R.B. Kelly
native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Rachael Kelly has a PhD in Film Studies and a Dip NCFE in Journalism, and is currently working as a freelance writer and film critic. Rachael is represented by Leslie Owen of Leslie E Owen LLC. Rachael's first love is fiction, and she has had a number of successes with her written work. Her novel, The Edge of Heaven, won the Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair Competition 2014, while her short story, Blumelena was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize 2012. Long Anna River won the Orange Northern Woman Short Story Award and was later featured in an anthology of short stories called The Barefoot Nuns of Barcelona, while The Night Sky In November, another short, was runner-up in the White Tower Publishing Short Story Competition. A poem, A Five Yard Odyssey, won The Battle of the Bards. She writes science fiction as RB Kelly, and contemporary and non-fiction as Rachael Kelly.
