Lindz McLeod

Longer Prose:

• 'The Muse', a novelette with Assemble Media's Assemble Artifacts magazine, Vol.5 Winter 2023
• 'Killer Queen' long story with Assemble Media's Assemble Artifacts magazine, Vol. 3, Winter 2022
• 'Love, Happiness, And All The Things You May Not Be Destined For' novelette with Assemble Media's Assemble Artifacts magazine, Vol. 2, Summer 2022

Short Stories:

• 'Here I Go Again' in Nightmare Magazine, 2025
• 'One by One' in Apex Magazine, 2025
• 'Styx and Stones' in And One Day We Will Die: a Neutral Milk Hotel anthology edited by Patrick Barb, published by Hungry Shadow Press, 2025
• Going Under The Knife Without Anaesthetic' in 42 Stories: Macabre & Morbid, 2024
• 'Junior' in Nova Scotia 2 anthology, 2024 (Longlisted for the British Science Fiction Award)
• 'So You Want To Kill Hitler: A Student's Primer' in Laughs In Space anthology, 2024
• 'Against the Grain' in hex literary, 2024
• 'The Brides, The Hunted' in Flash Fiction Online, 2024
• 'Sunbathers' in Cosmic Horror Monthly, 2024
• 'The Real Monsters Were The Children We Terrorized Along The Way' in Kaleidotrope, co-written with Sage Tyrtle, 2024
• 'bird, unboxed', in Hooghly Review, 2024
• 'Sea-Kist', 'The Price of Water', and 'The Kelpie' with Storiaverse, the smart story app, 2024
• 'Concerning the Photographs Taken Before and After Andrea's Wedding' in Stanchion, issue 14, 2024
• 'On The Wing' reprinted with Flash Fiction Online, 2024
• 'Root, Stem, Branch, Bud' in Necessary Fiction, 2024
• 'The Mirror Has Two Faces' in Scissor Sisters anthology, 2024
• 'The Immortal Game' in Apex Magazine, Issue 135, 2023
• 'history' in HAD, 2023 [Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated]
• 'Overstory' in HAD, 2023  [Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated]
• 'Cake by the Ocean' reprinted with Small Wonders, 2023
• 'I Am A Mongolian Death Worm' reprinted with Bulb Cult Collective, 2023
• 'Armageddon Bride' in Kaleidotrope, 2023
• 'The Acquisition' in The Horror Collection: LGBTQIA+ edition, 2023
• 'litterbug' in JAKE, 2023
• 'Hindbrain' reprint with Metastellar, 2023
• 'Cake by the Ocean' in The Razor, 2022
• 'Them At Number Seventy-Four' in Pseudopod, 2022
• 'Cipher' in Catapult 2022
• 'On The Wing' in Bear Creek Gazette, 2022
• 'Expiration Date' in Identity Theory, 2022
• 'Portrait of the Dead' in Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology 2022
• 'Wormwood' in Baba Yaga: Into The Forest, an anthology with Black Spot Books, 2022
• 'Turducken' in Baffling Mag, 2022
• 'MyGraine' in Typehouse Literary magazine, 2022
• 'Shark Facts My Grandma Told Me' in Icebreakers, co-written with Sage Tyrtle, 2022 [Best of the Net nominated]
• 'Upper Bout' in Flash Fiction Online, 2022
• 'The Weight of Feathers' in Janus Literary, 2022
• 'Hindbrain' in Fusion Fragment, Issue 12, 2022
• 'Drawback' in Et Sequitur, 2022
• 'The Wife Hunters' in Twin Pies, 2022
• 'June 323 BCE' in Flash Fiction Online, 2022
• 'Swallow' in Assignment Magazine, 2022
• 'Hysteria' in Bag of Bones This Is Too Tense anthology, 2022
• 'The Peter Principle' in Shoreline of Infinity, Vol 31, 2022
• 'Town Called Malice' in VASTARIAN, Vol 5: Issue 1, 2022
• 'Hitchhiker' in Apparition Lit, Issue 18: Wanderlust, 2022
• 'Half Sestina' in HAD, 2022 [Best of the Net nominated]
• 'Youngblood' in A Woman Built By Man anthology by Cemetery Gates, 2022
• 'Elmo's Struggle' in Catapult, 2022
• 'Harald Hardrada Intensifies' in Flashback Fiction, 2022
• 'wethers' in Broken Spine Arts, 2022
• 'Glean' in Bag of Bones's 206-Word Story Anthology, 2022
• 'Thread' in Cotton Xenomorph, 2022
• 'I Am A Mongolian Death Worm' in Bear Creek Gazette, 2021
• 'Paradise Regained' in Bear Creek Gazette, 2021
• 'Noir, La Gare' in Amplify, 2021
• 'Saturn's Ring' for the Midnight Society's Spooky Showcase, 2021
• 'Thief' in Orchid's Lantern, 2021
• 'Juncture' in Final Girl Bulletin, Daily Drunk magazine, 2021
• 'Beneath The Clean Cotton Mountain' in Trembling With Fear [online] 2021
• 'Glissade' in Cossmass Infinities, [print and online] 2021
• 'Heavenly Bodies' in Wrongdoing Magazine 2021
• '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 the 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:

