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  • Sean Gill's Episodic Work Nominated for Two 2025 Realscreen Awards
  • Queer Eye Nominated for GLAAD Media Award
  • Sean Gill's "The Lakes and the Falls" Honored by Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative
  • Queer Eye Season 9 Premieres on Netflix Wednesday, December 11th
  • Sean Gill Reading at Black Spring Books on 9/21/24
  • Queer Eye Nominated for Two 2024 Primetime Emmys
  • Queer Eye nominated for GLAAD Media Award
  • Queer Eye nominated for two Critics Choice Awards
  • "Selected Arcana from My Literary Tarot" in Electric Literature
  • "Dr. Bronner's or Dr. Strangelove?" in Slackjaw Magazine
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  • "The Lakes and the Falls" (Finalist, Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative)
    Short Édition/The Center for Fiction (January 2025)
  • "Selected Arcana from My Literary Tarot"
    Electric Literature (April 2024)
  • "Dr. Bronner's or Dr. Strangelove?"
    Slackjaw Magazine (February 2024)
  • "The Marked Book (Reprint, finalist for Lascaux Prize)
    Lascaux Review Prize Anthology (Volume 10, January 2024)
  • "Join Hands" (Third Place winner for the Edinburgh Prize in Flash Fiction)
    Solemates and Other Stories: An Anthology of the Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards (Vol. 5, Winter 2024)
  • "Classic Florida Literature: On the Novelization of Porky's II: The Next Day"
    The Evergreen Review (December 2023)
  • "War Drums"
    Vagabond: Bulgaria's English Magazine (Summer 2023)
  • "Gather Dust No More"
    Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 21, No. 3, Winter 2023)
  • "The Weak Knees"
    BOMB Magazine (Summer 2022)
  • "Six Authors in Search of a Character, Part 6: Yukio Mishima is... 'Lt. Shinji Takeyama'"
    ZYZZYVA (April 2022)
  • "Six Authors in Search of a Character, Part 5: Jaqueline Susann is... 'First Reporter'"
    ZYZZYVA (March 2022)
  • "Six Authors in Search of a Character, Part 4: Mickey Spillane is... 'Mike Hammer'"
    ZYZZYVA (February 2022)
  • "Six Authors in Search of a Character, Part 3: Irvine Welsh is... 'Mikey Forrester'"
    ZYZZYVA (February 2022)
  • "Six Authors in Search of a Character, Part 2: Richard Wright is... 'Bigger Thomas'"
    ZYZZYVA (January 2022)
  • "Six Authors in Search of a Character, Part 1: Stephen King is... 'Jordy Verrill'"
    ZYZZYVA (December 2021)
  • "The Film Treatment for Ingmar Bergman's Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
    McSweeney's Internet Tendency (September 2021)
  • "Datin' Satan: A Journey to Hell With Louisa May Alcott"
    Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Summer 2021)
  • "The Fixed Umbrella"
    Gargoyle Magazine (Issue 73, Winter 2021)
  • "Rumours"
    Hobart (December 2020)
  • "Table Talk: FiDi"
    The Threepenny Review (Issue 163, Fall 2020)
  • "The Forbidden Labyrinth: On The Name of the Rose as a Video Game"
    Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Summer 2020)
  • "The Buzzer Is Mightier: The Author as a Game Show Contestant"
    Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Spring 2020)
  • "Mrs. Ives at the Shooting Gallery"
    Hemingway Shorts: The Literary Journal of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation (Volume 5, May 2020)
  • "Cranberry's Last Dance" (Reprint, finalist for Lascaux Prize)
    Lascaux Review Prize Anthology (Volume 6, March 2020)
  • "Fictional Dystopias Better Than the One We're Living In"
    Booth (January 2020)
  • "Rejected Alternatives to Roy Batty's 'Tears in Rain'"
    Queen Mob's Teahouse (December 2019)
  • "Dignity and Urgency in Edinburgh and London" (Winner of the 2020 Lawrence Prize)
    Michigan Quarterly Review (Vol. 58, No. 4, Special Issue:
    What Does Europe Want Now?", Fall 2019)
  • "The Stars Look Very Different Today: On Yukio Mishima's Star"
    Barrelhouse Magazine (November 2019)
  • "16 More Auteurs Weigh In on Whether 'Marvel Is Cinema'"
    Slackjaw Magazine (November 2019)
  • "The Abyss Munches Back: On Martin Amis' Invasion of the Space Invaders"
    Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Fall 2019)
  • "Imaginos"     
    Hobart (October 2019)
  • "An Inhospitable Place"
    Fiction International (No. 52, Fall 2019)
  • "The Statement of [REDACTED], Revised" (Winner of the 2019 Gail B. Crump Prize)
    Pleiades (Volume 39.2, Summer 2019)
  • "The Naked Foundation"
    Jellyfish Review (Spring 2019)
  • "A Fine Green Thread" (Review of The Writing Irish of New York)
    The Los Angeles Review of Books (March 2019)
  • "Mrs. Dalloway and House Party: An Objective Comparison"
    The Offing (February 2019)
  • "Exodus"
    Vol. 1 Brooklyn (January 2019)
  • "The Mongrels"
