Hi Everyone!
I’m Lee, and some of you might remember me from Pop-up Submissions as I occasionally got up at 4am from the future to appear as a guest. So sad to see that fantastic programme go as it was a lot of fun and I made quite a few friends there. Plus, it is always nice to get a sneak peek at other people’s exciting projects. It’s been about five years since I released a novel proper and I think I have forgotten how to do it, if I ever knew at all, so my plan for this year is to write one – please keep me accountable! It’s a Lovecraftian action-horror on theme of grief. So far I have written no words, although I have some initial ideas. When I get going, it will be slow as I am a 500-word-a-day girl. I’m also working on a collaborative writing non-fiction work with a UK colleague, a collab poetry collection with a US poet, and I’m co-writer of horror feature film Grafted releasing from Monster/Headgear this year.
Based in Aotearoa-New Zealand (in the next shire over from Hobbiton), I am an author, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter. I’m a five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, NZ’s only Shirley Jackson Award winner, the first Kiwi writer to appear in Weird Tales 100-year history -- and some other stuff. In the dying days of 2023, I won New Zealand’s Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction, my country’s highest accolade for literature, which I’m still absolutely stunned about. I’m not agented, and I’m not published with any of the big publishers, and I write mainly speculative and horror, so it is something of a miracle.
This week’s fabulous news is that a short story of mine won Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Society Doylean Honour for Excellence in Fiction and Poetry for Maoriland Blue in the Terror of Blue John Gap Project (edited by Nancy Holder and Margie Deck). You can read for free here (RHS). ACD Society ... home
If you’re interested, there is more blah blah about me on my website. leemurray.info
Anyhoo, looking forward to connecting with everyone. Thanks for having me!
I’m Lee, and some of you might remember me from Pop-up Submissions as I occasionally got up at 4am from the future to appear as a guest. So sad to see that fantastic programme go as it was a lot of fun and I made quite a few friends there. Plus, it is always nice to get a sneak peek at other people’s exciting projects. It’s been about five years since I released a novel proper and I think I have forgotten how to do it, if I ever knew at all, so my plan for this year is to write one – please keep me accountable! It’s a Lovecraftian action-horror on theme of grief. So far I have written no words, although I have some initial ideas. When I get going, it will be slow as I am a 500-word-a-day girl. I’m also working on a collaborative writing non-fiction work with a UK colleague, a collab poetry collection with a US poet, and I’m co-writer of horror feature film Grafted releasing from Monster/Headgear this year.
Based in Aotearoa-New Zealand (in the next shire over from Hobbiton), I am an author, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter. I’m a five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, NZ’s only Shirley Jackson Award winner, the first Kiwi writer to appear in Weird Tales 100-year history -- and some other stuff. In the dying days of 2023, I won New Zealand’s Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction, my country’s highest accolade for literature, which I’m still absolutely stunned about. I’m not agented, and I’m not published with any of the big publishers, and I write mainly speculative and horror, so it is something of a miracle.
This week’s fabulous news is that a short story of mine won Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Society Doylean Honour for Excellence in Fiction and Poetry for Maoriland Blue in the Terror of Blue John Gap Project (edited by Nancy Holder and Margie Deck). You can read for free here (RHS). ACD Society ... home
If you’re interested, there is more blah blah about me on my website. leemurray.info
Anyhoo, looking forward to connecting with everyone. Thanks for having me!
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