Bibliography
Lee BSc, MSc (Tech) Hons, MMS Dist (Waikato)
FICTION WORKS
NOVELS/NOVELLAS
BATTLE OF THE BIRDS (Taramea) junior fantasy novel, 2011
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Youth Novel, 2011
A DASH OF REALITY (Oceanbooks) contemporary women’s novel, 2011
Listed in Sunday Star Times Best Books for Youth of 2011
MISPLACED (Leapy Sheep) YA contemporary novel, 2013 (with Creative NZ/NZSA mentor Graeme Lay)
CONSUMED in A Foreign Country (Random Static), A Caro and J Buchanan eds, 2010
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist for Best Novella, 2010
CAVE FEVER in Regeneration (Random Static), A Caro and J Buchanan eds, 2013
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella 2013
CONCLAVE SEVEN in Conclave: A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Leapy Sheep) 2014
MIKA co-written with Piper Mejia (Paper Road Press), April 2015, and in print SHORTCUTS: TRACK 1 Dec 2015
First: SpecFicNZ Shortcuts Novella Competition, 2014
INTO THE MIST New Zealand speculative military thriller, April 2016, Cohesion; 2018 Severed Press.
International Bram Stoker Award Longlist for Superior Achievement in a Novel 2016
Australian Shadows Award Finalist for Best Novel, 2017
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, 2016
INTO THE SOUNDS, New Zealand speculative military thriller, August 2018, Severed Press.
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, 2018
INTO THE ASHES, New Zealand speculative military thriller, February 2019, Severed Press.
International Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2019
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist, 2019 (awards announced August 2020)
HOUNDS of the UNDERWORD: Bk 1 of THE PATH OF RA (with Dan Rabarts), RDSP (USA) July 2017
International Bram Stoker Award Longlist for Superior Achievement in a Novel 2017
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, 2017
TEETH OF THE WOLF: Bk 2 of THE PATH OF RA (with Dan Rabarts), RDSP (USA) September 2018
Australian Shadows Award Finalist for Best Novel 2019
DAWN OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE middle grade novel (IFWG Australia), October 2019
Forthcoming Novel
BLOOD OF THE SUN: Bk 3 of THE PATH OF RA (co-written with Dan Rabarts), RDSP (USA) 6 November 2020
Forthcoming Collection
GROTESQUE: MONSTER Stories (Things in the Well Publishing, Australia), July 2020
SHORT FICTION & POETRY
MAHI RANGIMARIE (Peaceful Pursuits) and COMET TEEN (poem) in Double Vision (Tauranga Writers), 2010
FORECAST FOR APRIL in Bravado 19, March 2010, reprinted 2017 in New Orbit Magazine, vol1.
FREEFALL (published online) 2011
Third: Franklin Writers Award, 2011
Finalist: Whakatane FOTL National Writing Competition, 2011
THE RED CARDIGAN on NSZA website, and also in Breeze, vol 2, 2012
Third: NZSA Inaugural Asian Short Story Award, 2012
HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS on website of NZ Royal Society, 2012
Finalist: Royal Society Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing, 2012
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Short Story 2012
SIX SECRETS (not currently in print)
Finalist: NZSA Inaugural Asian Short Story Award, 2012
DUCKS AND BUTTERFLIES (not currently in print)
Finalist: NZSA Asian Short Story Award, 2013
CON SOMME PASSIONE in Baby Teeth, Paper Road Press, 2013
PETER AND THE WOLF in Baby Teeth, Paper Road Press, 2013
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL in Baby Teeth, Paper Road Press, 2013
INSIDE FERNDALE in SQ Mag, vol 10, 2014, also Star Quake Anthology Best of 2014
First: IFWG SQ Mag Story Quest International short story prize, 2013
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Short Story, 2015
JAKEN HARVEST (not currently in print)
Second: Conclave After the War Competition, 2014
BELLS and THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME in Twisty Christmas Tales (Phantom Feather Press) 2014
THE CHINESE PEOPLE STREET (not currently in print)
Third: SpecFicNZ World War I Centenary Competition, 2014
The LESSON in Byline, vol 1, September 2015.
THE THIEF’S TALE in The Refuge Collection (SDP) Nov 2015.
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Short Story, 2016
MARIE in Capricious Magazine, vol3, March 2016.
