| October 23, 2025
Psychotherapist and book inc writer Lou Storey shares how he copes with rejection, employing psychotherapy techniques to stay motivated and resilient.
Writers
Writers
Lou Storey
member since 2023
Biography
Lou Storey is a visual artist and retired psychotherapist living in Savannah, Georgia, with his husband, Steve. Lou’s writings have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Tiny Love Stories, Burningwood Literary Journal, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Blue Mountain Literary Review, Multiplicity Magazine, Beyond Queer Words Anthology, recent Short Story Competition Winner WriteTime Magazine, and 2024 finalist Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival. He is a Flannery O’Connor Peacock Guild member and a featured artist in the documentary film The Creative Imperative. His first novel, “The Big Bad Blockbusters,” will be published in 2026 by Legacy Book Press.
Journal
| March 27, 2025
Novelist Lou Storey describes how he learned to overcome feeling "written into a corner" by applying the same playful, experimental approaches he uses in his visual art to his writing practice.
| November 21, 2024
In this Q&A with SPILLWORDS, Lou Storey reflects on his journey from visual artist to psychologist to writer, sharing insights on creative inspiration.
| November 16, 2023
book inc writer and retired psychotherapist Dr. Lou Storey discusses the challenge of crafting authentic characters and shares his insights into the psychology of character transformation.
| May 26, 2022
Novel writer Lou Storey was honored to participate in a documentary about artists. He learned why it's important to leave his mark as a writer.
Publications
Interview
- August 2025 | “When the Moon Sings: Author and Artist Lou Storey” | WRUU Radio 107.5 Savannah
Flash Fiction
- 2026 | “Stopping at Roses” | BULL
- April 2023 | “Queen of the Prom” | Flash Fiction Magazine
Creative Nonfiction
- Spring/Summer 2022| “Run Tip Run” | Multiplicity Magazine
- Spring 2022 | “Unwinding the Clock” | 3rd Act Magazine
- July 2022| “The Big Cheese” | Blue Mountain Review
- Third Quarter 2022 | “Mind the Gap” | Haunted Waters Press
- Interview with Lou Storey | Haunted Waters Press
- Summer 2021 | “We All Cover” | 3Elements Literary Review
- Spring/Summer 2020 | “Culinary Coercion” | (Re) An Ideas Journal
- August 2020 | “Acre of Moon” | Sad Girls Club
- October 2021 | “Never Finished” | Burningwood Literary Journal
Poetry
- 2026 | “Saturday Shopping” | Unbroken #49
- May 2026 | “Pantoum for a Family of Devils” | Spillwords
- 2025 | “Shellshocked: Father & Son” | Purple Ink Press: Tender Masculinities
- May 2024 | “Bloom Above Thorn: A Sonnet” | Spillwords Press
- March 2024 | “Gwinnett Street Book Box” | Spillwords Press
- May 2022 |“Fifty Men Race” | Beyond Words, p. 8
- May 2021| “The Why of Trees” | Tiny Seed Literary Journal
- May 2021| “Poems by L. Storey” | In Parentheses
Printed Publications
- 2025 | “The Window” | A Twist on Time: An Anthology of Short Stories, Smoking Pen Press
- Spring 2024 | “The Art Handler” | The First Line Journal
- May 2022 | “I Heard” | Blink-Ink, Issue #48
- Spring 2022 | “Unwinding the Clock” | 3rd Act Magazine, p.16
- 2022 | “Inviting Sanctuary” | The Power of the Pause, pp. 194-198
- 2022 | “Punch Chicken” | Tin Can Literary Review, Vol. II, pp 20-21
- December 2021 | “The Man that Set Me Free” | Beyond Queer Words, pp. 31-32
- April 2021 | “What the Witch Told Me” | Beyond Words, Issue 13, p. 46
- 2021 | “Newfangled” | Stories Through The Ages, pp. 202-211
- 2020 | “The Forty-Eighth Date” | Tiny Love Stories, The Book, New York Times, p. 111
- 2015 | “Noetic Inspiration” | Foundation Theology, pp. 147-171
- 2017 | “Near Death Experience” | Foundation Theology, pp. 107-125
- 2008 | “Interview” | The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Book, p. 98