David Joy (author)

Career

List of works

Novels

• Where All Light Tends to Go
• The Weight of This World
• The Line That Held Us
• When These Mountains Burn

  Nonfiction

• Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey
• Gather At The River: Twenty-Five Authors On Fishing Eds. David Joy and Eric Rickstad

  Short Stories

• “Stink Bait.” Writer's Bone.
• “Burning Off Into Forever.” Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia. Eds. Larry Smith and Charles Dodd White. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2015. 40–46.
• “What Cannot Be Carried Alone.” Still: The Journal, Issue 18.
• “The Line That Held Us.” Pisgah Review, 7.1 : 26–34.
• “The Stars Shall Withdraw Their Shining.” Flycatcher, No. 3.

  Essays

• “Dreaming Of Monster Fish.” Garden & Gun : 114–121.
• "Hunting Camp." Time.
• "At The Crossroads. The New York Times Magazine : 48–53.
• "Good Dog: Mutually Reclusive." Garden & Gun : 87–90.
• "A Charlotte Native Remembers Fish Camps." Charlotte Magazine : 54–59.
• "Digging In The Trash." The Bitter Southerner. 2 May 2017.
• “On Darkness." Criminal Element. 13 March 2017.
• “This Caravan Rolls On." The Quivering Pen. 6 March 2017.
• “My Privilege, Our Problem." Charlotte Magazine. 22 Sept. 2016.
• “One Place misUnderstood.” The Huffington Post. 23 June 2016.
• “One Place misUnderstood.” Writer’s Bone. 21 June 2016.
• “The Last Hotdog I Ever Ate.” Charlotte Magazine : 37–40.
• “The Man Who Carried Snakes.” The Good Men Project. 15 August 2015.
• “The Long Row.” Drafthorse Literary Journal 1.2.
• “Creatures of Fire.” Smoky Mountain Living 10.3 : 44–47.
• “Sound of Silence.” Smoky Mountain Living 10.1 : 42–45.
• “Native.” Smoky Mountain Living 9.4 : 54–56.
• “Breaking in the Cork.” Wilderness House Literary Review 4.1 : 1–9.
• “Tired and Feathered.” Bird Watcher's Digest 31.2 : 80–82.

  Translations

• Là où les lumières se perdent. France: Sonatine Editions, 2016.
• Le Poids du monde. France: Sonatine Editions, 2018.
• Wo Alle Lichter Enden. Germany: Polar Verlag, 2019.
• Ojo Por Ojo. Spain: RBA Libros, 2020.
• Ce Lien Entre Nous. France: Sonatine Editions, 2020.

  Awards

• 2019 St. Francis College Literary Prize Finalist
• 2019 Southern Book Prize
• 2018 WCSA Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
• 2017 Le Prix du Balai de Bronze for Là Où Les Lumières Se Perdent
• 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist for Where All Light Tends To Go'
• 2016 Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel
• 2016 Macavity Awards Finalist for Best First Novel
• 2015 SIBA Pat Conroy Book Award Finalist, The Lords of Discipline Thriller Prize
• 2015 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award Finalist
• 2012 Ragan Old North State Award Finalist
• 2012 Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist
• 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Award Finalist

  Interviews

• Los Angeles Review of Books
• NPR Weekend Edition with Lulu Garcia-Navarro
• WUNC North Carolina Public Radio's "The State Of Things" with Frank Stasio
• PANK Magazine
• NPR Weekend Edition Sunday with Lulu Garcia-Navarro
• The Huffington Post
• Georgia Public Broadcasting's "On Second Thought"
• WREK 91.1 Atlanta's "North Avenue Lounge"
• Mystery Tribune
• Nyctalopes
• Huffington Post
• Kirkus Reviews
• Appalachian Heritage
• Southern Literary Review
• Watauga Democrat
• Writer's Bone
• Entropy Magazine
• Largehearted Boy
• Chapter 16
• WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
• Smoky Mountain News
• Citizen Times

  Television Appearances

• University of Delaware's National Agenda Series, "As We Stand Divided"
• Alabama Public Television, "Book Mark"
• Arizona PBS, "Books & Co."