Sean Madden
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Interviews​
  • Contributor Spotlight: Sean Madden, Arkana, 2024​
Anthologies​
  • How the Lonesome Engine Drivers Pine​, Carefully Peeled Edges: The Luminaire Award Anthology, Volume 2,
    ​forthcoming 2026
​​Stories
  • A More Hospitable World, Chautauqua, 2025
  • To the Land of Funk, Copper Nickel, 2022
  • Dry January, The Nonconformist, 2021
  • The Growing Terror of Nothing to Think About, White Wall Review, 2020
    • Finalist, 52nd Jerry Jazz Musician Fiction Contest, 2019
  • How the Lonesome Engine Drivers Pine​, The Coil, 2019
    • Finalist, 2018 Luminaire Award, Alternating Current Press​
  • Who Sharpens the Pencils, Waccamaw, 2018
  • Isaac's Curse, Blue River Review, 2018
  • Subtraction, The Los Angeles Review, 2018
  • A Rare Occasion for Deep Cleaning, Umbrella Factory, 2017​
  • The Sister's Inheritance, Dappled Things, 2015
    • ​Finalist, Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction, 2014​​
Essays
  • The Moving Target: Writing Fiction about the Pandemic, Inscape, 2024
  • Fiction at the Sentence Level: Elements of Craft in John Updike's "The Happiest I've Been", Small Print, 2020
  • An Ecocritical Approach to​ John Updike's Underappreciated​ "Far Out" Fiction​, The John Updike Review, 2018
    • Co-recipient, JUR Emerging Writers Prize, 2017​​​
​​Poems
  • Self-Reflection in Light of Jon Agee's I Want a Dog, The National Poetry Review, 2025
  • Peanut, Mantis, 2025
  • 89A, Harpur Palate, 2025
  • Re Ascension, The MacGuffin, 2023
  • 50p, Belmont Story Review, 2023
  • Sand Crab, Arkana, 2023
  • A Revised Answer for Mr. Rowan, Two Thirds North, 2023
  • Frank Sinatra's Favorite Color, Glassworks, 2023
  • Decoy, Sierra Nevada Review, 2022
  • Note for Inspector, The Emerson Review, 2022
    • Nominee, Pushcart Prize
  • The Sardines, Jeff, Slant, 2021
  • Black Sedan, Hawaii Pacific Review, 2021
  • Palm Frond Cross, CAROUSEL, 2020
  • Ace, Sport Literate, 2020
  • The Sun Appeals to the Lady in the Moon, Jelly Bucket, 2020
  • Well-Schooled Heart, The William and Mary Review, 2020
  • Losing a Friend on Tax Day, 580 Split, 2020
  • Attendance, Roanoke Review, 2020
  • Proposition, Ponder Review, 2019
  • God, What I Wouldn't Give for a Saturday Night, The Stillwater Review, 2019
  • The Jam Session, Broad River Review, 2018
Other Doings
  • Visiting Writer, English 4: Short Story, Jesuit High School, Carmichael, California, 2022
  • Guest Judge, Arizona State Poetry Society Annual Contest, 2021
  • Senior Fiction Editor, Limestone, 2014-2016
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