Sean Madden
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Anthologies
  • How the Lonesome Engine Drivers Pine​, Carefully Peeled Edges: The Luminaire Award Anthology, Volume 2, forthcoming 2023
​​Stories
  • 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)
  • 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)​​
Essays
  • 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, Fourth Annual
    JUR Emerging Writers Prize)​​​
​Poems
  • A Revised Answer for Mr. Rowan, Two Thirds North, forthcoming 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
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