DAN KEANE

SELECTED WRITING

I lost my kid in New Plymouth. The Wind Wand showed him the way home.
The Spinoff

How to Argue a Bird
Newsroom

Lights at a Hut are Like Togs in a Sauna

The Spinoff

Land of the Square Blue Tub
North & South

A Poet’s Account of the Collapse
of Uyghur Society

Washington Post

We Were Guaranteed a Haka
Bad Dads With a Gun
The Least American Place
It’s Not an Airbnb, It’s a Bach
Expat Life is a Hell of a Drug
american.nz

Showing a Little Leg
Harper’s


CAMPAIGNS

Kieran McAnulty MP
Capping Fares at $20 a Week
A Great Day in Ashhurst
Fighting to Save Our School Nurses

Wairarapa Grains Collective
Brand re-launch coming Winter 2026

Wairarapa Library Service
WLS Evening Book Club
How to Tell a Story
/ Part 2
Blackout Poems
Ride Easy, Stranger
What am I doing here with 3000 sheep?


WORKSHOPS & TEACHING

Mrs. Blackwell’s Village Bookshop
How to Write a Journey, July 25
Write Your Welly Life, Aug 9
Southern Cross, Aug 9
Victoria University of Wellington
Global Migrations, University of Otago
 University of Michigan
NYU Shanghai
NYU Abu Dhabi
Wairarapa Word
with Chris TseFeatherston Booktown
with Joy CowleyNew Zealand Book Awards
with Selina Tusitala Marsh

MORE WRITING & ETC.

ISLE
ChinaFile
ArtForum
McSweeney’s
The Village Voice
Zoetrope: All-Story
The Associated Press
The Austin Chronicle
The Big Bend Sentinel
Fiction Writers Review
The Presidio International
The Best American Nonrequired Reading



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