Brandon McNeice is a Philadelphia-based writer and educator. His fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Commonweal, Plough, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Terrain.org, and Hunger Mountain. His work has been longlisted for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest and the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, and twice nominated for Best Small Fictions. His debut essay collection, The Grief and the Gathering, is forthcoming from Party Wall Press this fall.
Books
Selected work
Hearken! And Observe How Healthily I Can Tell You the Whole Story
Soon
Well-Schooled
Ablation
Soon
Terrain.org
Out at Home
inScribe, 2026
One of Us
The Philadelphia Citizen, 2026
Invocation
The Headlight Review, 2026
So I Played it Again
Front Porch Republic, 2026
It Was Marvelous: Lucia Berlin’s “My Jockey”
SmokeLong Quarterly, 2026
The Crook of the City's Elbow
The Astorian, 2026
Reserve
Los Angeles Review, 2026
Bottle Return
NUNUM, 2026
Owl
Soon
Cleaver Magazine
Flash, Back: The Story Inside the Gate
SmokeLong Quarterly, 2026
The Difficulty of Simplicity
LETTERS Journal, 2026
Chain of Custody
Does It Have Pockets, 2026
The Angel on 52nd Street
Soon
Terrain.org
Open Letter to an ICE Recruit
Wayfarer Magazine, 2026
Still on the Bus
BULL lit mag, 2026
Fridge Worthy
Sky Island Journal, 2026
After Hours
Sky Island Journal, 2026
Haunted by Waters
Front Porch Republic, 2026
A Snake in the Garden
Fare Forward, 2026
Review: Patricia Q. Bidar’s Pardon Me for Moonwalking
SmokeLong Quarterly, 2026
What Happens When Philly Schools Close
The Philadelphia Citizen, 2026
Detention Seeds
Your Impossible Voice, 2026
The Final Trolley
Bending Genres, 2026
Love
The Muleskinner Journal, 2025
The Water Line
Soon
Flyway Journal
Slack
SmokeLong Quarterly, 2025
Fire Escape Tomatoes
Hunger Mountain, 2026
Hydrant Fish
Flash Frog, 2025
We Count Bottles
ONE ART: a journal of poetry, 2025
Borrowed Light
Stone Poetry Quarterly, 2025
The Last Bogatyr of Kladno
The Under Review, 2026
Their Land Brought Forth Frogs in Abundance
Front Porch Republic, 2026
Puddled Sky
Free Flash Fiction, 2026
Lake Effect
Well-Schooled, 2025
Bread Starter
Eunoia Review, 2025
Many Voices, One Room
Fare Forward, 2026
Everything Was Once a Place
Front Porch Republic, 2025
Your Father's Silence
Unleash Lit, 2026
Balance, not Blanket Bans
Klingbrief, 2025
Returned
100 Word Story, 2026
Lockdown
50-Word Stories, 2025
Growing Heavy for the Vintage
Commonweal, 2025
Unrendered Grace
NUNUM, 2025
Re-Enchanting the Game
Sport Literate, 2026
The Commons in a Cardboard Box
Front Porch Republic, 2025
Ladder Hours
The Rush Magazine, 2025
First to Go
Beyond Words Literary Magazine, 2026
In Defense of Children's Work
Front Porch Republic, 2025
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Down There By The Train
Plough Quarterly [Plough Books], 2025
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Front Porch Republic, 2025
Guest Commentary: Want Better Schools?
The Philadelphia Citizen, 2025
The School Principal’s Prayer
Plough Quarterly [Plough Books], 2025
To Harness These Tools
Klingbrief, 2025
Not a Break — A Becoming
Well-Schooled, 2025
What the Secular School Has Rediscovered
Christian Scholar's Review, 2025
A Dress Code for Democracy
Front Porch Republic, 2025
