recent PubliCATIONS (2025-2026):
Story in Online Journal: COMING IN 2026!
Corvid Queen
COMING IN 2026: 9th of January 2026
The Tension Between (3500 words)
The Tension Between has been accepted into this beautiful journal of feminist faerytales.
- First time in this journal :-)
- Different genre: darker, reflective fantasy
- Third time lucky - this piece was only rejected twice before it found a home!
This is a grimmer, darker, reflective, end of world fantasy piece with mythological themes and references.
Publishing date: 9th January 2026!
Story in ANTHOLOGY: November 2025
COMING November 2025
Foofaraw Press
Wizarding (1000 words)
This was one of the coolest open calls I have seen in a while. As soon as I spotted this zany little space I knew I needed to begin to hurl offerings into their slush pile.
Any piece submitted needed to align with one of the following definitions of Foofaraw:
- a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.
- an excessive amount of decoration or ornamentation, as on a piece of clothing, a building, etc.
Love their energy and angle. I cannot wait to read this hard-copy only anthology :-)
- Brand new short story
- Cosy, humorous feel
- Flash Fiction (1000 words)
Slightly amusing magical piece about conflicting characters in an odd situation.
Story in NEW Project: COMING November 2025
COMING Sept-Nov 2025
TBA
TBA (5400 words)
Story has been ACCEPTED into an anthology project! More to come! (Yes, the image is a clue :-)
- Cosy/warm fantasy piece
- Slightly amusing
- Working with other AMAZING local writers to create something that is TRULY special!
Story in ANTHOLOGY: November 2025
COMING November 2025
Speculation Publications
The Salt of It (2500 words)
A 2500 word dark fantasy/literary fiction short story has been accepted into an anthology: Winter Lore Book 3: Aurora: Tales of Winter Dreams.
- New publisher!
- Dark faerytale feel
- Symbolic, reflective, unsettling
This is a far darker, heavier piece. Set in a dark fantasy style setting, my purpose in this one was more lit fic than fantasy, with symbolic reference to intergenerational trauma and fantasy style representation of parents with mental health issues, and childhood neglect.
Contract SIGNED.
Anticipated publishing date: early November 2025.
Story in Horror Anthology: COMING SEPT 2025
Inkd Publishing, Behind the Shadows III
Publishing date Aug/Sept 2025
Necro-Mantic Troubles (4000 words)
- First time working with this publisher :-)
- Different genre: this is a horror anthology, and my piece is YA/dark academy satire.
- This is a linked story, meaning there is an overlap of some characters into another humorous/satire YA/dark academy piece
Contract signed! Project has begun
Publishing date: August/September 2025
Story in "Best of" Magazine Anthology: COMING SOON (now Sept 2025)
Metastellar, Best of Year Four
COMING SOON: Estimated to be mid-year, now likely to published September 2025)
Affordable Resurrection (1600 words)
PLUS Snoogle Hunt (1000 words)
Both pieces are slightly humorous modern feel fantasy pieces, one about a necromancer and the student he is mentoring. The other about middle aged wizards embarking on new hobbies.
- This is the third time Affordable Resurrection has been published (previously in Teleport Magazine, which has closed, also FREE to read in Metastellar :-)
- Affordable Resurrection has a twist in the end. Did you spot it before the end?
- Snoogle Hunt is my first EVER piece to be accepted by the open call I wrote it for! It has never been rejected! It was published in Metastellar Magazine through their New Fiction open call and will now feature in their "best of" anthology.
Story in Anthology: COMING AUG 2025
BRAND new slightly humorous, slightly steamy fantasy story (12000 words) has been accepted in an anthology, due to be released August 2025.
I have been lucky enough to have had a piece published with Dragonsoul Press previously (2023), and I am very excited to work with them again.
- Villains as heroes! Sexy middle aged villain/professional minion Nyx does what it takes to survive the end of the world, even if it means attaching herself to the people most likely to survive the calamity - crashing a party of top-shelf heroes and villains.
- Steamy scene (too steamy for magazines, maybe?)
- One of the 15 Nanowrimo 2024 short stories I created, finding its home!
Online Magazine: FREE to read
Crow & Cross Keys
31 May 2025
Reprint: Tidal Bones (2500 words)
Dark fantasy, Australian Gothic piece about the disintegration of a young woman's hopes and dreams in the shadow of a dark bay. What's hunting her from the water? Why has she been drawn to this bleak, doomed place?
- Second time in print
- Gorgeous, dark magazine
- Attempt at light horror, Australian gothic
You can read this piece FOR FREE here: https://crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/31/tidal-bones-nicole-walsh/
And check out other darkly beautiful stories here: https://crowcrosskeys.com/
Online, publisher's Patreon: out NOW
Online, publisher's Patreon: out NOW
Black Hare Press' Patreon Account
28 Feb 2025
Travel, the Boy and the Anchor (1500 words)
A darker more reflective piece of fantasy. What are our dreams and plans and expectations really worth? All the things we do not have control over.
- Working with a brand new publisher for this exciting project
- Twist at the end of the story
- My very first Nanowrimo 2024 piece for find a home (with only one rejection!)
