David Galef writes in 17 different directions. His day-job is professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University.
Joined February 2014
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Jun 16
See the link below for some poetry of mine in the latest Light and, can't resist, some of Daniel's in the same issue.
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May 2
Two more weeks till Vestal Review's spring submission window closes! We’d love to see what you’ve written, at least through May 15th, after which we shutter till August 1st. Spring issue out this June.
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Apr 18
Which passage? The Old Testament has some pretty aggressive material.
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Feb 5
My latest (quite short), in the new issue of Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/feb…
I assume you've suffered this, too, right?
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9 Dec 2025
Vestal Review 67 has just hit the stands, so to speak: vestalreview.net/ 18 flash fiction stories and a book review. Recommendations for specific stories, based on your astrological sign and whatever else we know about you, upon request.
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6 Dec 2025
My latest novel, Where I Went Wrong, just got shortlisted for the Somerset Book Awards and snared a spot in Shelf Unbound Top 100 Best of the Indie Presses.
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21 Nov 2025
Been a lot of talk recently about "restructuring" the humanities. FYAmusement: insidehighered.com/opinion/v…
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17 Nov 2025
Hooray our amazing micro writers!
16 Nov 2025
We're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025! Please join us in congratulating these stellar writers. Good luck everyone!
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3 Nov 2025
For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet).
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4 Nov 2025
We are so excited to celebrate the release today of Susan Coventry's TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN, "A true-to-life love story that illuminates an intriguing woman’s life, the life of her brilliant physician husband, and the wretched secret they share." regal-house-publishing.mybig…
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3 Nov 2025
For anyone interested in the sweet, self-inflicted pain of writing a novel.
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24 Oct 2025
Pertinent passage from a tremendous book:
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15 Sep 2025
If you're in North Jersey on Saturday afternoon, September 27, and also happen to be interested in writing a novel, by all means come to the Fort Lee public library! fortleelibrary.assabetintera…
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22 Aug 2025
How is it possible that out of the wash come not two but three mismatched socks with no partners? I’ve looked all over. What are the odds?
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21 Aug 2025
Funny because the chickens always say, “No one here but us!” 🙃
21 Aug 2025
Another wholesome island encounter: we were driving down to beach (lazy, to be sure), and there was a grandmother and granddaughter walking down, and we offered them a lift. "No thank you," they said in Greek, " we're going to look at the chickens."
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16 Aug 2025
Come here and come hear David Galef read from his fourth novel, Where I Went Wrong
Saturday, August 23, 1:00-2:00
Montclair Book Center
221 Glen Ridge Avenue, Montclair, NJ
@montclairbooks
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4 Aug 2025
"My brush handles are adorned in dried-up colors: startling navy, temperate teal, muddy ochre."
Prismatic and cinematic, a layered coming of age story from @authorsudha | doesithavepockets.com/fictio…
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30 Jul 2025
Thank you very much to Robin Helweg-Larsen for featuring my poem "A Nightingale to a Sad Poet" at his blog Form in Formless Times!
Birds deserve to get a rebuttal to annoying romantics getting drunk underneath their tree:
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10 Jul 2025
Catch Patrick O'Dowd at Barnes & Noble Paramus this Saturday at 1 pm to get your signed copy of A Campus on Fire! @BNParamus stores.barnesandnoble.com/ev…
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