    Joyland Magazine (Fall 2018)
  • "For Want of a Better Word" (Winner of the 2018 Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose)
    The Cincinnati Review (Summer 2018, Vol. 15, Issue 1)
  • "The Marked Book"
    The Iowa Review (Winter 2018, Vol. 47, Issue 3)
  • "The Computer Man" (Co-winner of the 2017 Flash Fiction Competition)
    The Fiction Desk (Vol. 12, Summer 2018, "And Nothing Remains")
  • "You Can't Superglue Your Way Out of This One"
    The Carolina Quarterly (Spring/Summer 2018, Vol. 67, Issue 2)
  • "The Globe"
    The Common (May 2018)
  • "Little Green Men"
    The Saturday Evening Post (May 2018)
  • "Are We Having Fun Yet" (Finalist in the 2018 Short Prose Contest)
    Bat City Review (Spring 2018)
  • "The Mysterious Ecstasy of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for Super Nintendo"
    Hobart (February 2018)
  • "Review of D. Foy's Absolutely Golden"
    The Brooklyn Rail (December 2017)
  • "The Movie"
    Dream City Blues: An Anthology of Dystopian Utopias (December 2017)
  • "The Free Thinker and the Automaton"
    Barrelhouse Online (October 2017, "Barrelhouse of Horrors" Issue)
  • "About-Face"
    Elm Leaves Journal (Fall 2017)
  • "The Subtle Difference"
    Monkeybicycle (Fall 2017, One Sentence Stories)
  • "Edifice and Artifice in Buda and Pest" (Winner of the 2017 Microfiction Prize)
    River Styx (Summer 2017, Issue #98)
  • "The Dead Woman's Cubicle"
    Fourteen Hills (Summer 2017, Vol. 23.2)
  • "The Bone That Cracks the Loudest"
    Crannóg Magazine (Summer 2017, Issue 45)
  • "In the Cutting Room"
    Fiction Southeast (May 2017)
  • "Shore Leave"
    Columbia Journal (April 2017)
  • "Past Lives, Now Available on Videocassette"
    Scrutiny (March 2017, also available in the June 2017 Scrutiny eBook, "Oddities")
  • "Kellyanne Conway's Ficciones"
    McSweeney's Internet Tendency (January 2017)
  • "Obsessions: Authoritarian Kitsch"
    ZYZZYVA Online (November 2016)
  • "Beyond the Terminus, Beyond" (Winner of the 2016 Sonora Review Fiction Prize)
    Sonora Review (Fall 2016, Issue 70)
  • "Forbidden Melodies from a Diminishing Octave"
    So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (November 2016, Issue No. 5)
  • "Forthcoming '80s Remakes That Haunt the Nightmares of the Alt-Right"
    McSweeney's Internet Tendency (October 2016)
  • "Have a Lappie with Linda"
    failbetter (Fall 2016)
  • "Consider the Duckling (A Poem for Lucio Fulci)"
    Sein und Werden (Fall 2016, "Giallo" issue)
  • "Danger Nut"
    Spartan (Fall 2016)
  • "Dreams of the Clockmaker"
    Cleaver Magazine (October 2016)
  • "The Heroes of Cherry, Remembered"
    REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters (Summer 2016, Vol. 39 No. 2)
  • "A Litany for Tender Mercies and Tougher Meats"
    Bryant Literary Review (Spring 2016, Vol. 17)
  • "Till the Cows Come Home"
    Pembroke Magazine (Spring 2016, No. 48)
  • "You Have Now Eaten Thirty-Four Spiders"
    Eclectica Magazine (20th Anniversary Speculative Anthology Vol. 1, Winter 2016)
  • "Hello in There"
    Word Riot (September 2015)
  • "Cranberry's Last Dance"
    Akashic Books' "Mondays Are Murder" Series (September 2015)
  • "A Temporary Shelf-Life"
    Hippocampus Magazine (September 2015)
  • "Lunchboxing"
    Old Northwest Review (Fall 2015, Vol. 2)
  • "The Quarry"
    decomP magazinE (July 2015)
  • "Pistachio Butter," "Pulse," and "Dominus Vobiscum"
    Gravel: A Literary Journal (July 2015)
  • "Winners of the Yoknapatawpha County Spelling Bee, 1929-1940."
    McSweeney's Internet Tendency (May 2015)
  • "I Turned Out Pretty Good"
    Pacifica Literary Review (April 2015)
  • "Mortimer's Sanctuary, and What He Found There"
    Spark: A Creative Anthology, a project of E&GJ Press (Winter 2015, Vol. 6)
  • "With Warm Wishes, M___"
    East Coast Literary Review (Winter 2015)
  • "The Six-Legged Solution"
    Clackamas Literary Review (Volume XVIII, 2014)
  • "Trimming Your Human"
    Blue Monday Review (Fall 2014, Issue #3)
  • "You Have Now Eaten Thirty-Four Spiders"
    Eclectica Magazine (April/May 2014, Vol. 18, No. 2)
  • "Gasping for Air"
    Bewildering Stories (March 2014, also reprinted in the 2014 First Quarterly Review)
  • "Two Poems"
    "At the Edge": The Hell's Kitchen Arts & Culture Magazine (Spring 2014)
  • "Ayn Rand Reviews 12 Classic Movies"
    tNY Press' Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature (formerly theNewerYork, now retired and archived) (February 2014)
  • "A Fondness for Children"
    The Journal of Experimental Fiction (December 2013, Anthology #50)
  • "Chivalry's Dead"
    Sein und Werden (Fall 2013, "Glamourama" issue)
  • "The King of Far Rockaway"
    Full of Crow (July 2013)
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