Deborah Leslie

Writing

This page includes Deborah’s most recent publications and achievements.

To read individual pieces (if available), just click on the title of the work.

Poetry

  • A Different Name – The Candyman’s Trumpet (Issue #6)
  • The Neep – a seasonal poem shared online for Halloween.
  • The Art of Preservation – The Candyman’s Trumpet (Issue #4)
  • At Sea – Dementia Together magazine (2nd prize winner in the Poetry Competition 2025)
  • Fire Starter – Causeway/Cabhsair (Vol. 14), Aberdeen University Press
  • Auntie Tibby (Hen Killer) – Causeway/Cabhsair (Vol. 14), Aberdeen University Press
  • Jane – available to read on the Scottish Book Trust website

Prose

  • Bladdit – winner of the 2025 Robert McLellan Tassie for Scots Prose, published in Lallans 106
  • Wytin – winner of the 2024 Toulmin Prize
  • Skint – published in Eemis Stane (Issue 2), and highly commended in the 2023 Toulmin Prize
  • Mabel – in the Tales fae the Doric Side: An Anthology of New Writing in North-East Scots (2023)
  • The Quine in The Flooerie Frock – winner of the Buchan Heritage Prose Competition 2019
  • Numerous short stories for D.C. Thomson national magazines & the North-east’s Leopard magazine

Plays

  • The Clock on the Waa, performed at The Lemon Tree (WAC Theatre Company, 2008)

Articles

  • To read Deborah’s contributions to the Press and Journal‘s Doric Corner, click here.

For children

Doric short story collections