Graduated MPhil with Distinction from Glasgow University Creative Writing programme, November 2006

Publications to date

•  In Memoriam (2002): in Writing Wrongs, Canongate. Winner of 2002 Canongate Prize for New Writing
• Nodding Off (2003): in A Fictional Guide to Scotland, ed. Suhayl Saadi, Meaghan Delahunt. OpenInk*
• Inspecting a Preserved Brain (2004). Prizewinner, McCash Scots Poetry Competition, Published in The Herald
• And If You Know… (2005): The Celtic View, July 26^th 2005
• Unto Me (2005): The Bandsman, Christmas edition, 2005
• Tattooed Love Boys (2006): in Snacks After Swimming, Freight
• Slow Time in Heaven (2006): in The Herald, 3^rd June 2006
• The Lexicon of Love (2006): in Outside of a Dog, Chroma
• Einstein and the Bears (2007): co-authored under name of Ann Dreamwood, in The Herald 28^th April 2007
• ZedTee (2007): in The Dreaming City, DEMOS
• Nicol’s Walk (2011): Causeway Magazine, Volume 2
• Inspecting a Preserved Brain (2012): In The Smeddum Test, 21^st Century Poems in Scots, Lesley Duncan and Alan Riach (eds).
• Local Gravitational Fluctuations (2012): in The Smeddum Test, 21^st Century Poems in Scots, Lesley Duncan and Alan Riach (eds). Also published in The Herald, 2014
• Gleniffer Braes (2012): in The Smeddum Test, 21^st Century Poems in Scots, Lesley Duncan and Alan Riach (eds)
• In for a Penny (2014): In Making Waves anthology (New Voices Press)
• A Colder Kiss (2014): in Making Waves anthology (New Voices Press)
• A Distant Feeling (2015): HarperVoyager ebook short story (July 2015) . Winner of HarperVoyager/BFI National Science Fiction competition
• Novel – The Dark Side of the Moon – published by Freight Books in 2016
• Thirteen Above (2019): In Causeway Magazine Volume 10 Association for Scottish Literary Studies
• Sconser In The Storm (2019): In Causeway Magazine Volume 10
• Statement (2021): In New Writing Scotland 39 (Association for Scottish Literary Studies)

Others:

When Sara Was Nine, longlisted for Fish short short story competition, 2005

Lee Marvin, shortlisted for McCash Scots Poetry Competition, 2005

* “The star [of the anthology] is the superb ‘Nodding Off’…” The List

“Les Wood does a convincing Glasgow patter in ‘Nodding Off’ [which] gently leads the reader to the brink of an impossible choice.” The Scotsman