DAREN DEAN
PUBLICATIONS | Books
Novels
1) Shelter Me, A Novel of the 2016 Louisiana Flood, University of West Alabama, Livingston Press, Forthcoming Fall 2025
2) Roads, A Novel, Cowboy Jamboree Press, February 14, 2023
https://darendean.wixsite.com/daren-dean/roadsLinks to an external site.
3) This Vale of Tears, A Novel, Cowboy Jamboree Press, October 2021
https://www.amazon.com/This-Vale-Tears-Daren-Dean/dp/B09JVLZYS6Links to an external site.
4) The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War, The University of West Alabama, Livingston Press, June 2021
Link: https://livingstonpress.uwa.edu/The%20Black%20Harvest.htmLinks to an external site.
5) Far Beyond the Pale, A Novel, Fiction Southeast Press, July 2015 (Out of print)
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Far-Beyond-Pale-Daren-Dean/dp/0692347623/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V84QKGNCW8W0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8kbvaEKIiD0OAbaqGYyx6bziiOFZJBvim8BbJcLH4iPGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.-ESowzhNnyVb0gKKy7i2GGzNd4-g40y2q28JpkywJCY&dib_tag=se&keywords=far+beyond+the+pale&qid=1719859430&s=books&sprefix=far+beyond+the+pale%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-1Links to an external site.
Short Story Collection
The New Salvation And Other Stories, Cowboy Jamboree Press, Forthcoming Spring 2025
CJ Contract Dean The New Salvation.pdf Download CJ Contract Dean The New Salvation.pdf
I’ll Still Be Here Long After You’re Gone, Cowboy Jamboree Press, December 2019
http://www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/books.htmlLinks to an external site.
Work-in-Progress
The Patron Saint of Heartaches, A Novel
Robbie "Woodrow" Chism returns to Monterey, Missouri, after Vietnam, where he's drawn into the mystery of his missing mentally handicapped brother (presumed dead) and pursued by a mysterious figure from an unknown government organization. As he navigates family turmoil and unexpected connections, including with his ex-wife and the daughter he never met, the novel explores themes of redemption and resilience against the backdrop of small-town life in the early 1980s.
Anthologies
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 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64633117-blue-bobLinks to an external site.
Bull Magazine: The Pulp Issue, Short Fiction, The Darkest Shade of Twilight, Print 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Bull-Magazine-7-Pulp-Issue/dp/0692895817Links to an external site.
Deck: Writing from the MFA Program at UNC Wilmington, Poetry, Exhalation, Print 2003
Literary Publications (Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Interviews, and Reviews)
Shrikes, Short Fiction, Revolution John, Forthcoming February 2024, online https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/february-1-2024-fiction-by-daren-dean/Links to an external site.
Everybody Has a South: Grit Lit at the Louisiana Book FestivalLinks to an external site., nonfiction report, Blue Tiger Commons Database, Lincoln University of Missouri, November 2023
The Pits of the World, Short Fiction, Maryland Literary Review, December 2022, online https://www.marylandliteraryreview.com/current/the-pits-of-the-world/Links to an external site.
Interview with Daren Dean by Shawn McMichael, Flyover Fiction, April 2022, online
https://flyovercountryliterarymagazine.com/2022/04/02/an-interview-with-daren-dean/?fbclid=IwAR1Lq2WEa263LLuCO_6TiTzu9HgF5FbSZBnjFuXXZFb4x6TgKeeWjSS9EpQLinks to an external site.
Tomorrow is a Long Time, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, The Breece D’J Pancake Issue: “New Fools Are Here to Take Your Place” Issue 7:2, Spring 2022, http://www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/current-issue.htmlLinks to an external site.
The Dying Breed, Short Fiction, Flyover Country, July 1, 2021, https://flyovercountryliterarymagazine.com/2021/07/01/the-dying-breed/Links to an external site.
Driving Dark in the Marlboro Night, Fiction, Fiction Southeast, May 2020, https://fictionsoutheast.com/driving-dark-in-the-marlboro-night-2/Links to an external site.
The Ears of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Fiction, Louisiana Literature, LL's First Special Online Feature, April 2020, http://www.louisianaliterature.org/the-ears-of-lyndon-baines-johnson/Links to an external site. and published in the print edition.
