SHORT FICTION

"The Night It Happened," forthcoming in Rustica.

"Gratitudine," forthcoming in The Raleigh Review.

“A Beautiful Life,” Every Day Fiction, May, 2022. https://everydayfiction.com/a-beautiful-life-by-patricia-odonnell/ 
 
“The Season Our Neighbors Died,” fiction, in Cordella Magazine, April, 2022. https://www.cordella.org/fieldnotes/the-season-our-neighbors-died

"With Birds Flying Below Her" and "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," reprinted in Word Portland, 2019

"The Blue Rigi," r.kv.r.y. Quarterly Literary Journal, Spring 2019: http://rkvryquarterly.com/the-blue-rigi-by-patricia-odonnell/

"Deep Blue," 100 Word Story, http://www.100wordstory.org/6288/deep-blue/

“The Moon and the Ravine,” Read Short Fiction, July 19, 2016: http://www.readshortfiction.com /.
 
“The Smell of Lilacs,” Gravel, Summer 2016, University of Arkansas at Monticello. http://www.gravelmag.com/
 
“With Birds Flying Below Her,” Bryant Literary Review, Bryant University, Volume 17
 
“Chickadee,” Be Wilder, a “Word Portland” anthology, Fall 2015
 
“Defending the City,” Blue Lake Review, March 2014
 
“Above Portree,” Ostrich Review, McNeese University MFA Program, July 2012
 
“At the Beach, After the Fact” Fogged Clarity.  Both written and audio version. September, 2011.  https://foggedclarity.com/at-the-beach-after-the-fact/
 
“Gods for Sale,” fictionweekly.net, May 2009.  Nominated for Dzanc Books' Best of the Web Anthology (the 2010 print edition).   Reviewed at:  http://fivestarliterarystories.blogspot.com/2009/05/fiction-weeklypatricia-odonnellmary.html.
 
 “Helen of Troy,” short fiction in Dogwood:  A Journal of the Arts, Fairfield University, Spring 2005.  Finalist in the journal’s annual fiction contest.
 
“Shadow of An Angel,” in anthology Angel Over My Shoulder, published by Fair Winds Press, Fall 2004
 
“Rain,” Facets, October 2003
 
 “True Stories,” The Sandy River Review, Fall, 2003
 
“Early November,” in anthology Women Running: Stories of Transformation, HerBooks, Spring 2001

“Scales,” Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Winter 2001
 
“Anything,” American Literary Review, University of North Texas, Fall 2000
 
“Eve of All Saints,” Short Story, Fall 2000, University of Texas at Brownsville
 
“The Man Who Might Be Thomas,” The Maine Scholar, Fall 1999
 
“Altitudes,” The Bridge, Fall/Winter 1997
 
“Dangerous Promise,” Short Story, Fall 1996
 
“The Cloth-Covered Box,” Nightshade Nightstand Reader, Nightshade Press, Fall 1996
 
“Unexplained Lights,” The Quotable Moose anthology, New England Press, 1995
 
“Electricity,” Epiphany: A Journal of Literature, University of Arkansas, Spring 1992
 
“Unexplained Lights,” Short Story, University of Northern Iowa, Winter/Spring 1992
 
“Wedding Story,” Parting Gifts, March Street Press, 1990
 
“The Gulf of Mexico,” The Eloquent Edge anthology, Acadia Press, 1989
 
“Desire,” The North American Review, September 1988
 
“The Eloquence of Light,” Agni Review, 24/25, 1987
 
“Amusement,” Iowa Woman, March, 1987
 
“Old Friends,” The O. Henry Festival of Stories, Trans-Verse Press, 1987
 
“Mountains,” 4-Minute Fictions, anthology, Word Beat Press, 1987
 
“Farber and Mr. White,” The New Yorker, February 6, 1984
 
“A Visit,” The North American Review, 1984
 
“Mountains,” The North American Review, 1978
 
 NONFICTION

"Darning" in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, Issue 72, January 2023
https://brevitymag.com/current-issue/darning/

"Darning" reprinted in SugarSugarSalt Magazine, February 23, 2025.

“Salad Days” in Breaking Bread: Maine Writers of Food, Craving, and Life, Beacon Press, June 2022
 
“On Being Immeasurable,” www.wewhocreate, February 2021. https://www.wewhocreate.com/
 
"Ghosts," Decor Maine, March 2020: https://www.decormaine.com/essay/ghosts?rq=ghosts&fbclid=IwAR3vqhfdrB-uPKWHv2ctHD3zFblO7TR0xCjJx3gN8usXl8K5Z3VYLgjW37k
 
“Easter,” Cordella Magazine, May 2020:
https://www.cordella.org/fieldnotes/2020/5/15/easter
 
"Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," HCE Review Volume 1, Issue VI. https://hcereview.com/2017/09/10/volume-i-issue-vi-of-hce-review-is-now-online/
 
Foreword to Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House by Susan Dorman, Wipf and Stock publishers, Fall 2014
 
“Electricity,” Storm Cellar, August 2014
 
Interview on ostrichreview.com website, June, 2012
 
“Translation,” in So Long:  Short Narratives of Loss and Remembrance anthology, Telling Our Stories Press, July 2012
 
“Taking Heart for Poetry,” Maine Humanities Council website, April, 2011
 
“Awful Things Happening,” review of books by Elizabeth Strout and Jason Brown, DownEast, May, 2008
 
“Using a Preceptor in a Creative Writing Classroom,” Pedagogy Forum, publication of the Associated Writing Programs, Spring of 2007
 
“The Art of Assigning Exercises,” Pedagogy Papers, AWP Conference, March 2004
 
“Liberal Arts Education in the United States,” Keynote address,  Proceedings of the Toyohashi Conference on General Education, 1997
 
“The Education Major in the Writing Classroom,” Northwords, University of Maine at Orono, Fall 1996
 
Review of The Fly Must Die by Christopher Fahey, Maine in Print, 1993
 
Review of Light and Power by Ian McMillan, North American Review, June 1981
 
 POEMS
 
"Sixteen Kinds of Emptiness," Gemini Magazine, September 2020. Nominated for Pushcart Prize http://gemini-magazine.com/odonnellsixteenkindsofemptiness.html
 
“What I Love,” Northern New England Review, Franklin Pierce University, Volume 36
 
“Preparing for Grief,” in Beloved on the Earth:  150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, Holy Cow! Press, April, 2009
 
“The Ecstasy of Always Bursting Forth,” prose poem inspired by the Goldberg Variations.  Presented twice at UMF in the spring of 2007, with Dr. Stephen Pane playing a selection from the Variations
 
“There Are Many Ways for the Mind to Go Wrong,” College Poetry Review, anthologized in Pegasus, 1974
 
“Lessons,” two poems, The North American Review, 1972