JENNA HELLER
writer, poet, editor
WRITING & AWARDS
Fiction
'Round 1' – Marriage, vol 6 in the Pure Slush Lifespan anthology series, 2022
'The inner organs of beasts and fowls' – Breach of All Size, Cuba Press anthology 2022
'constant craving' – love, vol 4 in the Pure Slush Lifespan anthology series, 2021
'Solo' – Flash Frontier, Micro Madness 2021
'The Night Watch' – The Maine Review 7.2, May 2021
'The End of the Beginning' – Pif Magazine #286, March 2021
'Nesting' – Birth, vol 1 in the Pure Slush Lifespan anthology series, January 2021
'Thousand to One' – Flash Frontier Sep 2020
'The Upload' – Takahē 99
'Best Friends' – winner NZ National Flash Fiction Day 2020; Flash Frontier June 2020
'Walnuts' – shortlisted NZ National Flash Fiction Day 2020; Flash Frontier June 2020; Best Small Fictions 2021
'Fanta Boy' – Landfall 239, May 2020
'Follow the Birds' – Typehouse, February 2020
'First Crush' – Hot Flash Fiction November 2019
'Infestation' – Ghost Parachute August 2019
'Hollow' – longlisted NZ National Flash Fiction Day 2019; Flash Frontier July 2019
'Year of the Hawk' YA manuscript shortlisted for the 2019 Text Prize
'The Change' – runner-up North & South Short, Short Story Contest, May 2019; Best Small Fictions 2020
'Haere rā' – Meniscus Vol 7.1, April 2019 | joint-winner of the Meniscus Prose Prize
'Pearl' – The Wax Paper, Issue 9, April 2019
'Right in the Middle' – Bending Genres, Issue 8, April 2019
'The Gas Station' – The Haunted Traveller, December 2017
'Double Vision' – Takahē 91, Dec 2017
'For the Love of Andrew Mehrtens' – Headland Journal Vol 10, 2017
'Tornado' – Flash Frontier, ‘Remnants issue’, Feb 2017
'Watching the Clock' – eFiction, Issue 22, January 2015
Poetry
'Hot Dogs' and 'Washing' – Landfall, April 2022
'Water Finds a Way' and 'Seminole Canyon' – Star 82 Review 10.1, March 2022
'Thinking of Leaving' – Poetry NZ Yearbook 2021
'Fast Food Giant' – Catalyst 18, 2021
'Kintsukuroi' – runner-up in the Caselberg International Poetry Prize; published in Landfall 242, Nov 2021
'Te Kararo Kararo' – NZ Given Words 2021
'Interesting' – Quick Brown Dog 2021
'Elephant' – a fine line 2021
'Inheritance' – Maryland Literary Review 2021
'Inside Earth' – Connecticut River Review 2021
'the unmaking' – Meniscus Vol 9, Issue 1, 2021
'For all that I am not' and 'Keep only those things that speak to your heart' – Star 82 Review 9.1, March 2021
'Blue Mind' and 'Forest Bathing' – Catalyst 17, 2020
'The Last Blacksmith' – shortlist NZSA Literary Heritage Poetry Award 2020; Takahē 101, April 2021
'Steady on' – shortlist Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize
'Birdman' – Blackmail Press #44
'Shattered' – Poetry NZ Yearbook 2020
'Dancing Bicycle' – shortlisted NZ Given Words 2020
'Gravity', 'Cherry Blossoms in Concrete', 'The Return', 'Uncle Thornton Skis to Work' – broken lines / in charcoal, anthology Pukeko Publications 2020
'Cherry Blossoms in Concrete' – Takahē 98, April 2020
'Henry' – The Gay and Lesbian Review Mar/Apr 2020
'kererū' – Mayhem October 2019
'Coming Out' – Genre: Urban Arts No. 8 Print 2019
'Crossing the Rio Grande' - Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 2019
'after the argument' - Connecticut River Review, Aug/Sep 2019
'On the Trail' – Star 82 Review 7.2, June 2019
'The Return' – DASH, May 2019
'Tidal Love' and 'Calling the Wind' –Takahē 95, April 2019
‘stars paint the canyon’ – 2019 Poetry NZ Annual
'Winter is a sheet of music' – Takahē 93, August 2018
‘when you were just three’ – Eucalypt 24, May 2018
'Moustache' – Aotearotica Vol 3, 2017
'My parenting is steel' – Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, June 2017
'On Tape, Circa 1975' – Star 82 Review, June 2017
'Mott St', 'Roots' and 'Pretending in Fiji' – Page & Spine, June 2017
'Big Bend Country' – Turtle Island Quarterly, November 2017
'Birth' – Sponge Vol 1, 2017 (includes audio recording)
'New Brighton, 2016' – Takahē 89, April 2017
'Learning to Unlearn' – Popshot, April 2017
'Presents (for Robert and Kahu)' – Radio NZ, 2014
Runner-Up – Christchurch Poetry Slam 1999, 2014
'Drawing Lots' – Takahē 49, October 2003
'Brother' – The Press, 20 Jan 2001
'Saturday in Auckland' – Poetry NZ, Feb/Mar 2000
'Shadow Man' and 'Woman' – Micro Press NZ, June 2000
'Little Sister' – fillingStation, 2000
'My Daughter Flew Home Today', 'Dog Days', and 'Meanings' – BOMB, Issue 49, 1994
'Three Ventilator Men in a Field' – Plazm, 1994,
'In Late October' – Takahē 38, Dec 1999