Just a writing update from rainy Belfast! I’m working on a new body horror short story collection, inspired by the experience of body dysmorphia. I’m no stranger to body horror, as my novel Matthew’s Twin has a lot of it, and there’s some in my novella, Zombie Reflux, in my collection, Diabolical Dreamscapes. Some of the stories in it will be quite ghostly, but others are just pure and utter corporeal horror… so brace yourself.
If you’ve ever experienced body dysmorphia, you’ll be able to relate to my new body horror work in progress. I’m working on it while also working on a new novel draft, a psychological horror set in Belfast, although unrelated to my previously published Belfast Ghosts series.
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 
Good to hear you’re getting it all out there, Leilanie, and best of luck with it. 🙂