Lindz McLeod

Selected Poetry:

• 'Plaid' with Bandit [online] 2021
• 'waterlog' with Inkwell Journal [print] 2021
• 'Axis of Power' with Brown Bag
• 'a photograph on my phone, two phones ago' with perhappened, issue 7 [online] 2020
• 'dormant' with perhappened, issue 5 [online] 2020
• 'Passerine' with Second Chance Lit
• 'Form The Arches' with Living Artists [online]
• 'The Wife Hunters' in Feral [online] 2020 
• 'I Guess We Miss Her' and 'Ante, Inter, Deinde' in Hellebore [online] 2020
• 'choke' in Lammergeier [online] 2020
• 'Laura Dern's Gut Is God' in Grain Magazine [print] 2020
• 'Virago' in Reside Magazine Issue 6 [online] 2020
• 'Every Heart A Carnival' in perhappened, Issue 1 [online] 2020
• 'udaviti se (to drown oneself)' in Deracine [online] 2020
• 'Haud Yer Wheesht' in The Selkie [online] 2020
• 'Spinneret' in Impossible Archetype [online] 2020
• 'Among The Valleys Low' in Dust Poetry [online] 2020
• 'From Depths We Wake' in Clav Mag [online] 2020
• 'Salt And Smoke' in Pomme Journal's Mini Pomme 'Put Into Words, My Love' [print] 2020
• 'Damocles' and 'at the trident' in Selcouth Station [online] 2020
• 'Mayfly' in The Festival Review
• 'Pisces To The West' and ' Rinse and Repeat' in Allegory Ridge's Aurora Poetry Anthology [print] 2020
• 'Castling By Hand' in Coffin Bell Journal 2020 [online]
• 'Alope, The Fountain' in Heirlock Magazine Issue 2: Pride 2019 [e-book and print]
• 'a lungful' in Passaic/Völuspá 2019 [online] 
• 'shoulders' in Prometheus Dreaming 2019 [online] 
•  'Love Is A Bird, Carmen' in Wingless Dreamer 2019 [online] and Passionate Penholders [print] 
•  'among the thistles'' in Sunbeam Anthologies 2020 [print]
• 'Amor, Like The Death Of Boromir' in Meat For Tea: the Valley Review, Volume 13, Issue 2
  Street 2019 [print] 
• 'Is A Seascape Ever Enough', 'in the aether, all the signs,' and 'a stor' in Indie Blu(e) Publishing - Smitten: A Queer Love Anthology 2019 [print and Kindle] 
• 'Cow Bondage' in For Women Who Roar 2019 [e-book] 
• 'shoulders' reprint in Ink Sweat & Tears 2019  [online] 
• 'A Selkie: a kenning' and 'Southpaw: a tanaka' in Poet's Choice Anthology 2019 [print]

  Published Work 

Selected Short Stories:

• 'I Am A Mongolian Death Worm' in Bear Creek Gazette
• 'Paradise Regained' in Bear Creek Gazette
• 'Noir, La Gare' in Amplify
• 'Saturn's Ring' for the Midnight Society's Spooky Showcase
• 'Juncture' in Final Girl Bulletin, Daily Drunk magazine
• 'Beneath The Clean Cotton Mountain' in Trembling With Fear [online]
• 'Glissade' in Cossmass Infinities
• 'Heavenly Bodies' in Wrongdoing Magazine
• 'Wolf Whistle' in the New Guard Volume IX 2021 [print]
• 'Mineral Bouquet' for Twist In Time Magazine 2020
• 'Sunshine' for the Scottish Book Trust's Future project 2020 [online]
• 'Mr Fuzz' for the Dundee Victoria & Albert Museum's Hello, Robot exhibition 2020
•  'She Gets Too Hungry For Dinner At Eight' in Malefaction Magazine's Femme Fatale issue [print] 2020
• 'Shoulders' in Mooky Chick 2020
•  'The Trick Is To Keep' in Dime Store Review 2020 
• 'Squeak' in Scottish Book Trust - Blether Anthology 2019 [print]  Book available free and e-reader/Kindle versions available here, as well as on RNIB Radio and its subsequent podcast (146) on 22nd November 2019
• 'Squeak' was also published in the Scotsman newspaper on Saturday 23rd November 2019 
• 'Perinthus, Unconquered', co-written with Zebib K.A., in Cabinet of Heed Issue 27 2019
• 'Guinness' in Paragraph Planet 2019 [online]
• 'New Age' in 365 Tomorrows 2015 [online] 
• 'Hook And Line' Twisted Aardvark Flash Fiction Anthology 2012 [print] 
• 'The Third Sphere' Twisted Aardvark Flash Fiction Anthology 2016 [print] 

Won:

• Edinburgh Writer's Club Historical Novel Competition 2021 [prize and trophy]
• Edinburgh Writer's Club Young Adult Story Competition 2020 [prize and trophy]
• Runner-Up in Shoreline of Infinity's Comedy Sci-Fi Competition 2020
• Back Patio Press Poetry Competition 2020 with Pabst Boy Stunna' 
• Edinburgh Writer's Club Science Fiction Short Story competition 2019  [prize and Molly Marquis trophy]
• Scriptwriting Perth One-on-One mentoring session with Annie George 2018 with short political play 'Zugzwang'
• Cazart Fiction Prize 2012 with 'Citrus Sinensis'

Listed:

• Shortlisted Flash-Bang! Fiction Crime Competition 2015 with 'Brig and Steam'
• Shortlisted Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2019 with 'Upon The Hill'
• Shortlisted Spider Road Press Flash Fiction Competition 2019
• Shortlisted Bold Types Competition via Glasgow Women's Library 2019
• Shortlisted Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2020
• Longlisted BIFFY50 microfiction 2021

Published Interviews:

• Smitten interview, featured in The Feathered Sleep 
• 'Discussing Her Body And Other Parties' in Your Own Words podcast
• Interview at Full House

Audio Recordings:

• Is A Seascape Ever Enough' in Indie Blu(e) Publishing - Smitten: A Queer Love Anthology 2019
• 'Squeak' in Scottish Book Trust's Blether Anthology 2019
• 'Pyramids' in Lies, Dreaming podcast 2019