Check out my Electric Literature reading list of poetry collections with a compelling sense of place. Excellent books by @estebanjrod11, January Gill O'Neil, @marianneLchan, Lisa Ampleman, Anna Laura Reeve, ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ kinsale ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹, Dan Leach, and @JohnLinstrom. electricliterature.com/8-poetry-colle…

Bottomlessly grateful to see Stray Latitudes on this list: electricliterature.com/8-poetry-colle…. Thanks Abbie Kiefer for your kind words!

I'm grateful to have found the poems of Abbie Kiefer. These feel lived. Their wisdom, earned.

I just had a beer with my driveway and the moon. These guys were there too: Marie/Lepanto.

My first novel is up for pre-order. Much love and thanks if you can swing it: hubcity.org/books/fiction/…

Apocalypse time. Hub City Press

Dream stuff over here: Junah got a Kirkus star! kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/d…

Thanks for all the pub day love! It's cool knowing Junah is out in the world, and that (with a little luck) it'll find the right folks. If you end up reading it, please do drop a line. It's the most personal thing I've ever written, and I'd love to hear it stirred up for you.

JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD--the “eerily prescient and poetically elegiac first novel” by Dan Leach--is out now & Ryan Ridge is here to review the goods 📚 Get back in the Y2K groove & snag yr copy via Hub City Press 💥 southwestreview.com/the-end-is-alw…

“Set in the twilight of 1999, it’s not just a coming-of-age story, but a coming-of-apocalypse tale” 📌ICYMI, Ryan Ridge reviews JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Dan Leach out now via Hub City Press southwestreview.com/the-end-is-alw…

New work up at Terrain.org. One's about the strangeness of childhood. The other's about the strangeness of childhood. Two Poems by Dan Leach - terrain.org/2025/poetry/da… via @terrainorg

Lit Hub asked me to rank the five best anti-novels. Here's my list: lithub.com/five-experimen… Michael Bible Literary Hub Maggie Nelson Bot Hub City Press

New interview at ZONA MOTEL with Michael Bible. zonamotel.substack.com/p/interview-da…

Iced tea/Omar Ortez… JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD 1st novel Dan Leach Dan Leach When outsider sunglasses kid w a speech impediment Junah Simmons walks into class Sept. '99 the chalkboard reads THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE. Another full-hearted from Hub City Hub City Press.

"Towards the end of the novel, Junah’s scuzzy first crush (Sadie) introduces him to two forms of apocalyptic 'medicine': stolen beer and punk rock." Dan Leach shared a playlist for his debut novel, Junah at the End of the World at David Gutowski largeheartedboy.com/2025/07/14/dan…

Badass artist from Australia did a piece based on my book. Thrilled and honored.

New interview up at Hobart: hobartpulp.com/web_features/j…

"I was born with a definite pervasive melancholy." This from an existential bone-crusher by Conor Hultman over at Hobart: hobartpulp.com/web_features/b….

Check out CofC MFA student Jimmy Passaro's interview with Dan Leach (Dan Leach), author of the South Carolina Novel Writing Series award winner, JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD: swamp-pink.charleston.edu/fragmentation-…