Rachel Gough is a writer and academic from Cork.

Her fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and appears in The Waxed Lemon, Outpost, Bealtaine, the National Flash Fiction Anthology, and Best Small Fictions. Her poetry has been published in Quarryman and is forthcoming in One Good Day.

She holds a PhD in Film and Screen Media from University College Cork and currently works with UCC’s Sustainability Institute, where her research focuses on social and cultural attitudes toward climate change in Ireland.

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In 2021 her short story ‘December 25th 2022’ was shortlisted for Best Short Story at the Wild Atlantic Words Festival. In 2022 she received the Editor’s Choice Award from the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. In the same year she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2025, she was awarded first place in the flash fiction category at the Write by the Sea Literary Festival.

Her work explores the surreal, the supernatural, family, and the complexities of memory. Her writing often looks at rural ecologies and communities, examining the threads that bind them together as well as the forces that drive them apart.

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