Published "Notes" from the Field of Foreclosure
The following essays detail my experiences emptying and cleaning foreclosed homes through the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of the Great Recession and are representative of the thematic concerns relevant to my memoir-in-progress, What Remains: Notes from the Field of Foreclosure. "Preserve and Protect" (2016) and "for(e)closure" (2011), in particular, contain fragments of the memoir at large.
"for(e)closure"Winner of Creative Nonfiction's 2011 MFA Program-Off, Pushcart Prize nominated, and "Notable" essay in Best American Essays
Creative Nonfiction (Issu #42, Summer 2011) |
"Foreclosure Aftermath: What We Leave Behind"YES! Magazine
(June, 2012) |
"Between Foreclosures"Dogwood:
A Journal of Prose and Poetry (Volume 12:2013) |
Other Publications & Articles by and/or about S.J. Dunning
- "Wu Wei," Pif Magazine, 2010
- "Winning Essay Inspired by Work with Foreclosed Homes," Ellensburg Daily Record, May 21, 2011
- "Of Closure and Foreclosure," University of Idaho Website, January 31, 2011
- "I Want," Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment,Volume 13, Issue 2, 2011
- "Smoker's Dream," Sleet, 2011
- "How We Are Born," Torches 'n Pitchforks (Teacher Edition), 2015
- Three Poems, Front Porch, Issue 30, 2015
- "Let's Put on Kathy Kelly With Music," The Boiler, Fall Issue: XVII, 2015
- "Dear Stranger," American Athenaueum, forthcoming (TBA)
- "Listen," San Pedro River Review, Volume 8 No. 1, Spring 2016
- "Ode to Barbie Now," Sundog Lit, Issue 10, Spring 2016
- "Queen of The Narrows," Suisun Valley Review, Issue #33, Spring 2016
- "If I Have to Choose," The Offbeat, Volume 16, Summer 2016
- "My Mother's DJ: A VHS Home Movie," The Swamp Literary Magazine, Issue #1, July 2016
- "Coffee Table Book Idea #1: Foreclosure's Mattresses," FORTHCOMING, The Meadow
- "Buying Ink at Walgreens," The Meadow
5x5 Literary Magazine
S.J. Dunning is the Co-Editor in Chief, Nonfiction Editor, and Issue Designer of 5x5 Literary Magazine, which publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of 500 words or less. For more information about the magazine and/or to read the issues displayed below, please click here.