DAREN DEAN
Publications
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The Novels
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Shelter Me, a Novel, (The University of West Alabama's Livingston Press, Forthcoming Fall 2025) NEW!
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Roads, A Novel (CJ Press, February 2023)
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The Black Harvest, A Novel (University of West Alabama Livingston Press, June 2021)
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This Vale of Tears (CJ Press, October 2021)
Far Beyond the Pale, A Novel (Fiction Southeast Press, July 2015)
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Short Story Collection
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The New Salvation and Other Stories (University of West Alabama Livingston Press, Spring 2025) NEW!
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I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone: Stories (CJ Press 2019)
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Awards
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Independent Fiction Alliance names Roads as one of the Top 25 Indie books of 2023!
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Received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, Lincoln University of Missouri, May 2022
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The Black Harvest shortlisted for the Missouri Author Award, March 2022
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The Black Harvest nominated for the Society of Midlands Author Award by The University of West Alabama’s Livingston Press, November 2021
The Black Harvest recently nominated for the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction by The University of West Alabama’s Livingston Press in October 2021
The Black Harvest recently nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award by The University of West Alabama: Livingston Press, October 2021
The Centralia Massacre, an excerpt from The Black Harvest, was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize by The University of West Alabama's Livingston Press, October 2021.
“Driving Dark in the Marlboro Night” (Short Story) nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Fiction Southeast, 2021
https://fictionsoutheast.com/driving-dark-in-the-marlboro-night/
“The Night Swimmer” from I’ll Still be Here Long After You’re Gone: Stories nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019 by Cowboy Jamboree Magazine (Originally published in StorySouth)
“Affliction,” Finalist in Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest for New Writers, 2012
“Bring Your Sorrow Over Here,” William Richey Short Fiction Award, Runner-up, Judge George Singleton, Yemassee, 19: 1, 2011, print
Select Book Reviews and Interviews
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Book Review
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Roads, A Novel, Kirkus Reviews, March 2023
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This Vale of Tears, A Novel, Kirkus Reviews, June 2022
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The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War, Kirkus Reviews, June 2021
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The Black Harvest by Daren Dean, The Fulton Sun, June 2021
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I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone, Reviewed in Columbia Tribune, December 20, 2019
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Interview
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Interview with Daren Dean by Shawn McMichael, Flyover Fiction, April 2022, online https://flyovercountryliterarymagazine.com/
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Book Reviews
Far Beyond the Pale, Reviewed in Columbia Tribune, January 2016
Far Beyond the Pale, Reviewed, HuffPost, August 2015
Interview
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Far Beyond the Pale in 1970’s Missouri: A Tiny Interview With Daren Dean, Ploughshares (2015)
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Literary Publications (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Interviews)
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Shrikes, Short Fiction, Revolution John, February 1, 2024
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The Pits of the World, Short Fiction, Maryland Literary Review, online, Forthcoming December 2022
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Tomorrow is a Long Time, Short Fiction, Blue Bob Anthology: An Anthology of Grit Lit Incited by Bob Dylan, Edited by Adam Van Winkle, December 7, 2022, Print
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Tomorrow is a Long Time, Short Fiction, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, The Breece D’J Pancake Issue: “New Fools Are Here to Take Your Place” Spring 2022, online
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The Dying Breed, Fiction, Flyover Country, July 2021
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Driving Dark in the Marlboro Night, Fiction, Fiction Southeast magazine, January 2020
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The G. I. Joe Christmas, Fiction, Bull (Men's Fiction), February 2020
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Sighing Prayer and Memorial Gardens, Poetry, Delta Poetry Review, June 2019
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Captain Marvel Goes Down in Gigolo Hall of Fame, Fiction, Maryland Literary Review, December 2018
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I’ll Still be Here Long After You’re Gone, Fiction, Cowboy Jamboree, Sept. 2018
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Faith Baby, fiction, Red Dirt Forum, Issue 2 Fall 2018, print
What's Your Philosophy? Star Trek Leadership Philosophy 101, nonfiction, CRIXEO, Sept. 2018
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The Night Swimmer, fiction, storySouth, Sept. 2016
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Novel excerpt from Far Beyond the Pale, TNB (The Nervous Breakdown), September 2015
Interview by TNB (J. Ryan Stradal), Sept. 2015
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The Four Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer, nonfiction, Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour online, August 2015 (*Authors Bill Roorbach and David Gessner)
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The Heavenly Language, fiction, Fiction Southeast, December 2014
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Why I Write, nonfiction, Fiction Southeast, December 2014
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The Misread Classic: Action Versus Meaning in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, nonfiction, Missouri Life, August 9, 2013.
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Signs of Terror, fiction, Aries Journal of Art and Literature, Spring 2013
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Twinkling, Fiction Southeast, Fall 2012
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The Mail Order Jesus, fiction, Midwestern Gothic, Summer 2012
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Interview with Gladys Swan, Ecotone, Summer 2012
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Fever, fiction, The Oklahoma Review, Spring 2012
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Affliction, fiction, Glimmer Train, Finalist in February 2012 short story contest
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Furious, Fiction Southeast, Fall 2011 (Issue includes Robert Olen Butler, Donald Ray Pollock, Joyce Carol Oates, Ron Carlson, others)
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Bring Your Sorrow Over Here, William Richey Short Fiction Award, Runner-up, Judge George Singleton, Yemassee, 19: 1, 2011
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Interview with Clyde Edgerton excerpt on Little, Brown's website and in the Reader's Guide for the paperback of The Bible Salesman.
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The Dead Flowers, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, 2009
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New Testament Liquor Store, Poetry Southeast, Spring 2007 Issue
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Resting Over Flat Branch Creek, poetry, StorySouth, Winter 2006
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Interview with novelist Clyde Edgerton, Image, Summer 2006, Print
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Idlewilde, Poetry Southeast, poem, Summer 2006, Print
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Exhalation, poem, Deck: Writing from the MFA Program UNC Wilmington-2003, Print
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Interview with poet James Kimbrell, Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXI, Number 2, Winter 2001, Print
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Interview with poet Claudia Keelan, Inscape, Winter 2001, Print
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Festival of the Great Rebellion, fiction, Ardentia (University of Missouri-Columbia), Number 5, Fall 1998, Print
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No Sanctuary, fiction, Stir Magazine, Spring 1998, Print