BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

Ben's profile of John Irving will appear in the April 23rd issue of TIME magazine.

Ben -- and his sister Jennifer Percy -- have both been named 2012 NEA fellows.

Ben is adapting his novel The Wilding into a screenplay for director Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams)

A profile of Ben recently appeared in The Oregonian.

The Wilding wins the 2011 Society of Midlands Authors Award for Fiction

The Gotham Group buys film rights to Red Moon. Click here to read the article in Variety.

Ben is excited to report that he has sold his next novel, Red Moon, to Grand Central / Hachette, where he will be working with editor Helen Atsma.

The Wilding received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. "A contemporary Deliverance."

Ben scaled and hammocked the night in a 250-ft old growth Douglas fir. His article "Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights" was featured in the October 9, 2010 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read.

Click here to read Ben's article "Home Improvement: Revision as Renovation" from Poets & Writers magazine.

USA Today has listed the illustrated adaptation of Refresh, Refresh as one of the top ten comics/graphic novels of the year.

Dodge dropped off a one-ton Ram at Ben's house. He writes about the experience in the Esquire. Click here to read the article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANTHOLOGIES

 

 

 



 

"Get a Job: the importance of work in prose and poetry" (originally published in Poets & Writers), The Writers' Notebook 2, Tin House Books, Fall 2012.

Literature: Craft and Voice, “The Roof People” ed. Nicholas DelBanco and Alan Cheuse, McGraw/Hill, 2012

"The Mud Man" in Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings, edited by BJ Hollars, the debut book from Pressgang, a new press out of Butler University. 2012.

"Invasion" Models for Writers: Short Essays and Composition, 11/e, by Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz, Bedford/St. Martins, 2012

"The Rubber Band Gun" in Significant Objects, Fantagraphics, 2011

"The Tree" New Stories from the Midwest, Ohio University Press, 2010

"Impact" Hint Fiction, edited by Robert Swartwood. W.W. Norton, 2010

"The Tree" Contemporary American Flash Fiction, edited by Todd James Pierce & Ryan Van Cleave, MacAdam/Cage  2010

"Dial Tone" American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s Until Now, edited by Peter Straub, Library of America, 2009

"Refresh, Refresh" in Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform, edited by Jeffery Hess. Press 53. 2009.

"Refresh, Refresh" You Must Be This Tall To Ride:  Stories On Growing Up and Essays by the People Who Wrote Them, ed. B.J. Hollars, Writers Digest Books, 2009

"Refresh, Refresh" Best of the Pushcart Prize, ed. Bill Henderson. 2009.

"Unearthed" Poe's Children, Random House, ed. Peter Straub, 2008

"Swans" Surreal South, Press 53, eds. Laura and Pinckney Benedict, 2008

"Refresh, Refresh" Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives. 2007. An audio anthology featuring actors reading such war fiction as Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." To purchase the album, click here.

"Refresh, Refresh" The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson

"Refresh, Refresh" Best American Short Stories 2006, ed. Ann Patchett, Houghton Mifflin

"The Worst University Ever" Sudden Stories, ed. Dinty Moore, Mammoth Books, 2003