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02/21/2026

SELU professor gives blistering accounting of grievance hearing for researcher pulled off Lake Maurepas research

Guest column by Dayne Sherman On Friday morning, 38 people assembled at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Fayard Hall to witness Dr. Fereshteh Emami’s grievance hearing. Emami, a celebrated analy…

01/03/2026

If you are free in New Orleans on Sunday, The Librarians is playing at the Prytania on Jan. 4 at 12:45 PM, with a panel discussion including Dayne Sherman as moderator, Amanda Jones, Lynette Mejia, and Katie Schwartzmann. https://www.theprytania.com/movies/the-librarians-2025?location=prytania-uptown&locationKey=4

Should be fun. Happy New Year!

Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy's frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond.

09/09/2025

Story about Dayne Sherman's yearlong battle against censorship and a gag order at SLU exposed. Hear all about it on Talk Louisiana. The podcast from WRKF/WWNO on 9/5/25. First, they came for the books. Then they came for the librarians. (Note: I do not speak for Southeastern Louisiana University.)

Congressman for Louisiana's 6th district Cleo Fields comments on various political topics including redistricting in Louisiana, Robert F. Kennedy, and Pres. Trump. Southeastern professor Dayne Sherman talks his recent feud with the university regarding his comments on Talk Louisiana.

08/21/2025

One year ago today, Southeastern Louisiana University President William Wainwright sent word to me to shut up, don't go on Jim Engster's Talk Louisiana WRKF show again, and don't call BS articles about Hammond "propaganda" on social media. Not on my own time and dime. OR ELSE. Or else I'd get demoted. A pay cut. Maybe even terminated. I'm not sitting silent. First, they came for the books. Then they came for the librarians. Read the letter from FIRE to Dr. Wainwright below. And I don't speak for SELU. Not here or anywhere. The PDF is a doozy. All the details. --Dayne Sherman, Writer.

SLU tells professor that he must stop discussing politics on his personal social media and local radio—or face punishment.

06/10/2025

My adoption story. Couple of minor errors--example: that I am an English professor (would never take the job). I also emphatically read a disclaimer that I DO NOT speak for SELU.

02/14/2025

My novel Zion is free Friday-Sunday. My gift to you. Please share. It's a Kindle ebook but you can read it on any computer, tablet, or smart phone.

From Dayne Sherman, the critically-acclaimed author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, comes a gothic treatment of the American South: a hard-charging depiction of religion, family, friendship, deception, and evil. Zion is a mystery set in the rural South, the story of a war fought over the killi...

09/26/2024

In celebration of Banned Books Week and the 20th anniversary of his 1st novel's publication, Dayne giving away Welcome to the Fallen Paradise ebooks from Sept. 26-30. Totally free. If you would like a code for a free audio book download for either of his novels, let him know. Please share and thanks!

10th Anniversary Edition of Award-Winning Welcome to the Fallen Paradise: A Novel By Dayne Sherman Includes Reader’s Guide for Book Groups and Author Interview Booklist Magazine's "Hard-Boiled Gazetteer to Country Noir" - Louisiana Pick, 2012 Baxter Parish, Louisiana, is a bloody place where fami....

09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day! The brutal story of my first job when I was 15 years old in Livingston Parish is free for two days. I hope you enjoy it. "Fat Boy" was published in the Arkansas Review. Thanks for reading and sharing.

If David Sedaris and John Grisham collaborated on the comic memoir of a kid’s first job, and Quentin Tarantino rewrote it as a noir masterwork, then “Fat Boy” would be that memoir. This short memoir retells the surreal insanity of Dayne Sherman’s life at fifteen years of age, showing the jag...

12/04/2023

Only FREE a few more hours. My novel Zion is a mystery set in Baxter Parish, . I hope you enjoy the Free Kindle. It hit #52 on the Amazon Top Free 100 list, and I gave away 2,505 copies so far. .

From Dayne Sherman, the critically-acclaimed author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, comes a gothic treatment of the American South: a hard-charging depiction of religion, family, friendship, deception, and evil. Zion is a mystery set in the rural South, the story of a war fought over the killi...

11/30/2023

My novel is FREE Wed.-Sun. this week.. Zion is a mystery set in Baxter Parish, Louisiana. I hope you enjoy the Free Kindle. (On Thursday my novel Zion hit #58 on the Amazon Top 100 .)

From Dayne Sherman, the critically-acclaimed author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, comes a gothic treatment of the American South: a hard-charging depiction of religion, family, friendship, deception, and evil. Zion is a mystery set in the rural South, the story of a war fought over the killi...

10/26/2023

Free through Saturday. My short story: "Chemistry." . Crime fiction. First published in the Louisiana Review at LSU-Eunice. Hope you like and tell others. It's a story about m**h cooks and in . https://a.co/d/f53kZHM

If you enjoyed "Breaking Bad" or This American Life's "Serial Podcast," you'll like Dayne Sherman's "Chemistry." "Chemistry" is the story of trust betrayed and the dangerous world of the War on Drugs. Set in Baxter Parish, Louisiana, "Chemistry" takes on the heart in conflict with itself, as Will...