This piece is behind a paywall on a Patreon account here: https://www.patreon.com/blackharepress
Published in 2024:
Online Magazine: FREE to read!
96th of October
1st of December 2024
Fish or Chips (2000 words)
A short, slightly humorous fantasy adventure piece was accepted into THIS amazing magazine! It has been a dream of mine to be accepted into 96th of October for as long as I have been submitting. Over the years they have rejected 11 other pieces. But - accepted this one! Yay!
- First time in this magazine :-)
- Another short Hell-Colony inspired piece
- Third time lucky - this piece has only been rejected by two other places before it was lucky enough to find its home!
A warm, amusing piece of fantasy about unlikely allies working dead-end jobs in the Hell-Colony, wishing for more.
Check it out here: https://96thofoctober.com/articles/fish-or-chips/
And, check out other fabulous short stories and this super cute supportive magazine here: https://96thofoctober.com/
Magazine Audio Project: FREE to listen!
Metastellar Magazine featured "Heaven-Sent" (reprint) (800 words) in its storytime project on Youtube. Presented by Andrea Goyan and read aloud by E.E King. This is only my second short story EVER to feature as an audio project!
Out now and FREE to read!
Heaven-Sent (800 words) was first published by Metastellar as a reprint (featuring on my website first) in September 2022.
Check it out here: https://www.metastellar.com/metastellar-storytime-youtube-playlist/
- Humorous flash fiction
- First re-publish of this piece
- Second EVER audio project of one of my pieces!
Magazine: OUT NOW - FREE to read
20 June 2024
Snoogle Hunt (1000 words)
Metastellar Magazine has been hugely supportive of my reprints, but I have not had any luck with their briefly-opened new fiction windows. Until now!!! Whoot!
They accepted and published Snoogle Hunt!
- Shortfiction/fast read
- Humorous piece
- Accepted by the FIRST magazine the story was sent to (whoot!)
Available FREE to read here: https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/flash-fiction/snoogle-hunt/
Other great new flash fiction available here: https://www.metastellar.com/category/fiction/flash-fiction/
Magazine: Luna Station Quarterly
June 2024
Resurrecting Tessa (2000 words)
Resurrecting Tessa is an older piece and a personal favourite of mine. It has a darker more reflective bend than most of my work. It's an attempt at soaking a lifetime of sorrow and regret in 2000 words through a quaint sci-fi fantasy mashup.
- Dark fantasy/sci fi
- Darker piece
- FIRST time in this magazine (whoot!)
(There are sensitivity warnings for this piece - check out my sensitivity warning page for details)
Resurrecting Tessa is published here: https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/058/
Check out this beautiful magazine, here: https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/
2nd Novel: out NOW
The God-Wife Reborn (sci fi/fantasy novel)
Publishing through a local (Brisbane Australia) publisher via a traditional publishing contract: Interactive Publications
More info on 'Novels' tab!
Magazine: OUT NOW - FREE TO READ
8 March 2024
Affordable Resurrection (1600 words)
Affordable Resurrection, previously published in Teleport Magazine (which has closed), has been accepted as a reprint into Metastellar Magazine!
- Shortfiction/fast read
- Humorous piece
- Cute twist
- FREE to read magazine
Affordable Resurrection is a irreverent (hopefully) lightly amusing piece of fast fiction following the adventures of a necromancer and his trainee in their not-so-glamourous job. Budget necromancers, anyone?
Check out Affordable Resurrection here: https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/affordable-resurrection/
And this fabulously professional, beautiful and supportive magazine here: https://www.metastellar.com/
Magazine: Zoetic Press: Non Binary Review
March 2024
Sparkle (3000 words)
Sparkle was accepted into the very first magazine it was submitted to, for the themed open call it was written to respond to!
- First time in this magazine!
- First time a piece was accepted first go out the gate
- Absurd/bizarre elements
Sparkle is a piece of modern feel lit fic with speculative elements. The story is about the role our nightmares play in shaping our lives, and the way our lives play in shaping our nightmares.
Check out Sparkle here: https://www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merch/nonbinary-review-issue-35-old-friends
And this lovely and supportive magazine here: https://www.zoeticpress.com/
Magazine: OUT NOW - FREE to read
January 2024
Kill Switch (1400 words)
Bewildering Stories accepted Kill Switch (reprint, previously published in Sci Fi Lampoon Magazine)
- FIRST time in this magazine
- Flash fiction/fast read
- Humorous piece
- FREE to read magazine
Kill Switch is a short humorous piece of flash fiction about a hung over, down on her luck peace-keeper confronted with a crime on her very doorstep.
Check out Kill Switch in Bewildering Stories here: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1029/kill_switch.html and more from this issue here: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1029/blurb.html
Published in 2023:
Anthology: OUT NOW
November 2023
Brother's Keeper (6000 words)
Dragon Soul Press' brand new anthology Magick and Mystery features my new short story Brother's Keeper.
Brother's Keeper is a grimmer, bleaker piece of dark fantasy. How do we manage the darker elements of our nature? What if we lived in a world where the management of our shadow selves was outsourced? What power or vulnerability would this create?
