Leanne Phillips

My short story “Trees” was published today in a special issue of the New American Studies Journal on women and work in the nineteenth century. This is an abridged version of the story that won ScreenCraft’s 2023 Cinematic Short Story Competition and is one of the stories in the collection […]

I started a free Substack newsletter! It’s called ​My California​. I’m writing about California history, sharing personal anecdotes about growing up in California, and exploring other things I’m interested in—so far, this has meant ghosts and grizzly bears, earthquakes and elephant seals. I’ve got lots of little-known-facts coming up, too! […]

I started entering cinematic prose competitions last year. For me, it was an outside-the-box way to show potential literary agents that my unpublished novel has commercial potential. I recently talked with bookcoaches.com about my two writing contest wins, my advice for writers entering contests, the next steps for my book […]

Hi everyone! I started my writing blog The Write Stuff over at my book coaching website a little over 18 months ago, and now I’ve started a little newsletter for readers and writers. You can subscribe and have it delivered to your email inbox every other Thursday morning. Conventional wisdom […]

My short story “Trees” is having a really good week! Last Thursday, it was the grand prize winner in ScreenCraft’s 2023 Cinematic Short Story Competition. Before that, it was among the 50 pages of my unpublished novel that helped it become the book winner of Launch Pad’s 6th Annual Prose […]

I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Jennie Nash, CEO of Author Accelerator. We talked about my lifelong love of reading and writing, how I got derailed from my dream career in my twenties, my thirty-five-year career as a paralegal, and my long and winding path to becoming […]