Writer of True Stories

An aspiring writer for three of his four decades on the planet, Storey Clayton recently earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at West Virginia University (May 2021). He’s worked as a youth counselor, debate coach, strategic analyst, development director, rideshare driver, and poker player.

His nonfiction has appeared in more than twenty literary journals, including Southeast Review, upstreet, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Blue Earth Review, and Pleiades. A full list of publications, including links, is available below.

Storey is actively seeking representation for his rideshare memoir Driving for U: Behind the Wheel of a New Orleans Uber. Fifteen of his published pieces are excerpts from this completed book. He is also seeking representation for a second memoir, Forty Weeks in 2020: A Future Father Faces his Fears, about facing anxiety during his wife’s pandemic pregnancy. Nine published pieces (and one forthcoming) are excerpts from this completed book.

Storey has lived in thirteen cities across nine states and DC. He’s a pacifist, a vegetarian, a debater, and a non-profiteer. He blogs periodically at StoreyTelling on The Blue Pyramid and at Clarion Content. He currently lives with his wife Alex and son Graham in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His day job is as a Grants Administrator at Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health.

Storey believes that Black Lives Matter and we should Defund the Police.

Pending
Proof Through the Night, The Quarter(ly) – expected Spring 2023

2023
Positive, Hindsight (print anthology)

2022
Glass Houses, Southeast Review (print | online)
Reconciliation, Flypaper Lit (online)

2021
The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died, upstreet [Issue 17] (print)
On the Dotted Line, Sepia Journal (online) – Best of the Net 2021 Nominee
Crossing Bourbon, Dead Mule (online)

2020
Week Eighteen, Blue Earth Review [Issue 25] (print)
Ambiguity, Lunch Ticket (online)
The Ping Not Taken, El Portal (online)
The Two Reasons You Wear a Black Suit to Church, Five on the Fifth (online)
The Revolution Game, Drunk Monkeys (online)
The Summer of ’46, Pleiades (print)

2019
Playing Augmented Reality Games on the Eve of a Mass-Extinction, Unearthed (online)
Jorgia Wants a Chapter, North Dakota Quarterly (print | online)
Overheard in Uber, Here Comes Everyone (print)
Unbecoming Doogie, Mud Season Review (online)
The Nature of New Orleans, Turtle Island Quarterly (online)
Pancake Night, The Bookends Review (online)
To See a Rabbit, Typehouse Literary Magazine (print | online)
The Rest of the Story, Burning House Press (online)
Cars with Strangers, Barely South Review (print | online)
Uber Confessions, Blood & Bourbon (print)
Outside Looking in, Pilcrow & Dagger (print)

2018
With Friends Like These, Spitfire Literary Magazine (online)
Lost and Found, Riggwelter (online) – Best of the Net 2019 Nominee
Long Night’s Journey into Day, Eunoia Review (online)
Mortals, Montana Mouthful (print | online)

Craft Essays & Writing Interviews
“About the Work,” January 2023, Southeast Review
“Interview with Dad and Writer Extraordinaire, Storey Clayton,” February 2021, interview by Kasey Renee Shaw, Little Death Lit
“I Know a Place: the Importance of Setting in Creative Nonfiction,” August 2020, Typehouse Literary Magazine
“Drawing Out the Core,” August 2019, interview by Julie Patterson, Mud Season Review

Debate Interviews
“Rutgers debate team beats Harvard, places second at nationals,” April 2014, by Sabrina Restivo, The Daily Targum
“Rutgers Debate Union Trumps Harvard,” March 2013, by Lisa Intrabartola, Rutgers Today
“A Guide to Spotting Pretzel Logic on the Campaign Trail,” August 2012, by Scott Neuman, NPR
“Underdog Rutgers Debate Team Rises to National Ranks,” April 2011, by Lisa Intrabartola, Rutgers Today

Nonprofit Video Interview
“CIS of Greater New Orleans: Who We Are, What We Do,” November 2015, Greater New Orleans Foundation

Storey Clayton