David James Keaton

David James Keaton's work has appeared in over 50 publications, including Noir at the Bar, Chicago Quarterly Review, Thuglit, Pank, Beat To A Pulp, The Fiddleback, Needle, Pulp Modern, and Grift. Recently, he won a Best Short Story on the Web Spinetingler Award for his roulette scam in Crime Factory #8, and his coach-killing contribution to Plots With Guns #10 was named a Notable Story of 2010 by storySouth's Million Writer's Award. He has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flywheel Magazine. He is constantly tinkering with several screenplays, including a prison movie, a thriller, and a western, occasionally adapting them into novels. He realizes this method is probably backwards.