The G. I. Joe Christmas, Fiction, Bull (Men’s Fiction), February 17, 2020, http://bullmensfiction.com/fiction/the-g-i-joe-christmas/Links to an external site.
I’m Allowing for More Contradictions, interview by Evelyn Somers, Associate Editor, Missouri Review, Bloom, December 31, 2019, https://bloom-site.com/2019/12/31/im-allowing-for-more-contradictions-qa-with-daren-dean/Links to an external site.
Memorial Gardens, Poem, Delta Poetry Review, Volume Issue 2, Fall 2019 http://deltapoetryreview.com/v1i2-daren_dean.htmlLinks to an external site.
Sighing Prayer, Poem, Delta Poetry Review, Volume 1 Issue 2, Fall 2019 http://deltapoetryreview.com/v1i2-daren_dean.htmlLinks to an external site.
Captain Marvel Goes Down in Gigolo Hall of Fame, Fiction, Maryland Literary Review, December 2018 https://www.marylandliteraryreview.com/fiction/captain-marvel-goes-down-in-gigolo-hall-of-fame/Links to an external site.
I’ll Still be Here Long After You’re Gone, Fiction, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, Sept. 2018 http://www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/current-issue.htmlLinks to an external site.
Faith Baby, fiction, Red Dirt Forum (journal), Issue 2 Fall 2018, print
https://www.reddirtpress.net/red-dirt-forumLinks to an external site.
What's Your Philosophy? Star Trek Leadership Philosophy 101, nonfiction, CRIXEO, September 2018, online
The Darkest Shade of Twilight, fiction, BULL, online (2015) and print versions (2017)
http://bullmensfiction.com/fiction/the-darkest-shade-of-twilight/Links to an external site.
The Night Swimmer, fiction, StorySouth, September 2016, http://storysouth.com/stories/the-night-swimmer/Links to an external site.
Far Beyond the Pale in 1970’s Missouri: A Tiny Interview with Daren Dean by Daniel Pena, Ploughshares (2015)
http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/far-beyond-the-pale-in-1970s-missouri-a-tiny-interview-with-daren-dean/Links to an external site.
Novel excerpt from Far Beyond the Pale, TNB (The Nervous Breakdown), September 2015
Interview by TNB (J. Ryan Stradal), September 2015, online
The Four Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer, nonfiction, Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour online, August 2015 (*Authors Bill Roorbach and David Gessner), online
The Heavenly Language, fiction, Fiction Southeast, December 2014 http://fictionsoutheast.org/the-heavenly-language/Links to an external site.
Why I Write, nonfiction, Fiction Southeast, December 2014
http://fictionsoutheast.org/why-i-write-daren-dean/Links to an external site.
Bad Company, fiction, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Summer 2014 (Excerpt from a novel-in-progress called The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War) http://ghll.truman.edu/ghll25/GHLL%20XXV%20fiction/Dean%20Bad%20Company.htmlLinks to an external site.
The Misread Classic: Action Versus Meaning in The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnLinks to an external site., nonfiction, Missouri Life, August 9, 2013, online
Signs of Terror, fiction, Aries Journal of Art and Literature, Spring 2013, print and online
https://issuu.com/allisonparker8/docs/aries2013Links to an external site.
Twinkling, Fiction Southeast, Fall 2012
http://fictionsoutheast.com/home/?page_id=1850#moreLinks to an external site.
The Mail Order Jesus, fiction, Midwestern Gothic, Summer 2012, print
http://midwestgothic.com/2011/01/issue-6-summer-2012/Links to an external site.
Interview with Gladys Swan, Ecotone, Summer 2012, online,
ecotonemagazine.org/interview/the-ecotone-interview-with-gladys-swan/Links to an external site.
Fever, fiction, The Oklahoma Review, Spring 2012, online (electronic) PDF
Affliction, fiction, Glimmer Train, Finalist in February 2012 short story contest
https://www.glimmertrain.com/pages/finalists/2012_02_feb_ssnw_25.phpLinks to an external site.
Furious, Fiction Southeast, Fall 2011 (Issue includes Robert Olen Butler, Donald Ray Pollock, Joyce Carol Oates, Ron Carlson, others) http://fictionsoutheast.com/home/Links to an external site.