Link to buy this anthology here (all countries):
http://books2read.com/MMystery
Or in Australia here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magick-Mystery-Dragon-Press-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0CKQHZSQ1/
Learn more about this publisher here: https://dragonsoulpress.com/
Magazine: OUT NOW - FREE to read
December 2023
Last Job (3000 words)
This fabulous Aotearoa New Zealand Magazine published my as yet unpublished piece Last job in their special Speculative Fiction (sci fi/fantasy) Issue, issue 20.
Last Job is a darker slower piece about cycles and endings and the choices and roles we play. Are we the heroes in our own stories? Or do we see ourselves as characters in another's story?
Check out Last Job and other beautiful spec fic pieces from Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors here: https://headland.org.nz/issues/issue-20/
This magazine is FREE to read: https://headland.org.nz/
Anthology: OUT NOW
November 2023
There were a few delays with the release date of this project but it is OUT NOW
Featuring:
- Spring-Child (500 words)
- The Books (500 words)
- On time (500 words)
Buy this anthology here (in Australian): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CL51W3SK?fbclid
And here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL51W3SK?
Publisher information here: https://ironfaeriepublishing.com/
Magazine: OUT NOW
November 2023
Lovely (2000 words)
Not One Of Us Magazine has accepted one of my pieces for publication: 1st October 2023
- FIRST time in this magazine
- BRAND new piece
- First EVER modern/supernatural dark fiction short story published
*(Sensitivity warning on this one - details on sensitivity warning page)
This magazine is having some difficulties with their website/FB page. Details on how to BUY this magazine here: https://legacyliteraryservices.com/not-one-of-us/subscribe/
Anthology (Best of...): OUT NOW
July 2023
Heaven Sent (800 words) REPRINT
Metastellar is a fantastically supportive magazine that produces professional, quality anthologies and work. They are also a dream to work with. As a reader and a writer, I cannot recommend this magazine enough.
I was lucky enough to have a piece in their Best Of Metastellar Year One. Imagine my delight when one of my pieces that they published in 2022 made it into the BEST OF YEAR TWO!
BUY this fabulous anthology here: https://www.metastellar.com/the-best-of-metastellar-year-two/
Magazine: OUT NOW - FREE to read
25 August 2023
Neighbours (1000 words) REPRINT
I am thrilled to announce one of my favourite and also one of my very FIRST short stories has been published as a re-print by Metastellar!
Neighbours, a 1000 word fantasy piece, is based in my "Hell-Colony" world. I have other published (Hell-Bound, Life Lesson) and unpublished short stories based in this world. I also have completed and partially completed novels and novellas based in this world :-)
This time around Neighbours is FREE to read (previously in an anthology).
Check out Neighbours here: https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/neighbors/
Check out this fabulously supportive and professional looking spec fic magazine here: https://www.metastellar.com/
Magazine: No longer available :-(
17 August 2023
Life Lesson (1800 words)
Brand NEW piece, published through Teleport Magazine (this magazine has unfortunately closed November 2023)
This is another amusing, modern feel fantasy short story. What is DIFFERENT about this piece is... I liked it SO much I have written a whole NOVEL based on these characters!
Link to this piece no longer available.
- Funny, fantasy, modern feel
- Incompetent villains teaching a school, in hell
Magazine: OUT NOW
13 August 2023
Bone White (2500 words)
Brand NEW piece, published through Andromeda Spaceways Magazine
This piece was shortlisted for a chance for publication toward the end of 2022. To my absolute delight, they accepted my piece!
To my further amazement, my piece Bone White inspired the cover art for this issue :-) WOW! I love it.
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Issue #91 is out NOW.
Buy this magazine here: https://andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-91/
Find out MORE about this magazine here: https://andromedaspaceways.com/
- FIRST time in this magazine
- BRAND new piece
- My FIRST ever sci fi piece to be published
- The FIRST piece of art inspired by my work
Magazine: OUT NOW!
April 2023
Up From the River (10 000 words). Bards and Sages Quarterly Magazine.
My longest published short story and the piece with the shortest publication journey! Up From the River has a faerytale/fantasy vibe to it and has been published by this gorgeous magazine: https://www.bardsandsages.com/index.html
Buy this magazine here: https://www.bardsandsages.com/bards-and-sages-quarterly.html
Magazine: OUT NOW!
20 March 2023
Into The Blue (2500 words). Magazine: Last Girls Club Magazine
My first attempt at "lit fic" (with supernatural elements). A feminist horror piece, my first published by this gorgeous magazine: https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/
*There are sensitivity/trigger warnings with this piece. Detailed here: https://nicolewalshauthor.com/sensitivity-warnings-tw
You can buy this magazine here (PDF): https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/pdfcopy/p/spring-issue-2023-panic
And here (hard copy): https://www.blurb.com/b/11517497-spring-equinox-2023
Magazine: no longer available
Magazine: no longer available
March 2023
Affordable Resurrection (1600 words)
Brand NEW piece, published through Teleport Magazine (this magazine unfortunately closed November 2023)
Link no longer available.
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