Walter Cummins has published seven short story collections, the most recent Telling Stories: Old & New, in 2015. His collection of essays and reviews, Knowing Writers, came out in 2017.
In addition to the books, Cummins has published more than 100 stories, as well as memoirs, essays, and reviews, in such magazines as Kansas Quarterly, New Letters, Other Voices, Crosscurrents, Florida Review, Arts & Letters, South Carolina Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, da Cuhna, and Confrontation, and on the Internet. His story collections are titled Witness, Where We Live, Local Music, The End of the Circle, The Lost Ones, Habitat: Stories of Bent Realism, and Telling Stories: Old & New. Early in his career, two novels, A Stranger to the Deed and Into Temptation, came out as paperback originals.
He also has published memoirs, essays, articles, and reviews. The book version of The Literary Explorer, written with Thomas E. Kennedy, was released in 2005. A study of the impact of TV on life in the U.S., Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity, co-written with George Gordon, was published by Praeger in 2006.