The Dead Flowers, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, 2009, print
Interview excerpt with Clyde Edgerton excerpt on Little, Brown's website (now part of Hachette Publishing Group) and in the Reader's Guide for the paperback of The Bible Salesman, 2008
*Interview was originall published in Image Magazine: https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-clyde-edgerton/Links to an external site.
New Testament Liquor Store, Poetry Southeast, Spring 2007 Issue, online
http://storysouth.com/authors/#dLinks to an external site.
Resting Over Flat Branch Creek, poetry, StorySouth, Winter 2006, online
http://storysouth.com/stories/resting-over-flat-branch-creek/Links to an external site.
Interview with novelist Clyde Edgerton, Image, Summer 2006, online
https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-clyde-edgerton/Links to an external site.
Idlewilde, Poetry Southeast, Summer 2006, online (magazine defunct)
Exhalation (poem) Deck: Writing from the MFA Program UNC Wilmington-2003, print
Interview with Pulitzer finalist and award winning poet, James Kimbrell, Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXI, Number 2, Winter 2001, print
https://the-hooch.com/Links to an external site.
Interview with poet Claudia Keelan, Inscape, Winter 2001, print
Festival of the Great Rebellion, fiction, Ardentia (University of Missouri-Columbia), Number 5, Fall 1998, print
No Sanctuary, fiction, Stir Magazine, University of Missouri, Spring 1998, print
Public Readings and Panels
Reading at Osher Friday Morning Book Talks, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia, contact Marlene Lee, 2025 TBD
https://extension.missouri.edu/programs/osher-lifelong-learning-instituteLinks to an external site.
Reading at AWP Conference with Tailwind Press/Cowboy Jamboree Press Writers, Location: The Farewell, Kansas City, MO, 7-9:30pm, February 8th, 2024
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https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5622AQHFBvyByal99g/feedshare-shrink_800/0/1706152961596?e=1720656000&v=beta&t=vm_RAl8oudsecud7M7N8-MBmYUFo0K18k_ORNUD5q2ILinks to an external site.
Serendipity Gallery Reading Series, with University of Missouri poet Aliki Barnstone (former Poet Laureate of Missouri), curated by Andrew Mulvania, Columbia, MO, Thursday, January 18, 2024
Reading at Serendipity with Aliki Barnstone.jpeg
https://allevents.in/columbia/serendipity-salon-and-gallery-reading-series-january-reading/200026031284928Links to an external site.
Reading at Serendipity with Aliki Barnstone.pdfDownload Reading at Serendipity with Aliki Barnstone.pdf
Writing Craft Discussion, with speculative novelist Mark Tiedemann, Moderated by Librarian Madeleine Matson, Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, MO, Thursday, November 30, 2023
https://www.mrrl.org/media/3242Links to an external site.
Missouri Folklore Society, Fraud, Tragedy, and War: Three Missouri Novelists Talk About Writing Historical Fiction, Panel Discussion with historical novelists Michelle Collins Anderson (author of The Flower Sisters) and Jocelyn Cullity (author of Amah and the Silk-winged Pigeons), and Daren Dean (The Black Harvest) Boonville, MO, November 4, 2023
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https://www.kjluradio.com/newsroom/lu-professor-to-join-panel-on-historical-fiction-presented-by-missouri-folklore-society/article_044ef606-7a50-11ee-8d75-c3de0bcdf4d5.htmlLinks to an external site.
Radio Interview, Panel discussion, Three Missouri Novelists Talk About Writing Historical Fiction, Missouri Folklore Society, with Gloria Enlow, KJLU 88.9 FM, November 2, 2023
Everybody Has a South: Grit Lit, Panel Discussion, with Kent Wascom, Eli Cranor, Frank Bill and Megan Lucas, Louisiana Book Festival, Capitol Park Museum Auditorium, Baton Rouge, LA October 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjnVtAgTZQLinks to an external site.
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ROADS reading Central Methodist University, Fayette, MO, September 28, Fall 2023
https://news.centralmethodist.edu/2023/10/daren-dean-speaker.htmlLinks to an external site.
Creative Writing Workshop, Creative Writing Students, Central Methodist University, Fayette, MO, September 28, Fall 2023
https://news.centralmethodist.edu/2023/10/daren-dean-speaker.htmlLinks to an external site.
