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Rekha Valliappan

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Born

Bombay

Website

https://silicasun.wordpress.com

Twitter

silicasun

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences

Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, M.R. James, Ambrose Bier ...more

Member Since

May 2016

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/silicasun

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Rekha Valliappan M.A. (Eng. Litt.), LL.B. (Hons) is a Best of the Net 2019 Short Story Nominee, a Pushcart Prize 2018 Poetry Nominee, Winner of the Boston Accent Lit Short Story Prize 2016, published in 2017, Finalist in the Ouen Press (UK) Short Story Competition 2017, Best of Fiction in Across The Margin 2017, Best Short Stories in Schlock! Quarterly Spring 2019, long-listed in Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon 2018, Pushcart Prize nomination 2018 by Liquid Imagination, Poem of the Week 2020 in Red Fez, and elsewhere.

She writes short fiction, poetry, haiku, flash fiction, novella, creative nonfiction and essay. Much of her creative writing is literary and/or speculative, in the sub-genres of horror, science fiction, historical ficti Rekha Valliappan M.A. (Eng. Litt.), LL.B. (Hons) is a Best of the Net 2019 Short Story Nominee, a Pushcart Prize 2018 Poetry Nominee, Winner of the Boston Accent Lit Short Story Prize 2016, published in 2017, Finalist in the Ouen Press (UK) Short Story Competition 2017, Best of Fiction in Across The Margin 2017, Best Short Stories in Schlock! Quarterly Spring 2019, long-listed in Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon 2018, Pushcart Prize nomination 2018 by Liquid Imagination, Poem of the Week 2020 in Red Fez, and elsewhere.

She writes short fiction, poetry, haiku, flash fiction, novella, creative nonfiction and essay. Much of her creative writing is literary and/or speculative, in the sub-genres of horror, science fiction, historical fiction, mystery & suspense, irony, fantasy, surrealism, magic realism, contemporary, satire, humor.

Her prose and poetry are available on the NET published in numerous international journals including Gyroscope Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillwords, Tamarind Literary Magazine, The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review, JMWW Literary Journal, New World Writing, The Saturday Evening Post, The Sandy River Review, Ann Arbor Review, Nixes Mate Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, StepAway Magazine, Litro Magazine USA, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Prime Number Magazine/Press 53, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Aphelion Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Penumbric Science Fiction Magazine, Teleport Speculative Fiction Magazine, Lackington Magazine, The Chamber Magazine, Dime Show Review, Eastern Iowa Review, NonBinary Review, Mason Street Review, The London Reader, Third Flatiron, Queen Mob's Teahouse, X-R-A-Y Lit., Aaduna Lit., Thrice Fiction, Bending Genres, The Cabinet of Heed, The Blue Nib, RIC Literary Journal, Angry Gable Press, and elsewhere. Others are reprints. Paperback and print anthologies are available on Amazon, Lulu and independent publishers.

For a complete List and Links to read online or to purchase a hard copy, visit her website SILICASUN. ...more

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	Coffin Bell One by Tamara Burross Grisanti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel J. Adams, Nicole Appleby 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat's Breakfast: Kurt Vonnegut Tribute by Juliana Rew (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David A. Kilman, Vaughan Stanger (Goodreads Author) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tasting Notes & other short stories by P. Comley (Editor), Rekha Valliappan (Goodreads Author), Other Contributors it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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