• Second Place Edinburgh Writer's Club Novella Competition 2023
• First Place Edinburgh Writer's Club Novella Competition 2022 
• First Place Edinburgh Writer's Club Historical Novel Competition 2021 
• First Place Edinburgh Writer's Club Young Adult Competition 2020 
• Runner-Up in Shoreline of Infinity's Comedy Sci-Fi Competition 2020
• Back Patio Press Poetry Competition 2020 with Pabst Boy Stunna' 
• First Place Edinburgh Writer's Club Science Fiction Short Story competition 2019 
• Scriptwriting Perth One-on-One mentoring session with Annie George 2018 with short political play 'Zugzwang'
• Cazart Fiction Prize 2012 with 'Citrus Sinensis'

Listed:

• Longlisted for the Wigleaf Top Fifty, 2023
• Longlisted for the Dai Fry Award with Black Bough 2022
• Finalist in the Oxford Flash Fiction contest 2022
• Longlisted BIFFY50 Microfiction competition 2021
• Shortlisted Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2020
• Shortlisted Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2019 
• Shortlisted Spider Road Press Flash Fiction Competition 2019
• Shortlisted Bold Types Competition via Glasgow Women's Library 2019
• Shortlisted Flash-Bang! Fiction Crime Competition 2015

Published Work

Poetry:

• 'seasons' with Ghost Lit, issue #2 Hopeless/Romantic, 2025
• 'afterwards' with BS/WS for their erasure zine, Found Things, 2024
• 'The Empress' with Prismatica Press' burn book zine
• 'charon' with Persephone Lit, 2024
• 'The Definition of a Love Poem' in HAD, 2023 [Pushcart nominated]
• 'as dark things' in Impossible Archetype, 2023
• 'The Labours of Athena' with Olney magazine [online] 2022
• 'Picture It: Laurasia, the Cretaceous Period' in the Daily Drunk's Golden Girls zine [online] 2022
• 'Wildfire' with Powders Press [online] 2022
• 'waterlog' [reprint] in Levatio [online] 2021
• '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, 2020
• '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]

Edited/Hosted/Judged

• Elegant Literature's December 2023 competition, 'Wicked Wonderland'
• 'Revamped' A Buffy The Vampire Slayer zine in Fall 2022 for The Daily Drunk, 2023
• Pseudopod's Episode 857 'Of Dark That Bites'
• 'The Dark Side of Purity' zine in Summer 2022 for Band of Bards, November 2022

Featured

•  'A Personal Anthology' entry in September, 2023
• Guest reader at Story Hour, Aug 2023
• "The Immortal Game" mentioned in Locus Review 
• "The Immortal Game" reviewed at Grimoire Reliquiry
• "Upper Bout" mentioned in Locus Review
• "Refurbish Your Writer's Toolkit" in-depth analysis of my story MyGraine through a critical craft lens by YJ Jun
• A.C Wise's Favorite Short Stories of 2022
• Bookriot's 11 SPECULATIVE SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2023  Jan 2023
• 'Cipher' chosen by Pragya Agarwal as one of her favourite stories to feature in A Personal Anthology
• BookRiot's 8 Best Horror Stories Online Aug 2022
• Maria Haskins' round-up March 2022
• Pitch Contest Tips on Simeon Care's Youtube channel

Interviews/Podcasts:

• Writers HQ: Crossing Borders festival, Genre Writing as Resistance panel, September 2024
• Turn The Page podcast episode 314, September 2024
• How Can We Channel the Urgency and Fear of the Climate Crisis Into Speculative Fiction? blog post for the British Fantasy Society, June 2024
• Shining Moon: A Walk In The Dark, January 2024
• Five Questions with Finnian Burnett, October 2023
• Interview in Runaway, 2023
• Episode 21 of The Ghoulish Gallery, 2023
• Interview with CNN Travel, 2023
• Interview in episode 32 of PAGE CHEWING with Steve Talks Books: podcast version here, Youtube version here, November 2022
• Guest star on Flesh Cricket podcast, episode 190, October 2022
• Into The Forest: a Baba Yaga anthology with the Liverpool Echo, October 2022
• Q&A in The Herald, October 2022
• Interview with Feed My Reads, August 2022 
• 'Writer of the Month' interview with Elizabeth M. Castillo, 2021
• Smitten interview, featured in The Feathered Sleep 
• 'Discussing Her Body And Other Parties' in Your Own Words podcast
• Interview at Full House literary magazine

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

Comic work:

• 'Implantation' in Among the Stars: a SFF Romance comic anthology , 2024
• 'A Dark and Unmet Forest' in the Dark Side of Purity anthology, 2023