DAN KEANE


SELECTED REELS

Candy From Strangers

Road Cone Auntie
Free MRI

Foreign Trees
No Escape
Kiwi Therapist


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
We Stood Alongside Them
A Royal Piddle
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

The NZ Stationary Festival
Travel Journalling with Dan Keane, 9 Jan 2027
Write Your Welly Life, Aug 9
Southern Cross, Aug 9
Mrs. Blackwell’s Village Bookshop
How to Write a Journey, July 2026Write Your Life, Feb-March 2026
Writing to Reveal, January 2026

Wairarapa Word
with Chris TseFeatherston Booktown
with Joy CowleyNew Zealand Book Awards
with Selina Tusitala Marsh

Victoria University of Wellington
Global Migrations, University of Otago
 University of Michigan
NYU Shanghai
NYU Abu Dhabi


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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