Rae Joyce
Born Rachel J. Fenton in 1976, in Yorkshire, she moved to New Zealand in 2007. She currently uses the pen name Rae Joyce. Joyce graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2007 with a BA in English Studies.
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Rae Joyce
- Birth Name
- Rachel J.
- Born
- 1976
- Birthplace
- Yorkshire, England
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- comics artist · comics editor
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Born Rachel J. Fenton in 1976, in Yorkshire, she moved to New Zealand in 2007. She currently uses the pen name Rae Joyce. Joyce graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2007 with a BA in English Studies.
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Rae Joyce (born 1976) is a comics artist and comics editor, of New Zealand nationality. The comics artist was born in Yorkshire.
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In 2013 she won the 7th Annual Short Fiction Prize (in association with Plymouth University). She won the 2013 Flash Frontier Winter Award for excellence in writing. She was the runner up for the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize and her poem "Amazon" was longlisted for the Fish Publishing International Poetry Prize. She was also shortlisted for The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize and won the 2011–2012 AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition prize for short graphic fiction. In 2014 she was selected to be part of the Graphic Novelist Exchange (organised by Publishers Association of New Zealand, the Taipei Book Fair Foundation, and the New Zealand Book Council), alongside Tim Gibson and Ant Sang. This led to the collaborative book Island to Island with Tapei-based artists Sean Chuang, 61Chi and Ahn Zhe. Joyce is featured in the Hicksville Press directory of New Zealand cartoonists and comics creators, New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels. In 2022, she won the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her novel Between the Flags which was published by Cuba Press.
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• Birth Name — Rachel J. Fenton • Born — 1976 • Birthplace — Yorkshire, England • Notable Works — Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics (with Sarah Laing and Indira Neville
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1976
Rae Joyce born at Yorkshire.
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- 1.Hicksville Press. New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels. 37. 2012. 9780473217914.
- 2.Graphic Novelist: Rachel Fenton. Publishers Association of New Zealand Inc. 13 November 2014.
- 3.Rae Joyce, Indira Neville & Sarah Laing. Beatnik Publishing.
- 4.Rachel Fenton. Sheffield Hallam University.
- 5.three words: an introduction. threeword3.blogspot.co.uk. 18 September 2014.
- 6.Joyce, Rae. Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics. Beatnik. 2016. 9780994120502.
- 7.Short Fiction Prize 2017. Short Fiction – The Visual Literary Journal.
- 8.Rachel Fenton. New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association.
- 9.October 2013: Rescued. Flash Frontier.
- 10.Hill, Grant. Duo To Fight It Out For Dundee International Book Prize 2014. University of Dundee. 5 August 2014.
- 11.Poetry Contest 2016 Longlist. Fish Publishing. 10 May 2016.
- 12.2011-2012 Competition Winners - Short Graphic Fiction: Open (15 years and over). Auckland University of Technology. 14 February 2014.
- 13.News from the Kiwi participants of the Graphic Novelist Exchange. New Zealand Book Council. 13 November 2014.
- 14.Prasanth, Aswin. Rae Joyce (Rachel Fenton) interview. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 12. 5. 1224–1235. 6 August 2020. 2150-4857.
- 15.New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels. Hicksville Press. 28 June 2012.
- 16.Announcing the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2022 winner. NZSA New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc. 17 June 2022.
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