Shawn Andrew Mitchell

Shawn Andrew Mitchell’s stories, essays, reviews, and interviews have been published in Poets & Writers, Fairy Tale Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, BULL, and elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies Hair Lit Volume One and Torpedo’s Greatest Hits. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and currently lives in Parsons, Kansas.

Fiction

short stories

“Mr. Hundred Hands”
     ^{Chicago Quarterly Review (Spring.2025)}
“Ten Years Later, the Nation Remembers the Day the President’s Penis Died”
     ^{BULL (02.2022)}
“The Hillbilly in My Pocket”
     ^{Fairy Tale Review (Yellow Issue, 2012)}
“The Bigger the Balls”
     ^{Hair Lit, Vol. 1 (Orange Alert Press, 2012)}
“It’s Not the Heat So Much as the Jelly”
     ^{Torpedo Volume 4: Brautigan (01.2009); Torpedo Greatest Hits; The Reprint}

flash fiction

“The Cage”
     ^{The Enneadecameron (04.2020)}
“She Was Beautiful, Yes”
     ^{The Montreal Review (04.2011)}
“Imitation Feast”
     ^{Prime Mincer #1 (03.2011)}
“Me and Medusa”
     ^{NANO Fiction 4.1 (11.2010)}
“Other People’s Houses”
     ^{Crafty Magazine #3: Around the Campfire (09.2009)}

Nonfiction

Interviews

“The Subtraction of Weight: An Interview with Seth Fried”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (06.24.2019)}
“A Good Work Is a Moment of Clear Thought: An Interview with Jesse Bell”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (03.06.2014)}
“Fashionable Nonsense and a Better Brain: Part One of an Interview with Charles Yu”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.05.2013)}
“Time as a Malleable Material: Part Two of a Conversation with Charles Yu”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.12.2013)}
“Save that Blood!: An Interview with Jim Shepard”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (03.07.2012)}
“Writing Whatever You Want Whenever You Want to Write It: A Conversation with Elif Batuman and Geoff Dyer”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (09.13.2011)}
“Some Supernatural Source of Primal Energy: An Interview with Benjamin Percy”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (09.28.2010); Glimmer Train Writers Ask}

Reviews

“Review of Mark Mayer's Aerialists”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.03.2019)}
“Review of Alice Mattison's The Kite and The String”
     ^{The Rumpus (08.16.2016)}
“Review of Benjamin Percy’s The Dead Lands”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (04.30.2015)}
“Review of William Todd Seabrook's The Imagination of Lewis Carroll”
     ^{The Rumpus (03.24.2015)}
“Review of Kevin Barry's Dark Lies the Island”
     ^{The Rumpus (12.14.2013)}
“Review of Nicholson Baker's Traveling Sprinkler”
     ^{The Rumpus (11.25.2013)}
“Review of Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (07.11.2013)}
“Review of Peter Stamm's We’re Flying”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (09.2012)}
“Review of Kevin Moffett's Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.21.2012)}
“Review of Pinckney Benedict's Miracle Boy”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (09.26.2011)}

Appreciations

“Stories We Love: ‘The Bees,’ by Dan Chaon”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.23.22)}
“Stories We Love: ‘The Great Silence’ by Ted Chiang”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (12.19.2019)}
“Stories We Love: American Masculine by Shann Ray”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.15.2012)}
“Ode to the Bromance”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.08.2012)}
“Stories We Love: The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.24.2011)}

Essays & Articles

“A Relationship is Not an Economy: On Gifts of Love, Meaning, and Craft in Aimee Bender’s ‘The Red Ribbon’”
     ^{Fiction Writers Review (05.06.2020)}
“Geoff Dyer's Zona: A Post about a Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room”
     ^{Fiction Advocate (09.2012) (available in EPUB and MOBI formats)}
“The Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway, Ireland”
     ^{Poets & Writers (03/04.2012)}

art

“Trace,” an art installation at InLight Richmond 2011, co-concept with Riley Harmon
     ^{InLight 2011 Best in Show (10.2011)}