Amy leBlanc

Articles and Academic Work

• “Buried alive and suffocating to death”: Body Horror and Gothic Embodiment in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow.” Forthcoming in The Handbook of Body Horror, TBD.
•  “(De)composing Gothicism: Disturbing the (eco-)Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” co-authored with Leah Van Dyk, Studies in American Fiction.
• “Gothic Gaming: The Ill Body and the Haunted House in Kitty Horrorshow’s Anatomy,” Game Studies, 2024.
• “Think about what you don’t get to see”: Reading Ghosts and Unnatural Narration in Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook” forthcoming in The Journal of Narrative Theory (56.1), 2026
• “The Uncanny and Doubling Horror of Childhood: Abject Disruptions in Stranger Things,” Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). 
• “‘Do you trust your friends?’: Horror, Narrative Authority, and Parkdale Haunt” forthcoming in Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror (TBC) 
• “Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl Music,” co-authored with Ryanne Kap (forthcoming in Music In/As Literature, under contract with Lexington Books).
• “(Me=Aquarius=very unpredictable) Ghostliness and Temporality in Tamaki & Tamaki’s Skim,” in Gnosis.

Poetry

• “Letter to a Young Arachnid” The New Quarterly (forthcoming 2025)
• “A moment of mourning suspended in air” Canadian Medical Association Journal (2024)
• “The witch gets sick and her stomach is full of hair” THIS Magazine (2023)
• “Fulmination” Canadian Literature (2023)
• “Sympathetic Magic II” and “February” Contemporary Verse 2 (2023)
• “Murine” The Fiddlehead (2023)
• “The Leech House” and “Pareidolia” Riddle Fence (2022)
• “Whale Songs” Arc Poetry Magazine (2022)
• “Come closer and see” and “March” Funicular (2022)
• “A message for one hundred and sixty rooms” Cypress Press: The Red House Anthology (vol. 2) (order a copy here) (2022)
• “Spatial Awareness” The Maynard (2021) 
• “Sympathetic Biology” the way out is the way in: an anthology of disabled poets from the League of Canadian Poets edited by Stuart Ian McKay (2021) 
• “Branches in the shape of an open hand” LongCon (2021)
• “Fish” Poetry Pause from the League of Canadian Poets (2021)- honourable mention in the 2021 Broadsheet Contest
• “Brine” “Hecate’s Daughter” and “older sister, younger sister” Deathcap (2021)
• “Cedar” Blindman Brewing Session Stories (2021) 
• “The Storied Life of Grace Poole” and “Dear Emily” Headcanon Magazine Issue 1: The Bells (2021) 
• “I know something you don’t know” Alberta Views (2021)
• “Something in the Water” and “Begrime” Lida Literary Magazine (2020) 
• “Immune system malfunction” “A small painting of a single eye” “A ghost in a field where no one goes” and “Undead Juliet at the Museum” The TEMZ Review (2020)
• “Yersinia Pestis in Alberta” Watch Your Head (2020)
• “The Falls” Pulp Literature (2020) 
• “Well Woman” Freefall (finalist for a 2021 Alberta Magazine Publishers showcase award for poetry)
• “Musca” Acta Victoriana (2020)
• “In rutting season” Minola Review (2020)
• “Patchwork” Grain (2019) 
• “Recipes in a dead language” Poetry Pause, fromthe League of Canadian poets (2019)
• “The girl who turns to bone” The Literary Review of Canada (2019)
• “I know something you don’t know” PRISM International (2019) 
• “When a bird crouched on Anne Boleyn’s neck,” GUEST- edited by Adams D. W. (2019)
• “specimens found in a homemade biorepository near nose hill” Chaudiere Books, National Poetry Month (2019)
• “Animal Mesmerism” and “Conduits” Train: a poetry journal (2019) 
• “The fox changes his fur” Paperplates (2019)
• “Recipes in a dead language” and “Flannery” Contemporary Verse 2 (2019)
• “Rosa Alchymist” Literary Orphans (2019)
• “We don’t know what happened to the hikers” Door is A Jar (2019)
• “To Spot a Fox” Vamp Cat Magazine (2018)
• “Tesserae” Geez (2018)
• “Kites” Filling Station (2018) 
• “Fragments” Cauldron Anthology (2018)
• “Girls reading in red coats” Flypaper (2018)
• “The Brief Reincarnation of Mary Webster on the Amtrak from Boston to New York” Big Smoke (2018)
• “Spells for a Husband” and “Clamour” Pussy Magic (2018)
• “Hair: An Elegy” Boned: a collection of skeletal writings (2018)
• “Good Mothers” and “The Wasting Sickness” talking about strawberries all of the time (2018)
• “Insomuch” EVENT (2018)
• “Tarantella” “In the Wych Elm” “Mary Mary” Vessel Press (defunct) (2018)
• “Waxwings” Room Magazine (2018)
• “Hemlock” Spilt Milk(2018)
• “Wintering,” Frontier (2018) 
• “Sickle” and “For Agnes,” Black Dog Review (2018) 
• “Night Apparition” and “Fragments” Awkward Mermaid (2018) 
• “Swell,” Open Minds Quarterly 1^st place, Brainstorm Poetry Contest (2018)
• “Clove,” Open Minds Quarterly runner up, Brainstorm Poetry Contest (2018)
• “Housekeeping,” “Intrude,” and “Luna,” The Anti-Languorous Project (2018) 
• “Are you paying attention?” The Antigonish Review (2018)
• “Gwen Stacy” Augur Magazine (2018)
• “Vegetate” Clockwise Cat (2018)
• “Witching” and “Alfred’s Body,” Rejected McSweeney’s (2018)
• “Letter Enclosed” Blanket Sea (2018)
• “Unfolding” and “Briar” The Warren(2018)
• “Charlotte” Prairie Fire (2017) 
• “Hereafter,” The Puritan (2017)
• “Three Summers,” Untethered (2017)
• “Anchor,” Canthius (2017) 
• “Moths” “Wafer” and “Frisson” White Wall Review (2017) 
• “Bugs in Jars” Ascent Aspirations (2017)
• “This is about someone else,” Plenitude Magazine (2017)
• “Seams” Three Elements Review (2017)
• “Anchor in the Garden” Pøst Revue (2017)
• “Bramble,” “Sanguinaria,” and “Salt” Open Minds Quarterly (2017)
• “Hereafter,” Eleventh Transmission, 45 poems project (2017)
• “Moment(oh)” (Parenthetical), defunct, (2016)
• “Tremor,” Petal Journal (2016)

Fiction

• “Twisted” The Minola Review- finalist for the inaugural fiction contest judged by Heather O’Neill (2020)
• “Sirens” Blank Spaces (2020)
• “Homebodies” Trouble Among the Stars (2018)
• “Nectar and Nickel” In/Words (2018)
• “Taxidermy for Dummies” The Feathertale Review (2018) 
• “Home Burial,” Release Any Words Stuck Inside of You, an Untethered Collection of Shorts (2018) 
• “Lady Grey” The Anti-Languorous Project Issue 2 (2018) 
• “Wisteria” Persephone’s Daughters (2018)
• “Bruised Plums” The Town Crier (2017)
• “what we lost in the fire,” (Parenthetical) Blodwyn Memorial Prize, fiction category, 2^nd place (2016)
• “Girls Eat Bugs” NōD Magazine (2016)