SELFIE in SQ Mag: Symbiosis, Edition 26, May 2016
Australian Shadows Award Finalist for Best Short Story, 2017
RESTLESS in SNAFU: UNNATURAL SELECTION Geoff Brown and AJ Spedding (eds), Cohesion, 2017
HALLOWEEN PROM in Spooky Halloween Drabbles, Roy Booth and Jorges Reeves (eds), 2016
TRACKERS in Between the Tracks: Tales from the Ghost Train, Steve Dillon (ed), OzHorror, 2017
SANTA’S SURPRISE in Shades of Santa, Steve Dillon (ed), OzHorrorCon, 2017
PENNY DIVERS in Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep, Steve Dillon (ed) Things in the Well, 2018
BAIRD’S LEGACY part 1 in Cryptozoological Tales - Monstrous, Adrenalin Shots, April 2018
BAIRD’S LEGACY part 2 in Cryptozoological Tales - Monstrous, Adrenalin Shots, April 2018
DEAD END TOWN in Cthulhu Deep Down Under, vol2, Stevens, Sequiera, and Proposch (eds), IFWG, June 2018
International Bram Stoker Award finalist for Superior Achievement in a Short Story
Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading List, 2019 — Best Horror of the Year Vol11
MAUI’S HOOK in Kaiju Rising II, Nick Sharps and Alana Joli Abbott (eds), Outland Publications, Sept 2018
EDWARD’S JOURNAL in Cthuhlu Aotearoa, Stevens Sequiera and Proposch (eds), IFWG Publishing, Sept 2018
Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading List, 2019 — Best Horror of the Year Vol11
A SINGLE POINT, poem, in Byline, vol 4, Dec 2018
MAIDEN FLIGHT in 100-word Horrors Part 2, Kevin Kennedy (ed), A Kevin J Kennedy Production, 2019
PRESERVING JAR in 100-word Horrors Part 2, Kevin Kennedy (ed), A Kevin J Kennedy Production, 2019
LIFEBLOOD Grimdark Magazine, Issue #19, Adrian Collins (ed), June 2019.
OUT OF THE SHADOWS in The Monarchies of Mau: Tales of Excellent Cats, Melanie Meadors (ed), 2019
DEAR CHRISTINE poem in HWA Poetry Showcase VI, Stephanie Wytovich (ed), 2019
HOW TO CATCH AN EEL IN THE 70s poem in Byline vol 5, 2019
HELL PIGS AND OTHER FUTURES poem in Byline vol 5, 2019
SELKIE LOVE flash fiction in Guilty Pleasures, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, Australia, 2019
MONSTER PARTY flash fiction in Guilty Pleasures, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, Australia, 2019
THE NEW BREED novelette in Blood, Brains, and Bullets, Chris McNally (ed), Screaming Banshee, 2019
THIS OTHER DOOR with Dan Rabarts, flash fiction in Shallow Waters 3, Joe Mynhardt (ed) Crystal Lake, 2019
LOSING FACE short story in Tales of the Lost, Eugene Johnson and Steve Dillon (eds), Things in the Well, 2019
Current finalist in 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards
SEASONAL GROWTH short fiction / prose poem in Infected, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, 2020
5 HAIKU poems in Infected, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, 2020
Forthcoming:
THE GOOD WIFE, short fiction in Weird Tales, Jonathan Maberry (ed), October 2020
DREAMTIME, with Nicola Lombardi, short fiction in The Best of Indie Horror, Kevin Kennedy (ed), KJKP, 2020
LESSONS FROM POE poem, Space and Time Magazine, Linda D Addison (ed), #137, 20 June 2020
AT MARATOTO POOL short fiction, in One of Us, Kenneth W Cain (ed.) Publisher tba.
WEEPING WATERS short fiction, commissioned - TBA, 2020
HEART MURMURS, short fiction, commissioned - TBA, 2020
PERMANENT DAMAGE, short fiction, commissioned - TBA, 2020
PHOENIX CLAWS, short fiction, commissioned - TBA, 2020
FRANGIPANI DREAMS, short fiction, commissioned - TBA, 2020
MARTHA MINE:SUITE 101 flash fiction, commissioned - TBA 2021
RETOURNE poem in HWA Poetry Showcase VII, Stephanie Wytovich, 2020
A CURATED GARDEN poem in Byline Vol 6, Tauranga Writers, 2020
ANTHOLOGIES
WRITE OFF LINE: YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND (Oceanbooks) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2012
WRITE OFF LINE: TEENAGERS ARE AN ALIEN SPECIES (Tauranga Writers) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2013
BEYOND THIS AGE (Oceanbooks) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2013
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist Best Collected Work, 2013
BEYOND THIS STORY (Tauranga Writers) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2014
BABY TEETH: BITE-SIZED TALES OF TERROR (Paper Road Press) co-editor Dan Rabarts, 2013
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Collected Work, 2013
Winner: Australian Shadows Award Best Edited Work, 2014
AT THE EDGE (Paper Road Press) co-editor Dan Rabarts, speculative fiction by NZ Australian writers, June 2016
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Collected Work, 2016
Australian Shadows Award Finalist Best Edited Work, 2017
WRITE OFF LINE: ALTER EGO (Young NZ Writers) co-editor Grace Bridges, October 2017
TE KORERO AHI AKA (SpecFicNZ) co-editors Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton, 2018
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Collected Work, 2018
TIMEGATE TO TOMORROW Grace Bridges and Lee Murray (eds), Young NZ Writers, 2018
HELLHOLE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SUBTERRANEAN TERROR (Adrenaline Press, USA) 2018.
International Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Winner: Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work, 2019
TRICKTERS TREATS #3: SEVEN DEADLY SINS co-editor Marie O’Regan, Things in the Well, Australia, October 2019
Finalist: Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work, 2020
BREACH Vols 11 &12 guest editor, Breachzine, Australia, October & December 2019
SCARY TALES (Young NZ Writers), June 2020
Forthcoming Anthology
BLACK CRANES (Omnium Gatherum) co-editor Geneve Flynn, July 2020