Dick Carmel's publications include the novel, Though We Have No Merits, published June 2020, an anthology of shorter fiction, Short Stories of Love and Loss, published December 2020, and a family espionage short story, The Child Returned to Her Mother, published March 2021.

Before those publications, Carmel's short fiction appeared in Origins Journal, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Akashic Books' Mondays Are Murder, Chicago Literati, Front Porch Review, bird's thumb, and Mash.

The Travel Today Magazine and the Law Review at Northwestern University have both published his nonfiction.