David Cameron is a poet and novelist. His poems are collected in The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988–2016 (2016), Korean Letters (2020) and Red Dress (2023). He received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry in 2014. He has authored four books of fiction: Rousseau Moon (2000), The Ghost of Alice Fields (2014), Prendergast’s Fall (2019) and Femke (2023).

David Cameron's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.