Reading from Roads, Barb’s Books, Osage Arts Community, Belle, MO, June 17, 2023 4pm-6pm
Immersive Reading, Creative Writing Student Reading, Lincoln University Students, English 271/375/475, Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, Missouri, Monday, April 24, 2023, 6:30 pm –8pm
https://www.lincolnu.edu/news/2023/05/immersive-reading-experience.htmlLinks to an external site.
Introduced James Davis May (and Chelsea Rathburn) for the Spring Annual Reading Series, SUC Ballroom, Lincoln University, 6:30pm, April 13, 2023
Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions Reading Series, ROADS, A Novel, Orr Street Studios, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 https://www.orrstreetstudios.com/events/hearing-voicesseeing-visionsLinks to an external site.
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) (National Writing Conference. Note: This is the largest national conference in America for Writers and Writing Programs:
Panel Reading, Shadow Writers Transgressions, Transformations: the intersection of change and hurt, we find our characters, our verses, and ourselves, with memoirist Eli Hastings, and Bull magazine, Fiction Editor, Ben Drevlow, EJ Levy, Katerina Canyon, and Sharon Nyree Williams. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Daren Dean (Chair). Shaun McMichael (Co-Chair) Seattle Public Library, Main Branch, Seattle WA, Thursday, March 9th, 2023. https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview_offsite/2023_SEATTLELinks to an external site.
AWP 2023 Reading 3.23.pdfDownload AWP 2023 Reading 3.23.pdf
Reading, This Vale of Tears (with poet Dr. Andrew Mulvania) Barb’s Books, Osage Arts Community, Belle, MO, August 20th, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNlaN3YjnkLinks to an external site.
Reading, This Vale of Tears, Presser Arts Center, Mexico, MO, Noon-2pm, June 5th, 2022
https://www.presserpac.com/blog-presser/2022/5/13/dean-dean-mexico-native-author?fbclid=IwAR2mzlkvVE61OPt-zo9uxHnJ5SIsL-qsZ1aQxTvrB2ivN1X1M-mNj-D1TPQLinks to an external site.
Meet the Author, This Vale of Tears, Boone County History & Culture Center, Columbia, MO Saturday, May 21st, 2022 https://boonehistory.org/events/darren-dean-this-vale-of-tears/Links to an external site. (Director, Chris Campbell)
Lunch and Learn, author presentation, The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War, Advantage Travel Club, Legends Bank, Linn, MO May 18, 2022 11am-Noon. (Director: Mary Ann Gelven) https://www.legendsbk.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/LL-Description.pdfLinks to an external site.
“For the Love of Locals” Virtual Gallery,” This Vale of Tears, Montminy Gallery, Boone County History & Culture Center, Columbia, MO April 30th, 2-4pm, 2022
https://boonehistory.org/events/for-the-love-of-locals/Links to an external site.
Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions Reading Series, This Vale of Tears, Orr Street Studios, Monday, April 19th, 2022 https://www.orrstreetstudios.com/events/hearing-voicesseeing-visionsLinks to an external site.
Reading/Reception in Honor of the Publication of The Black Harvest and This Vale of Tears in 2021, Sponsored by the English Department, Lincoln University of Missouri, Memorial Hall, March 24th, 2022, 6:30pm-8pm.
Local Author Showcase, The Black Harvest and This Vale of Tears, Missouri River Regional Library, Art Gallery, Jefferson City, MO, December 5, 2021.
Book Launch, This Vale of Tears by Daren Dean and A Good Ram is Hard to Find by Benjamin Drevlow, Hosted by Adam Van Winkle, Via Zoom, November 4th, 2021
Novel Panel, The Black Harvest, Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA, October 30, 2021—Cancelled due to COVID/Delta.
Author talk, The Black Harvest, at Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, MO, October 14, 2021, 7pm-9pm, hybrid event, https://www.mrrl.org/event/author-talk-daren-deanLinks to an external site.
Meet the Author, The Black Harvest, Boone County History & Culture Center, Columbia, MO, September 11, 2021, 10am-11am, in-person event, https://boonehistory.org/events/daren-dean-the-black-harvest-a-novel-of-the-american-civil-war/Links to an external site.
