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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHORT FICTION

"Like Elwood Reid and Jim Harrison, Benjamin Percy's stories are big-muscled and big-hearted.  His characters hurl themselves toward change like salmon hurling their way home.  This is feisty American fiction."

Alyson Hagy, Author of Graveyard of the Atlantic, Keeneland, Hardware River and Madonna on her Back.

 



 

"Wanting Only To Be Gone" The Normal School Fall 2011

"Writs of Possession" Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2011

"The Rubberband Gun" The Iowa Review, Fall 2010

"The Roof People" World Literature Today, guest-edited by Alan Cheuse, Fall 2010

"The Cold Boy" Gulf Coast, Fall 2010.

"The Locksmith" (an excerpt from The Wilding, a novel) Tin House, "Class in America" issue, Fall 2010.

"The Red Balloon" Ploughshares, Fall 2010

"Wanting Only to be Gone" Esquire UK, October 2010

"James Franco" Esquire, September 2010

"The Neighborhood" The Drum (a literary magazine for your ears), Issue 2, Summer 2010.

"The Sundering" Fogged Clarity, Print Issue #1, Summer 2010.

"Dogfight" Los Angeles Review, Spring 2010

"Who Is This Host Arrayed In White" Southern Indiana Review, Spring 2010

"Heart of a Bear" Orion, February / March 2010

"When the Bear Came" Harvard Advocate, The Bestiary Issue, Winter 2009 / 2010.

"The Long, Black Coat" Cemetery Dance, Issue #63, Winter 2009/10

"The Rifle" Texas Review, Winter 2009/10

"The Mud Man" The Southern Review, Winter 2009/10

"The Mud Man" Untitled Books (UK), Winter 2009/10

"The Tree" University of Plymouth Press (UK), Fall 2009

"The Tree" Ecotone, Fall 2009

"Terminal" Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2009-10

"Run" The L Magazine, Summer Fiction Issue, 2008

"Somebody Is Going To Have to Pay For This" Barcelona Review, Issue 63, May 2008

"April 20, 2008" Esquire, May, 2008

"The Long, Black Coat" Hobart, Fall 2007

"The Killing" Salt Hill Journal, Fall 2007

"The Whisper " Cream City Review , Fall 2007

"So Far From Anything" Esquire, October, 2007

"When the Bear Came" American Short Fiction, Summer 2007

"In the Rough " The Antioch Review, Summer 2007

"The Caves in Oregon" Glimmer Train, Issue #64, Summer 2007

"Dial Tone" Missouri Review, Issue 30:2, Summer 2007

"Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This" The Paris Review, Issue #180, Spring 2007

"The Faulty Builder" ReDivider , Vol. 4, Issue# 2, Spring 2007

"Obsidian Junior High -- November" Esquire, February 2007

"Where to Begin" Minnesota Monthly, $1,000 winner of the Tamarack Award, Issue 312, November 2006

"Unearthed" Rosebud, Issue #36, Summer 2006

"The Hand" Storyglossia, Issue #13, Spring 2006

"Refresh, Refresh" The Paris Review, #175, Winter 2005/06

"The Bearded Lady Says Goodnight" Swink, Issue #3, Spring 2006

"Winter's Trappings" Hayden's Ferry Review, Fall 2005

"The Iron Moth" Greensboro Review, Spring 2005

"The Woods" AMAZING Stories, Issue # 608 , January 2005

"The Funeralgoer" Carve Magazine, January 2005

"Unearthed" Sycamore Review, Winter 2004/05

"Bigfooting" Rosebud, Winter 2004/05

"Crash" Western Humanities Review, Fall 2004

"Swans" Idaho Review, $1,000 Editor's Prize, Volume VI, 2004

"The Whale" The Land-Grant College Review, Featured Author for March 2004

"The Indian Way " FrostProof Review, Inaugural Issue, Spring 2004

"Zombies!" Midnight Mind Magazine, Page-One Column, Spring 2004

"Getting the Most Out of Your Weekend" Pindeldyboz, Fall 2003

"The Worst University Ever" Midnight Mind Magazine, Page-One Column, Summer 2003

"The Language of Elk" Greensboro Review, Spring 2003

"The Whale" Florida Review, Spring 2003

"Falling" The Chicago Tribune, $1,500 Nelson Algren Award, Sunday, October 27, 2002

"Placeville" The Eternal Night, September 2002

"What Would You Rather?" Mississippi Review, "Ordinary Evil" Issue, Summer 2002