Maggie Rainey-Smith is a novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist and book reviewer. Her latest novel ‘Daughters of Messene’ is about immigration and the Greek Civil War. The Greek translation of this novel  came out in June 2019 and is a best seller in Greece. In her working life she teaches Workplace English to migrants and refugees. 

Maggie's poetry memoir 'Formica' was launched in March, 2022.      thecubapress.nz/media-kit/#formica

Bibliography


Fiction
Daughters of Messene (Makaro Press, 2015; Rosa Mira eBook)
Daughters of Messene (Kedros Publishers, Athens, 2019).
Turbulence (Random House, 2007; and eBook)
About Turns (Random House, 2005; and eBook)

Poetry
Formica The Cuba Press, March 2022  (A baby boomer memoir in poetry)


Journals
'How too Weird' a poem  'Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, Edinburgh University Press, 2018
‘Polite Footprints’, Headland (Short story: January, 2015)
‘Ngawhatu’, 4th Floor Journal (Poem: 2015)
‘The Death Ride’, The Typewriter (Poem: 2014)
‘Shop until you drop’, National Flash Fiction (Highly Commended & Regional winner: National Flash Fictioncompetition, 2014)
‘Lonely Planet’, Flash Frontier: Heroes (Short fiction: November, 2014)
‘Who is Left’, Landfall 227: Vital Signs (Joint runner-up: Landfall Essay Competition, 2014)
‘Cross Country’, National Flash Fiction (Short fiction: 2013)
‘Life of a working girl’, The Typewriter (Poem: Volume IV, 2012)
‘Quite an Assistant’, 4th Floor Literary Journal (Poem: 2011)
‘Love in the Fifties’, 4th Floor Literary Journal (Poem: 2010)
‘Mother-in-law to newborn granddaughter’, 4th Floor Literary Journal (Poem: 2009)
‘The Write Stuff’, Herald on Sunday (Essay: 15 June, 2008; Bookman Beattie’s Blog)
‘Turkey for Christmas’, NZ Listener (Travel essay: January 2007)
‘Menopause’, New Zealand Books (Poem: Volume 17, Issue 78, Winter 2007)
‘Looking for Curly – A daughter’s story’, NZ Listener (Travel essay: June 2006)
‘At Katherine’s Bay’, NZ Listener (Poem: April 2004)
‘My teeth and me’, Landfall (Short-listed essay: Landfall Essay Competition, 2004)
‘Saturday Night Shopping’, Sport 27 (Short story: Spring 2001)



Anthologies
'Just Jogging'  a poem in 'The Friday Poem - 100 New Zealand Poems' Edited by Steve Braunias, Luncheon Sausage Press, 2018
'Changing Course' flash fiction 'Bonsai' Canterbury University Press, 2018
‘Through the Belgian Glass’, Sweet As (Winner: Page & Blackmore short story competition, 2014)
‘The Dawn Parade’, Stories for Seven Year Olds (Children’s story: Random House, 2014)
‘At Katherine’s Bay’, Essential New Zealand Poems – Facing the Empty Page (Poem: Random House; Godwit, 2014)
‘After the Storm’, Te Ara online Encyclopaedia (Poem: Beachcombing, 2013)
‘After the Storm’, & ‘Eastbourne’, Eastbourne – an Anthology (Makaro Press, 2013)
‘At Katherine’s Bay’, Eastbourne – an Anthology (Poem: Makaro Press, 2013)
‘Showtime’, 30 New Zealand Stories for Children (Edited by Barbara Else: Penguin, 2011)
‘Let it Go’, Dunedin – the City in Literature (Short story: Exisle Publishing, 2003)
‘Let it Go’, Creative Juices (Short story: HarperCollins, 2002)


Editor
Eastbourne – an Anthology (Co-editor: Makaro Press, 2013)
'To be alive and to be a "writer" is enough' - Katherine Mansfield Notebook, 1917.