Judy LeBlanc's most recent book is a memoir, Permission to Land, published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2024. This follows The Broken Heart of Winter, her debut novel also published by Caitlin Press in winter, 2023. A collection of short stories was published by Oolichan Books, titled The Promise of Water. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous literary journals including Filling Station, The Malahat Review, Prism, Antigonish Review, Grain, Praire Fire, Fiddlehead and Geist. In 2015 she won the Islands Fiction contest. In 2012, she won the Antigonish Review’s Sheldon Currie Fiction contest and was longlisted for the CBC short story prize. She has written reviews for The Coastal Spectator and the Malahat Review. She has taught Creative Writing at North Island College and the North Island Writers Conference. She's a founding member and former artistic director for the Fat Oyster Reading Series in Fanny Bay on Vancouver Island.