Publications
A full catalog of Leah Skay’s published works organized by genre and chronology. While many works are available freely online, many printed works are available for purchase through their magazine’s homesites or secondary sources. Support artists! Support your favorite mags!
SKIP to FICTION, NONFICTION, POETRY, or UPCOMING by using these links! Hope you find something you like!
Award Winning Work
“Social Creatures” (Fiction)
Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Arts and Literature, Issue 6, 2024
*FIRST PRIZE, Ithaca Writing Department 2020
LONGLIST, Iron Horse Literary Review Long Story Contest, 2022
“Devotee of the Bog Witch” (Poetry)
Sunspot Literary Magazine, 2024
*Editor’s Prize for Issue 6, Vol. 2
“Walking on Eggshells” (Fiction)
Iron Horse Literary Review, 2019
SHORTLIST, Iron Horse Literary Review Photofinish Contest
Fiction
“Notes on New Years Parties You Missed”
The Quarter(ly), Vol. 13, 2025
The Bloomin’ Onion, 2025
“8 Steps to Bagging the Pool Boy”
The Bloomin’ Onion, 2025
“From the Cold Case of Audra Owens”
The Word’s Faire, 2025
Poets Choice, Hitting the Dead End: A Collection of Short Stories, 2024
ACC Progenitor 58, 2023 (pg. 47-48)
Rowayat Journal, Issue 6, 2023
“The Cat Died Today”
Stillwater Magazine, 2020 (PRINT ONLY)
Creative Nonfiction
45th Parallel Magazine, 2025
Dunes Review, 28.2, 2025
“I Think I Know Why I Am Afraid”
The Ocotillo Review, Vol. 7.1, 2023
Hoxie Gorge Review, 2023
“Three Hours in an Onsen: My Excursion into Legal Public Nudity”
You Might Need to Hear This, 2023
Stoneboat Literary, Issue 12, 2022
Hive Avenue Literary Journal, Issue 6, 2022
“A Girl, Stagnant, Asks Her Backyard for Advice”
Stillwater Magazine, 2020 (PRINT ONLY)
Poetry
LIT Magazine, 2025
The Bookends Review, 2025
“We Had / And Chose Desk Jobs Instead”
Have Has Had (HAD), 2025
Festival for Poetry, WILDsound Writing Festival, 2024
Wingless Dreamer Books, Roots and Leaves Anthology, 2024
“from The Well”
Moonstone Arts Center, New Voices Spring, 2024
Upcoming
“Trophy Hunter”
Ink in Thirds, 2025
“We Regret to Inform You”
BULL, 2025