ashleigh rajala

An award-winning fiction writer, erstwhile filmmaker, sometime zinester and current indie role-playing game designer, Ashleigh lives and works in Surrey, BC, on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples. (she/her)

selected publications & projects

“The Fight for Stronghold” table-top roleplaying game (TTRPG) available at itch.io

“Do Not Resuscitate” short fiction at The Howler Project‘s Howler Daily

Sublimation, perzine series. Selected for display at Anno Domini Gallery’s Art of Zines exhibit, San Jose, CA. Featured at Broken Pencil’s Canzine.

“Unwanted Roommates” an irreverent, high-speed card game available at itch.io

“Lost in the Woods” mini-escape room-style puzzle game available at itch.io

“The Village Fête” table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) available at itch.io

“Catnap” solo micro-role-playing game available at itch.io

“The Carter County PTA” table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) available at itch.io

“The Palm Reader” short fiction at Landing Zone Magazine. Nominated for 2021’s “Best of the Net.”

“Millennial Gothic” short fiction at Button Eye Review

“The Mysterious Man in Black” murder mystery party game available at itch.io

Trev’s Books: Unpacking My Grandfather’s Library, personal zine. Debuted at BIBLIOCACHE Vancouver Art Book Fair. Featured Broken Pencil’s Canzine.

“A Breach at Stronghold” murder mystery party game available at itch.io

Museum of the Western World, parody art zine. Debuted at BIBLIOCACHE Vancouver Art Book Fair. Featured Broken Pencil’s Canzine. (Collaboration with Amy Rajala)

“Inspire Courage Craf ts” character creation blurbs for gaming accessories

“Nineties Kid” flash fiction at Every Day Fiction

“Unmasked!” short fiction in Crab Fat Literary Magazine

“Working Title” short fiction in WomenArts Quarterly Journal and Quarter Castle Chronicles. Winner of the Quarter-Castle Publishing Short Story Contest.

“Ticker Tape Kings” short fiction in the Redwing: Speculative Fiction Takes Flight anthology

those people who talk loudly in restaurants, perzine. Featured at Broken Pencil’s Canzine.

“so we’ve yet to find a decent map with south sud an” blog post featured on Freshly Pressed

“Kings Cross” novel excerpt in ROOM

“Game of Thrones Irreverent Reca ps” review blog

“Scenes from a Road Movie” short fiction in The Steel Chisel

“Madrid, Before a Recession” poetry in Ataraxia

“The Stars / Les Étoiles” short fiction in SAD Magazine. Winner of the SAD Magazine Fantasy Fiction Contest.

“Coal Dust” novel excerpt in Sassafras Literary Magazine

“A Live Studio Audience” flash fiction in the Kudzu Review

“Wait ing” (director) short film produced by Bus Stop Productions / Langara Film Arts (Official Selection Stepping Stone Film Festival, Ferndale Film Festival) (written by Robyn Thomas)

“My Top Ten Antiher oes” blog post from Celluloid Heroes (reposted to Sandpaper Blues). Featured on imdb.com front page.

downtown weekend, perzine. Featured at Broken Pencil’s Canzine.

What I Did on a Saturday Afternoon, perzine. Featured at Broken Pencil’s Canzine.

“The Duende’s in the Detai ls” short memoir at the re:moved project

“Commuter School” poetry in Hacksaw Literary Arts Magazine

“The Year Without Hock ey” (writer/director) short film produced by Quarter-Life Productions (Official Selection Hell’s Half-Mile Film Festival)

Ashleigh keeps a personal blog at https://sandpaperblues.wordpress.com/. Beware the irreverence and/or irrelevance.

Ashleigh also provides freelance editing and manuscript consultations, from developmental and substantive editing to proofreading, early draft support to final formatting. Past projects include academic reports, articles for popular media, screenplays, creative non-fiction, and various fiction genres, short and long form. Please inquire through the contact form below for current rates and availability.