Lincoln University professor to share novel with Boone County history lovers by Gloria Enloe, KJLU, September 9, 2021
http://www.kjluradio.com/newsroom/lincoln-university-professor-to-share-novel-with-boone-county-history-lovers/article_42f147a0-1194-11ec-bbdf-77411c301784.htmlLinks to an external site.
Author talk, Research, The Black Harvest, “Violence of the Civil War period versus "Gorenography," or the Meaning of Depicting Violence in Realistic Fiction” Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia, MO, August 12, 2021, 7pm-8pm via Zoom, https://events.dbrl.org/event/5362307Links to an external site. and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMRLZXVEjQULinks to an external site.
Civil War novel first step in a big year for mid-Missouri author Daren Dean by Aarik DanielsenLinks to an external site., Columbia Daily Tribune, July 25, 2021 https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/entertainment/2021/07/25/civil-war-novel-first-step-big-year-author-daren-dean/8041312002/Links to an external site.
More Great Reads, The Black Harvest by Daren Dean, Missouri Life Magazine, July 1, 2021: https://missourilife.com/biography-of-a-nation/Links to an external site.
Author Talk, The Black Harvest, Fulton Rotary Club, Fulton, MO, June 9th, 2021, https://www.fultonsun.com/news/local/story/2021/jun/13/black-harvest-daren-dean-be-released-next-month/874750/Links to an external site.
Author Presentation, Charlotte Writer's Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 16, 2020, 6:30 p.m., Writing from the Unconscious,
Via Zoom, https://charlottewritersclub.org/calendar_of_eventsLinks to an external site.
Reading, Orr Street Studio’s “Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions” reading from new short story collection “I’ll Still be Here Long After You’re Gone” on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, https://www.orrstreetstudios.com/events/hearing-voices-seeing-visions-amy-huichun-liang-amp-daren-deanLinks to an external site.
I’ll Still Be Here Long After You’re Gone: Stories, reviewed in the Columbia Tribune, December 2019
https://www.columbiatribune.com/entertainmentlife/20191220/deans-latest-is-good-as-gone?fbclid=IwAR3GT5M8FvwIvR-h1L2cYn42duxg7FIMYk6uRVmVKb036K0VUVNK43MJ4wMLinks to an external site.
Advanced Creative Writing Student Reading, Lincoln University Students, English 375/475, Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8 PM | Campus Coworking Space, 619A E Capitol Ave, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Introducing one of the visiting writers (Claire McQuerry or Keith Lesmeister) for the Sigma Tau Delta Annual Induction and Reading 6:30pm, April 25, 2019
Reading with Poet Laureate of Missouri, Walter Bargen, at William Woods University
in Cox Gallery in the Kemper Building, Fulton, MO March 19, 2019, 4 PM - 5 PM
Reading with poet Eli Burell, Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8 PM
Campus Coworking Space, 619A E Capitol Ave, Jefferson City, Missouri
Read from “Faith Baby”/Red Dirt Forum
Dark Debut Feels Familiar by Aarik Danielsen, Far Beyond the Pale, Reviewed in Columbia Tribune, January 2016 https://www.columbiatribune.com/article/20160110/Entertainment/301109928Links to an external site.
Far Beyond the Pale, reading and book discussion, Louisiana Book Festival, October 29, 2016
Moderator, panel on Southern Comic Writing, David Armand and Dixon Hearne, Louisiana Book Festival, October 2015
Far Beyond the Pale, Book release reading with Randolph Thomas, Baton Rouge Gallery, October 18, 2015
Book and Fiction Talk, Bowers Writers House, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, September 2015
https://www.etown.edu/centers/writershouse/Links to an external site.
Far Beyond the Pale, Reviewed on HuffPost by Steven Petite, August 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-petite/daren-dean-and-fiction-so_b_7960714.htmlLinks to an external site.
Presentation with Chris Tusa, Resumes and Internships, Ourso Business College, LSU, February 2014
Reading at The Rusty Nail, New Orleans, with memoirists Eli Hastings, Margaux Fragoso and fiction writers: Chris Tusa and Daren Dean, May 2013
Video Conference Presentation
The “What if?” Conference, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, Video Presentation “What if the Act of Creative Writing Leads to Higher States of Consciousness?” by Daren Dean, November 2012