New Story at American Literary Review

Thank you to Colleen Mayo and the rest of the staff at the ALR for featuring Gloom of Night, which is about a mail carrier who starts dealing weed. Click below to read!

Big news!

I am thrilled to announce that I am now represented by Wendy Levinson at the Harvey Klinger Agency! Also, thank you to the editors at American Literary Review for accepting my short story “Gloom of Night,” which will appear this fall. Stay tuned!

“The Stuffed Parakeet” in Crazyhorse 99

Thank you very much to the fine people at Crazyhorse for publishing my story “The Stuffed Parakeet.” It’s full of all kinds of Pacific-Northwesty teenage angst. Buy the issue below, especially because it features Kwame Dawes and Allegra Hyde.

“Low-Voltage Hope” in Orison Anthology

Much gratitude to Luke Hankins and the rest of the team at Orison for including my essay. Be sure to check out Blair Hurley’s stellar short story, too!

Cool thing in Supermaker!

Thanks to Terri Simon over at Supermaker for including my piece “Jesus and Blueberry Cobbler” in her list of November ‘19 must-reads.

February 2019- blog post at North American Review

Winter 2019- Buyers Are Liars in North American Review

May 2018- One Hundred Thousand Welcomes in Barrelhouse

March 2018- Extreme Unction published in Dappled Things

February 2018- Bad Teeth in the Chicago Quarterly Review

January 2018- Low Voltage Hope just published in Sport Literate

Look out for pieces in Barrelhouse, Sport Literate and the Chicago Quarterly Review in January/February/March 2018

November 2017- Excited to have a story in the Minnesota Review

March 17, 2017- Radio debut

Listen to Sean read "I Don't Drink Diet Pepsi" on WFSU:

 January 6, 2017- New year, new publication

Near Nature, Near Perfect by Sean Towey featured in Hobart

Looking ahead...

Stay tuned for an upcoming publication in the minnesota review in fall 2017.

Winner of 2016 FSU Creative Writing Emerging Writers' Spotlight Award

After reviewing his piece, Jesus and Blueberry Cobbler, multiple National Book Award finalist Debra Monroe said, "I admired many of these essays, but found that Jesus and Blueberry Cobbler was most compelling because it not only depicts a stark turning point, it also made the unfamiliar seem familiar and the imperfectly numinous seem perfect and inviting."