David Philip Mullins, MFA
Assistant Director, Summer School in Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin
Associate Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School
English
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building
David Philip Mullins, MFA
Assistant Director, Summer School in Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin
Associate Professor
Teaching Interests
- Creative Writing (Fiction)
Department
English
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- Salt Publishing
Greetings from Below: Stories 2012 - Greetings from Below: Stories
Sarabande Books 2010
Articles
- The Value of Voice
Post Road, number 26 2013 - Ecotone
Arboretum
volume, 6, number 1 2010 - Folio
Crash Site on a Desert Mountain Outside Las Vegas
volume 25, issue 1 2010 - Fiction
The Last Thing in the World
number 55 2009 - The Massachusetts Review
Glitter Gulch
volume 50, number 3 2009 - Yale Review
This Life or the Next
volume 97, number 4 2009 - New England Review
First Sight
volume 29, number 2 2008 - A Familiar Place
Cimarron Review, issue 49 2004 - New England Review
Driving Lessons
volume 25, number 3 2004 - New England Review
True Love Vs. the Cigar Store Indian
volume 21, number 2 2000
Editing and Reviews
- Gulf Coast
The Young and the Shiftless: Justin Taylor's Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever
volume 23, issue 1 2011
Presentations
- Literary Pub Quiz (reading), Pageturners Lounge, Omaha, NE 2016
- Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture (lecture on the characteristics of a creative-writing workshop), Omaha, NE 2015
- Wednesday Words: The Braided River Series (reading), Nebraska Arts Council/The Backwaters Press, Kaneko-UNO Library, Omaha, NE 2013
- Greengo Coffee & Deli (reading), with Brion Poloncic, Todd Robinson, Sarah Wehbe, and Killer Blow, Omaha, NE 2013
- Poetry at the Moon (reading), Crescent Moon Coffee, Lincoln, NE 2012
- Words Less Spoken (reading) 2012
- Visiting Writers Series (reading), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE 2012
- Nebraska Book Festival (reading), Lincoln, NE 2012
- Arthaus (lecture on the lifestyle and work habits of a writer), Omaha, NE 2012
- Missouri Valley Reading Series (reading), University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE 2011
- Vegas Valley Book Festival (lecture on writing memorable characters in fiction), Las Vegas, NV 2011
- Iowa City Book Festival (reading), Iowa City, IA 2011
- Magers & Quinn Booksellers (reading), with John Jodzio and Dessa, Minneapolis, MN 2011
- Barnes & Noble (reading), Henderson, NV 2011
- Creighton University Writers (reading), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with Brent Spencer and Mary Helen Stefaniak, Lincoln, NE 2011
- Writers and the Process Series (reading), Big Blue Marble Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA 2011
- KGB Bar (reading), with Urban Waite, New York, NY 2011
- Prairie Lights Books (reading), Iowa City, IA 2011
- Millsaps College (reading), Jackson, MS 2011
- Lindsay J. Cropper Writers Series (reading), University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 2011
- Vermin on the Mount (reading), Sushi Contemporary Performance and Visual Arts, San Diego, CA 2011
- Creighton Reading Series (reading) 2011
- The Bookworm (reading), Omaha, NE 2011
- Writing Center Reading Series (reading), Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE 2011
- The Writes of Spring (reading) 2010
- The Writes of Spring (reading) 2009
- Writing Center Reading Series (reading), Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE 2009
- Sewanee Writers’ Conference (reading), Sewanee, TN 2008
- An Evening of Prose and Poetry (reading), University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE 2008
- Crescent Moon Reading Series (reading), Crescent Moon Coffee, Lincoln, NE 2006
- Midwest Best Reading Series (reading and lecture on fact as a basis for fiction), The Reading Grounds, Omaha, NE 2006
- Get on the Mic (reading), Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, IA 2004
- Talk Art (reading), Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, IA 2004
Awards
- Creative Writing Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts - Finalist, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, “Novel-in-Progress” category
for Fortune City (novel in progress)
Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society - "Arboretum" anthologized in Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
"Arboretum" anthologized in Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
University of New Mexico Press - Silver Medal, "Short Story Fiction" category
for Greetings from Below: Stories
Independent Publisher Book Awards
Greetings from Below - Finalist, James Jones First Novel Fellowship
for Fortune City (novel in progress)
James Jones Literary Society/Wilkes University - Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award, Grand Prize
for Greetings from Below: Stories - Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature
Nebraska Arts Council - Notable Western Story of the Year, Best of the West 2011
"This Life or the Next" named a "Notable Western Story of the Year" in Best of the West 2011, New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
University of Texas Press - Silver Pen Award
"presented to emerging and mid-career Nevada authors of talent and promise"
Nevada Writers Hall of Fame - IGGY Award
"awarded to outstanding freshman mentors, counselors, advocates and role models"
Center for Student Success and Retention, Creighton University - Pushcart Prize
"Arboretum" nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Don Waters) - International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories
for Greetings from Below: Stories
Salt Publishing
Salt Publishing - Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (selected by David Means)
for Greetings from Below
Sarabande Books - Finalist, Katharine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize
for Greetings from Below
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference - Finalist, Hudson Prize
for Greetings from Below
Black Lawrence Press
“First Sight” named a “Notable Western Story of the Year” in Best of the West 2009, New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
University of Texas Press- Stanley Elkin Scholarship
Sewanee Writers' Conference - Pushcart Prize
“First Sight” nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Don Waters) - Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature
Yaddo - Finalist, Schaeffer Fellowship, International Institute of Modern Letters
Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Finalist, Fiction Prize (judged by Rick Moody)
for “Arboretum”
Indiana Review - Pushcart Prize
“Driving Lessons” nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Joyce Carol Oates) - Third Prize, College Fiction Contest
for “Driving Lessons”
Playboy
Consulting
- Guest Judge
2013-2014 Cropper Creative Writing Contest in Prose
University of San Diego
2014 - 2014 - Guest Judge
The Flintlock's Boatright Award in Prose (2011-2012)
Nebraska Wesleyan University
2012 - 2012