Fiery World Amazon Kindle
The German Crowd Subnivean Magazine
52 Men Red Hen Press, 2015
See Why Can’t You Be Pretty? LARB
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In the Pines
Supported by a grant from Creative New Zealand : Excerpt:
In-The-Pines-2-2Miss Me A Lot Of (Victoria University Press, New Zealand) 2007
Excerpted in Best New Zealand Fiction 1 (Random House)
Finalist, Prize in Modern Letters
Since You Ask (Akashic Books, New York) 2004
(Stolista Press, Moscow)
Winner of the James Jones First Novel Award
Other Writing
On Feminism in New Zealand & The F Word, New Zealand Books
On E.L. Grant’ Wilsons’ The Nun and the Bandit and living in outback Australia on Tin House.com
Luxury on Akashic Books.com, Thursdaze Serie
Life Invisible on Hamish Clayton, New Zealand Books
Gargoyle 64 (Feature)
Fiction Advocate (Five stories)
“The Shipping Tycoon” The Creative Process
“The Boxer” The Creative Process
“Joel, Paul, Bob, Lou, and Timothy” Fiction Advocate
“Five Easy Pieces” The Rumpus
“Three Men” Tin House, The Open Bar
“52 Men” Gargoyle 64 (Feature)
“Jonathan” KGB Lit Mag
“Miss Me A Lot Of” Best New Zealand Fiction 1 (R House) “Fiery World” POST Magazine
“Ted” (print and audio) Gargoyle (forthcoming 2019)
“First Love, Horticulture” New Zealand Listener
“Regrets from Abroad” Turbine.com
“Some Wrong” Poetry
“Object” Poetry
“Compulsion” Poetry
“Miss Me A Lot Of” Hotel Amerika
“Empire State” Quarter After Eight
Essays/Non-Fiction
Tin House Lost & Found:
On E. L. Grant Watson and outback Australia Tin House online
“How to Date a Writer” The Rumpus
“Ways to Break Up and Not be Friends” ThoughtCatalog
“The Workshop & the Work” Newswrite, Sydney
“Artist Books Afloat” Art Monthly Australia
Words on Wheels ` Booknotes
“Why I Left the 12 Step Movement” TheFix.com
“Shuker and After” (The IIML Awards) Leafsalon.co.nz
Selected Reviews by L Wareham Leonard
“Bearing Witness, Again” on Lizzie Marvelly & Feminism, New Zealand Books, 2019
“Life invisible” on The Pale North by Hamish Clayton, New Zealand Books, 2018
“Sentences by James Hynes Using the Word Middle-Age In No Particular Order, Up to Page 05” Nympholespy.net, 2011
“Girl, Uninterrupted,” on Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann, August 2010, The Listener
“Starry-eyed in New York” on Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, August 2009, The Listener
“Return to Manderley,” on Daphne Du Maurier, May 2007, The Listener
“Don’t Fight Back” on Non-Violence The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky, February 2007, The Listener
“CSI Hollywood” on Parallel Lies by Stella Duffy, 2005, The Listener
“Rolling in it”on Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, November 2005, The Listener
Additional Reviews in The New Zealand Listener, The Dominion Post, LeafSalon:
“The Precocious Ms Krauss” Nicole Krauss
“Reality used to be a friend of mine” DBC Pierre
“That was Holmes, Last Century” Julian Barnes
“So Bad” Katherine Harrison
“Visa… So vat?” Marina Lewycka
“Festival of Miracles” Alice Tawhai
”From Here to Maternity” Emma Neale
“What a Swell Party This Is” Adrienne Miller
“Reasons to Believe” J.M. Coetzee
“Carving Out Hope” Tina Shaw
“Talk Talk” TC Boyle
Three Middle Eastern Novels Hamid, Aswany, Hosseini
Selected Reviews of Louise’s Work
“So Dizzyingly Close,” Fourteen Lines: A Sonnet Obsession, Nov 2018
Why Can’t You Be Sweet, a feature essay by Amanda Fortini in the LARB
