{{Short description|New Zealand comics artist and editor (born 1976)}} {{redirect|Rachel Fenton|the reality TV contestant|Rachel Fenton (Love Island)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox comics creator|embed=|honorific_prefix=|honorific_suffix=|image=|image_size=|image_upright=|alt=|caption= |birth_name=Rachel J. Fenton |birth_date={{Birth year and age|1976}} |birth_place=Yorkshire, England |death_date=|death_place=|resting_place=|occupation=|language=|nationality=|alma_mater=|genre= |notable works=''Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics'' (with Sarah Laing and Indira Neville |awards= |website= }} '''Rachel Fenton''', also known as '''Rae Joyce''' (born 1976), is a graphic novel artist and author from New Zealand.

Born Rachel J. Fenton in 1976, in Yorkshire, she moved to New Zealand in 2007. She currently uses the pen name Rae Joyce.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=http://hicksvillepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/NZComics-lowres-DL-revised.pdf|title=New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels|editor-last=Horrocks|editor-first=Dylan |publisher=Hicksville Press|year=2012|isbn=9780473217914|pages=37}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.publishers.org.nz/graphic-novelist-rachel-fenton/|title=Graphic Novelist: Rachel Fenton|date=13 November 2014|work=Publishers Association of New Zealand Inc|access-date=27 November 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rae Joyce, Indira Neville & Sarah Laing |url=https://beatnikpublishing.com/collections/rae-joyce-indira-neville-sarah-laing?_pos=1&_psq=Rae%20Joyce&_ss=e&_v=1.0 |access-date=27 November 2017 |website=Beatnik Publishing |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Joyce graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2007 with a BA in English Studies.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rachel Fenton |url=https://www.shu.ac.uk/alumni/inspirational-alumni/development-and-society/rachel-fenton |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032320/https://www.shu.ac.uk/alumni/inspirational-alumni/development-and-society/rachel-fenton |archive-date=1 December 2017 |access-date=27 November 2017 |website=Sheffield Hallam University |language=en}}</ref>

With Sarah Laing and Indira Neville, Joyce is the co-editor of ''Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://threeword3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/three-words-introduction.html|title=three words: an introduction|website=threeword3.blogspot.co.uk|date=18 September 2014|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics|last1=Joyce|first1=Rae|last2=Laing|first2=Sarah|last3=Neville|first3=Indira|publisher=Beatnik|year=2016|isbn=9780994120502}}</ref>

In 2013 she won the 7th Annual Short Fiction Prize (in association with Plymouth University).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Short Fiction Prize 2017 |url=http://www.shortfictionjournal.co.uk/?page_id=33 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201083849/http://www.shortfictionjournal.co.uk/?page_id=33 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |access-date=27 November 2017 |website=Short Fiction – The Visual Literary Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://authors.org.nz/author/rachelfenton/|title=Rachel Fenton|website=New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association|language=en-US|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref> She won the 2013 Flash Frontier Winter Award for excellence in writing.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flash-frontier.com/october-2013-rescued/|title=October 2013: Rescued|website=Flash Frontier|language=en-US|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref>

She was the runner up for the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Grant |date=5 August 2014 |title=Duo To Fight It Out For Dundee International Book Prize 2014 |url=https://www.dundee.ac.uk/news/2014/duo-to-fight-it-out-for-dundee-international-book-prize-2014.php |access-date=27 November 2017 |website=University of Dundee |language=en}}</ref> and her poem "Amazon" was longlisted for the Fish Publishing International Poetry Prize.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fishpublishing.com/2016/05/10/poetry-contest-2016-longlist/|title=Poetry Contest 2016 Longlist|date=10 May 2016|work=Fish Publishing|access-date=27 November 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref> She was also shortlisted for The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize<ref name=":0" /> and won the 2011–2012 AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition prize for short graphic fiction.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 February 2014 |title=2011-2012 Competition Winners - Short Graphic Fiction: Open (15 years and over) |url=https://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/language-culture/creative-writing-competition/2011-2012-competition-winners |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030521/https://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/language-culture/creative-writing-competition/2011-2012-competition-winners |archive-date=1 December 2017 |access-date=27 November 2017 |website=Auckland University of Technology |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 November 2014 |title=News from the Kiwi participants of the Graphic Novelist Exchange |url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/aotearoa-reads-details/news-from-the-kiwi-participants-of-the-graphic-novelist-exchange |access-date=27 November 2017 |website=New Zealand Book Council}}</ref> This led to the collaborative book ''Island to Island'' with Tapei-based artists Sean Chuang, 61Chi and Ahn Zhe.<ref name="Prasanth">{{cite journal |last1=Prasanth |first1=Aswin |last2=Panhathodi |first2=Rajesh |last3=George |first3=Augustine |title=Rae Joyce (Rachel Fenton) interview |journal=Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |date=6 August 2020 |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=1224–1235 |doi=10.1080/21504857.2020.1802317 |s2cid=225498461 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2020.1802317 |access-date=8 August 2020 |issn=2150-4857|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Joyce is featured in the Hicksville Press directory of New Zealand cartoonists and comics creators, ''New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 June 2012 |title=New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels |language=en-US |work=Hicksville Press |url=http://hicksvillepress.com/nzcomicslinks/ |access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref> In 2022, she won the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her novel ''Between the Flags'' which was published by Cuba Press.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2022 |title=Announcing the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2022 winner |url=https://authors.org.nz/event/announcing-the-nzsa-laura-solomon-cuba-press-prize-2022-winner/ |access-date=12 March 2023 |website=NZSA New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc}}</ref>

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== External links == * [http://snowlikethought.blogspot.co.uk Snow Like Thought - Blog by Rae Joyce]

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