Novel · 2018
Give Them Unquiet Dreams
A luminous, beautifully told fairy tale grounded in history and elevated by spirit. Named one of Kirkus’s Best Books of 2019 — the novel readers most often ask me about first.
A Guide for Readers, Writers & Students
All My Sites & Books
One writer keeps returning to the same waters — the same streets, faces, and preoccupations — and the work spreads out from there into books, classrooms, reading rooms, and a small press. This page is the map. Below you will find every published title with its Amazon listing, every website I keep, and every doorway into the wider Silver Current Press ecosystem, arranged the way a reader would look for them rather than the way the internet happens to file them.
The Books
The Whole Shelf, in One Place
Novels, story collections, and poems — each linked to its Amazon listing. For the deeper catalogue, essays, and reading‑group guides, see the full Books page.
Novel · Italian‑American Boston
Molly Bonamici
A coming‑of‑age novel whose stubborn, tender protagonist descends from Defoe’s Moll Flanders and from a lineage of Boston women who refused to be tidied.
Novel · Grief & the Sacred
A Prayer for Home
A novel about faith, family, and the small mercies that keep a life together after the loudest things have gone quiet.
Poetry · Selected Poems
Crossings: Selected Poems
Twenty years of poems gathered under one cover — water, fire, memory, and the thin places where the living and the dead keep company.
Stories · Silver Current Press
All We Ever Needed: Stories
A collection built on recurrence — the same faces returning under new names, the ordinary revealed as holy in the middle of an ordinary afternoon.
Stories · The Aiden Cycle
About Aiden: Selected Stories
Selected stories tracing a single family across decades and generations — the linked‑story mode Silver Current Press keeps returning to.
Stories · Early Collection
Assumptions and Other Stories
The story collection where the recurring images first surface — stigmata as ordinary stains, sunlight as hellfire, and mercy as the shape a life takes when nothing else works.
Stories · Later Collection
Blindfolded and Other Stories
A darker companion to Assumptions — stories about what people let themselves not see, and what refuses to stay hidden anyway.
Also on the shelf: the teaching titles, the anthology credits, and the earlier chapbooks. See the full Books page or the Amazon Author Page for the complete list.
The Press & The Salon
Where the Books Get Made
The publishing house, its literary gathering place, and the library it curates.
Silver Current Press
The independent press I founded to publish literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including my own work.
Visit the pressTeaching — The Hub
One page for the whole of the teaching work: the literary salons, the ten-session creative-writing course, memoir consulting, and self-paced resources for adult writers and secondary-school teachers. All live teaching is in person in the Philadelphia region.
Visit the teaching hubThe 2601 Literary Salon
Named for a Boston street address that keeps resurfacing in my fiction, this is where serious readers and writers gather for courses, craft talks, and a standing invitation to argue about books.
Enter the salonThe Mulhern Story Library
A growing shelf of annotated short fiction for readers and students.
Browse the libraryProfessor Mulhern’s Whiteboard
Classroom handouts and printable teaching notes, kept live for students and fellow teachers alike.
Open the whiteboardBooks & Essays Sample
A sample of published work — the story collection All We Ever Needed, an essay on themes of mercy, and a look at the wider catalog.
View the sample
Teaching & Courses
Where the Craft Gets Taught
Courses, companions, and a live tool informed by three decades of classroom experience.
The Art of Telling
Ten sessions on developing a story, informed by thirty years in the classroom.
Explore the courseThe Art of Telling Companion
A workbook that accompanies the course, with exercises and annotated examples.
Open the companion
For Writers Considering Submission
Before You Send Your Pages
Field guides written from the other side of the slush pile, one for each form Silver Current Press publishes.
Memoir & Personal Essay Submissions
What actually happens to a memoir manuscript after you hit submit — written for writers tired of guessing.
Read the guideShort Story Submissions
A short-story writer’s field guide to Silver Current Press — what we’re looking for, and what quietly gets a manuscript rejected.
Read the guidePublishing Poetry
Notes from the other side of the slush pile, after decades of reading — and judging — poetry submissions.
Read the guideSubmitting Poetry
A submission-side companion to Publishing Poetry — what to send, how to send it, and what happens next.
Read the guide
Press, Booksellers & Readers
Everything Else You Might Need
Press Kit
Press materials for journalists, reviewers, and booksellers, including bios, high-resolution covers, and selected blurbs.
Open the press kitAmazon Author Page
Every book I’ve published, gathered under one listing — the fastest way to see the whole shelf at once.
See the booksThe Substack Newsletter
Literary fiction, poetry, and craft notes delivered straight to your inbox — including a free weekly serialization of Give Them Unquiet Dreams, one chapter at a time, exactly as a reader in 1978 might have waited for the next installment. Forthcoming: new essays, stories, and poems as they're finished.
Subscribe for freeMulhern Teaches English (Shop)
The full catalog of craft handouts, literary-analysis workbooks, and downloadable essay editions in one storefront — instant delivery, no classroom required.
Browse the shopGoodreads
Reader reviews, ratings, and the full bibliography in one place.
See the reviewsProfessional background, teaching history, and editorial work.
Connect on LinkedInThe Author Site
Books, essays, sample writing, and the press kit — the home base this very map lives on.
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