Rebekah’s fiction writing has been recognised in major awards in Australia and overseas, including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, Fish Publishing Short Story Prize and Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open. Her short stories have appeared in publications including Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories and Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women (Black Inc.).

Her doctoral research is a work of fiction in the form of a short story cycle, and an exegesis.  The exegesis explores the history, definitions and theories of the cycle genre, while outlining and interrogating the journey of the short story writer in utilising opportunities peculiar to the extended form. These opportunities centre on place, which is an explicit connection in the story cycle, but implicit connections are also explored, in the spaces between the stories, to examine contemporary themes including isolation, middle class aspiration, land politics, gender and family. The short story cycle is published as a novel-in-stories by Affirm Press (Barking Dogs, 2017).

• ‘It is hard to describe the force of these seemingly minor connections except to say they replicate the ramifications of our real lives and in so doing turn a selection of short stories into a profoundly satisfying novel.’ The Adelaide Advertiser;
• ‘Clarkson’s work hums with talent, and the promise of this book, unlike that of the new housing estates, was not merely kept, but surpassed.’ The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.