finalist: 2018 Green Rose Poetry Prize (New Issues); 2019 Green Rose Poetry Prize (New Issues)
from (the unpublished full-length poetry manuscript) YOU/
- The Adroit Journal (#18, Fall, 2016): “Inside Out” and “Water Damage”
- The American Literary Review (2017): “The License Plate,” “Not An Anthem,” “Taken” and “Three Men”
- Apple Valley Review (Spring, 2016): “Diffusion”
- Apple Valley Review (Spring, 2015): “Volatiles” (nominated for 2015 Best of the Net)
- Barrow Street (Winter 2017/2018): “From/The Pines”
- Carve (Spring, 2017): “Own/Now”
- Carve Magazine: https://www.carvezine.com/from-the-editor/2017/3/28/qa-with-poetry-contributor-kevin-mclellan March 28, 2017 (interview)
- Colorado Review (Spring, 2016): “Intrinsic”
- december (27.1, Spring, 2016): “Concerning the Storm” and “After”
- Elohi Gadugi (Spring, 2015): “Frames”
- Gival Press (2016 Oscar Wilde Award): “Anonymity”
- Hamilton Stone Review (#32, Spring 2015): “About/Save/Face” and “In Sunglasses”
- Interim (Vol. 33, Issue 3, 2017): “Staying” and “The Killing Jar”
- Midway Journal (Vol 10, Issue #4 2016): “July”
- The Ocean State Review (2017): “Dog-eared” and “Rites”
- Posit (#14, 2017): “Inverses/A Pastoral” and “Somewhere a Messenger”
- Pouch (2017): “Sustain/Blue”
- Prelude (2018): “After a Long Winter” and “In Fog” https://preludemag.com/contributors/kevin-mclellan/
- The Puritan (#27, Fall 2014): “Doors” (finalist: Thomas Morton Prize judged by Margaret Atwood)
- Ruminate (#36, Fall, 2015): “You Grip a Key” (finalist: Janet B. McCabe poetry contest
- Ruminate (#35, Summer, 2015): “Empathy” (nominated for the Orison Anthology)
- Salamander (2017): “Dis/Arming” and “The North Sky”
- Sugar House Review (2017): “Cold Enough for Snow,” “An Alberta Clipper,” “Snowflakes” and “Other Music”
- Third Coast (Fall, 2015): “Thereafter” (winner: the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize) and “Compounds”
- Thrush Poetry Journal (July 2014): “I’m Not Coming Home Anymore”
- Western Humanities Review (Volume 69.2, Winter 2015): “Demarcate”
