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Lindz McLeod

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Author and poet

Published Work


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:


  • '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

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