Kirkus Reviews, May 2015
Bookshots, “52 Men”, Brian McGackin, LitReactor, 2015
“52 Men,”Paul Dodd, Popwars
“The Question of Loneliness,” Michelle Elvy, Landfall Review, 2016
“Looking for Love” Kirsten McDougal, New Zealand Books, 2016
”52 Men” Simon Sweetman, Off the Tracks, 2016
“Best Books of the Year,” Guy Somerset, The Listener, 2015
“Riches in Abundance,” Louise O’Brien, Book of the Week, The Dominion Post, 2007
A review on “GOOD MORNING TV ONE” Laura Kroesch, 2007
A Review on Speaking Volumes, Mary McCullum 2007
“Fathers and daughters at arm’s length,” Philippa Jamison, New Zealand Herald, 2007
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Flagrant,” Iain Sharp, Sunday Star Times, 2007
“A Damn good Shakeup,” Beryl Fletcher, New Zealand Books, 2007
“DO READ,” Cleo New Zealand, 2007
“Questions without Answers,” Emily Maguire, Sydney Morning Herald, 2006
Best Books, Dame Fiona Kidman, The Listener, 2005
Best Books, Guy Somerset, The Listener, 2004
Since You Ask, Entertainment Weekly #766, 2004
“Girls, Uninterrupted,” Jolisa Gracewood, The Listener, 2004
“All About My Father,” Caren Wilton, The Listener, 2004
Since You Ask, David Hill, Radio New Zealand, 2005
Since You Ask, Jennifer Przybylski, Rain Taxi 2004
Since You Ask, Beth Leistensider, Booklist, 2004
Since You Ask, Lori O’Dea, American Book Review, 2004
Since You Ask, Stephen M Deusner, Pop Matters, 2004
Since You Ask, Deborah Humphreys, The Olive Press, 2004
Since You Ask, Amy Lotven, Smile Magazine, 2004
Since You Ask, Moira RIchards, Crescent Blues Book Views, 20004
Since You Ask, Darcy Cosper, Westchester Journal, 2004
Since You Ask, Collen Hollister, Small Spiral Notebook, 2004
Since You Ask, Janet McAllister, Canvas Magazine, 2004
“Uncomfortably Numb”Leafsalon, 2004
“Top Shelf Reading” Guy Somerset, The Listener, 2004
Selected Interviews:
Down the Rabbit Hole with Louise Wareham Leonard, CarolineLeavittville.blogspot.com, 2015
Five Questions for Louise Wareham Leonard, New Zealand Festival Magazine, 2015
Judith Regan Show, Sirius XM, New York, 2015
The Red Hen Press Launch of 52 Men, Los Angeles, 2015
Red Hen Press Launch of 52 Men, KGB Bar, Red Room, New York, 2015
Visiting Author, Genesee Reading Series, New York, 2014
Visiting Writer, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 2013
Brisbane Writers Festival (Speaker), 2011
Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival (Speaker), Sydney, 2010
“Chat Room” Television Hawkes Bay, Feb 2008
“Nine to Noon” with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand, 2007
“Book Show” TV One with Emily Perkins and Finlay Macdonald, 2007
“Since We Ask,” A (Print) Interview by Kimberly Rothwell, The Dominion Post, 2007
Auckland Writers Festival (Panelist/Speaker), 2007
Wellington Writers Festival (Guest Panelist/Reader, 2007
PODCAST: Founder and Host of 52 Men: Women Telling Stories About Men
Each episode features Louise W. Leonard and one writer. Participants include:
- Amelia Negrepoti
- Lynne Tillman
- Jane Alison
- Janis Freegard
- Aurelie Sheehan
- Caroline Leavitt
- Rebecca Baumann
- Julia Slavin
- Siel Ju
- Emily Holleman
- Lisa Locascio
- Megan Giddings
- Andrea Vacher
- Kim Bailey
- Amy Hassinger
- Megan Giddings
- Lisa Locascio
- Saradha Karolia
- Eliza Factor
- Lisa Grunberger
- Melissa Green
- Seema Reeza
- Victoria Lancelotta
- Mia Funk
- Binnie Klein