Daniel DiFranco
  • Home
  • Novels
    • Devil On My Trail
    • Panic Years
    • Panic Years Press Release
  • Publications, Press, & Misc.
  • Press Kit
  • Events
  • Contact

Publications  

NovelS

Devil On My Trail
Panic Years
Forthcoming: December 10, 2024, Unsolicited Press
​August 15, 2018, Tailwinds Press

Stories / Poems / Essays

"Undertow"
"Only a Fool Would Talk of Birds at a Time Like This"
​"The Heart is a Black Box"
​"Billy Joel’s 1989 Hit Song and The Possibility of Beauty​"
"A Season for Moths"
"Going Clear"
"Somewhere A Well"
"Panic Years Research Notes" - essay
"Lost in the Cities, Alone in the Hills"
​"Fight Club Except it's Your Hometown..." **
"Canned Laughter"
"Homunculus" - poem
​"Like a Creature with Two Hearts" - poem/vignette
​"The Universe Hums in B Flat"
"When You Find Yourself..." audio w/music
"When You Find Yourself at the Center of the Earth"
​"Theophany"
"The Moon is a Wasteland" *
"When Heavy Things Touch Ground"
"The Agony of Bells"
"Spotting The Fatman" 
"Songs of The Dead: An Homage" 
"After The Deluge"     
"For Neither Can We Carry"
  
*nominated for a Pushcart Prize
** nominated for Best of the Net

Bending Genres | October 8, 2024
King Ludd's Rag
 | November 2023
​Sortes Spectral Winter Annual | Fall 2023
Fractured Lit | July 6, 2023
​Breadcrumbs | August 28, 2020
Sortes ​| April 2020
JMWW  | April 10, 2019
​Necessary Fiction  | September 21, 2018
Monkeybicycle  | April 20, 2018
Drunk Monkeys  | April 2, 2018
50-Word Stories ​ | April 4, 2017
Hoot  | ​​January 2017
Storyscape Literary Journal  | December 17, 2016, Issue 17
Gone Lawn  | May 15, 2016
Rocky Mountain Revival  | October 21, 2016
Hypertrophic Lit  | December 2015​
​LitroNY  
| September 25, 2015
Smokelong Quarterly  | July 27, 2015, Fall 2015 Quarterly
Apocrypha and Abstractions  | October 22, 2015
Helen  | Spring 2015, Music Issue
The Molotov Cocktail  | December 2014, Vol. 5, Issue 18
Wyvern Lit  | Summer 2014
Philadelphia Stories  | Winter 2014
Crack The Spine  | July 2013 online / Fall 2013 Print

Miscellaneous

Reviews​

 Drunken Book Review Podcast — Panic Years--Episode 70, July 22, 2019
 Cleaver Magazine Book Review — Panic Years Review by Allegra Armstrong
 Independent Book Review — Panic Years Review by Joe Walters
 Foreword Reviews  -- Panic Years Review by Claire Foster, Editor's Pick
​ American Microreviews & Interviews — Panic Years Review by Britny Brooks

Interviews

   Guest on The BobCast. January 18, 2019.
   Interview in Grid/Jump Magazine Philly — Interview by Eric Fitzimmons, October 2018
   Guest on Book Fight Podcast. August 13, 2018.
   For Smokelong Quarterly. Interviewee, Bud Smith, March 2017.
   By Smokelong Quarterly for guest editor spot January 2017. Interview by Tara Laskowski.
   By Smokelong Quarterly. Interview by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Accolades

   Finalist in Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Competition Fall 2019
   Shortlist in Thirty West Publishing House's 3rd Chapbook Contest 2019
   Semi-Finalist in Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Competition Spring 2017
   Wigleaf Top 50 2016 Longlist
   Finalist in Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Competition Fall 2015
   2015 Pushcart Nomination from Smokelong Quarterly for "The Moon is a Wasteland"
   Top Five Most Read Stories on Smokelong Quarterly 2015
   Fiction Pick of the Week at Longform August, 2014: "Songs of the Dead: An Homage" 

Geekadelphia

   Full list of bylines can be found here.

Minotaur's Spotlight

"Rock and Roll, Creating Art, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ghost"
 "Are Writers Just A Bunch Of Liars?"