little Scholar | Shortlisted for the ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards,’ hosted by Ireland Writing Retreat | 
  July 2020 https://www.irelandwritingretreat.com/post/from-scholars-to-funeral-sandwiches
• The Question | Commended in the Page & Blackmore short story competition |
  ​May 2020  http://www.topwriters.co.nz/2020-stories.ht​​

2019

• The Art of Falling in Love | RWNZ Liaisons Magazine  | August 2019 https://www.romancewriters.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LIAISONS-2019-master-emoji-copy.pdf
• My Guiding Light| Romance Writers of New Zealand, Great Beginnings Contest, 2nd place  | August 2019
• Reef Raiders | Birdcatcher Books, Children’s Adventure Story Anthology  | July 2019​
• My Father, the Accountant | Long-listed, National Flash Fiction Day  |  June 2019
• Melt Down | Highly commended in the Cambridge Autumn Festival   | April 2019
• IKEA, Pefect for Every Occasion |  Flash Frontier | February 2019 https://www.flash-frontier.com/february-2018-comedy/

2018

• A Canadian Salmon | Bath Flash Fiction anthology volume three
  ‘Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road’  | December 2018
• Blown Off Course | Issue 14 Headland Journal 2018 headland.org.nz/current-issue/
• Great Expectations | ‘A Patchwork of Stories,’ anthology from the 2018 Birdcatcher Short Story Competition. Published by Birdcatcher Books www.smashwords.com/books/view/905984#
• Just My Luck | Bonsai UC Press 2018 www.canterbury.ac.nz/engage/cup/new/bonsai-best-small-stories-from-aotearoa-new-zealand.html
• Swan Song | Published in North & South Magazine | February 2018

2017 and earlier

• Once Upon a Time |  takahē 91| December 2017​
• Waterloo |  takahē 88 | December 2016
• My Haunted House | Flash Frontier | April 2016  www.flash-frontier.com/april-2016-slow/#haunted
• Sing a Song of Sixpence | Flash Frontier | November 2016
• Titiro Whakamuri, Kokiri Whakamua | Shortlisted for the NSA Heritage Competition | November 2016
• Out of Sight | Flash Frontier | December 2015
• Eve’s Log | Third place in NZ Poetry Day competition  | August 2014
• Just my Luck | Third place in the New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day Competition  | April 2014
• The Twitcher | First place in the Scottish Book Trust’s May Flash Fiction | March 2014
• Family Outing | Flash Frontier | February 2014