Lee Thompson
Lee D. Thompson is a writer, editor and book designer from Moncton who is a former executive director of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (2009-13). For more than 12 years he acted in various capacities with the WFNB: firstly as a board member, for which he has served four two-year terms, and then in the dual roles as newsletter editor and webmaster. Lee’s fiction has been published in five anthologies, including Random House’s Victory Meat, New Fiction from Atlantic Canada and Vagrant Press’s The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction, and in more than a dozen literary journals across Canada and the US. Lee’s first novel, S. a novel in [xxx] dreams, was published in 2008 by Fredericton’s Broken Jaw Press. A chapbook, “mouth human must die”, appeared with Frog Hollow Press in 2017.
Lee has twice been awarded emerging artist grants from artsnb, plus one mid-career grant, as well as two creation grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Long active in the Moncton literary scene, he has served on the programming committee for the Frye Festival and formerly ran the Attic Owl Reading Series. In 2014, Lee attended the Banff Writing Studio.
Currently, in between vast heaps of client editing, Lee is working on a slowly-evolving story collection and teasing out a new novel.
In addition to writing fiction, Lee is a guitarist and songwriter. He lives in Moncton with his partner Cindy.
Publications
“The Stranger at the Gate”, Ancrages 17, Moncton, New Brunswick (Fall 2018).
Novel excerpt, Breach House Anthology 4, breachousebooks 2017, Ed. Lee Thompson, Grand Barachois, NB
“Mouth Human Must Die”, Frog Hollow Press, New Brunswick Chapbook Series (January 2017), Ed. Shane Neilson, Victoria, BC
“A Survivor’s Guide to Engine Failure at 35,000 Feet”, Numero Cinq Magazine (January 2016), New York
“Diary of a Fluky Kid”, Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL (Fall 2014), Fierce Ink Press, Halifax
“A Serpent”, Numero Cinq Magazine (August 2014), New York
Diary of a Fluky Kid, Fierce Ink Press (a Fierce Short), Halifax, 2014
“The Astrapophobe”, The Breach House Anthology Vol III (Summer 2014), Eds. Edward Lemond & Nancy King Schofield, breachousebooks, Barachois, NB
“The Spirit of Bill will Forever Reside in Barney Springs”, Riddle Fence #16 (2013), St. John’s, NL
“Her, A Story”, “Hairball Man”, The Breach House Anthology Vol II (Fall 2012), breachousebooks, Ed. Edward Lemond, Barachois, NB
“North of Fury,” elllipse: a giant in time (#87/88, Spring 2012), Fredericton, Nb
“His Dinner Party,” Riddle Fence #5 (Spring 2010), St John’s, NL
“Night Divides the Day,” Hard Ol’ Spot (Fall 2009), Killick Press, Ed. Mike Heffernan, St. John’s, NF
“Slinky,” Nonymous 4 (Summer 2009), Fredericton, NB
“Our Continuing Saga,” Nonymous 1 (Fall 2008), Fredericton, NB
“Hairball Man,” Riddle Fence #2 (Summer 2008), St John’s, NL
S. a novel in [xxx] dreams (Dec. 2007), Broken Jaw Press, Fredericton, NB
“Abelard & I,” Two Hawks Quarterly (Fall 2007), Antioch University, Los Angeles, California
“Gull Island,” QWERTY (Spring 2007), Fredericton, NB
“Why Do Birds?” The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction (Spring 2007), Ed. Sandra McIntyre and M. Anderson, Halifax: Nimbus Publications
“The Man Who Sang So Well,” The Dalhousie Review (Fall 2006), Halifax, NS
“The Box.” Lichen Arts and Letters Prevue Vol. 8.2 (Fall 2006), Whitby, Ontario
“Moon Man.” The New Quarterly No. 90 (Summer 2004), St. Jerome’s University, Ontario
“Driftwood.” New Brunswick Stories. Ed. Dorothy Dearborn. Saint John: Neptune Publications (October 2003).
“The Whales.” Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada. Ed. Lynn Coady. Toronto: Random House (May 2003).
“Beyond the Valley Below.” The New Orphic Review Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2003), Nelson, BC
“The Deer.” The Nashwaak Review Vol. 11, No. 1 (Fall 2002), Fredericton, NB
“Haunted.” Gaspereau Review 16 ( Summer 2002), Wolfville, NS
“Sylvia.” Gaspereau Review 12 (Spring 2000), Wolfville, NS
“The Face.” Gaspereau Review 9 (Fall 1999), Wolfville, NS
