BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

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 about it will appear in The Wall Street Journal this September.

Ben has a short story -- called "James Franco" -- that will appear in the September issue of Esquire.

Ben has an article in the June issue of Outside magazine called "Never Been to Disneyland."

Ben reads from his story -- "Heart of a Bear" -- published in the March/April issue of Orion. Download the podcast here.

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

In February of 2011 filmmaker James Ponsoldt will begin filming "Refresh, Refresh" on-site in Central Oregon

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prizes, Honors and Awards


 

"The Killing" (originally published in Salt Hill Journal) named one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2008 in Best American Short Stories 2009, ed. Alice Sebold.

$50,000 Whiting Award, The Whiting Foundation, 2008

Winner of the Ann Powers Book-length Fiction Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers, 2008

"Somebody is Going to Have to Pay for This" (originally published in the Paris Review) named one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2007 in Best American Short Stories 2008, ed. Salman Rushdie

"In the Rough" (originally published in the Antioch Review) named one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2007 in Best American Short Stories 2008, ed. Salman Rushdie

"Wal-Mart and the Apocalypse and Me" (originally published in Green Mountains Review) named one of the 100 Notable Essays of 2007 in Best American Essays 2008, ed. Adam Gopnik

The Pushcart Prize Fellowship, 2007

John Gardner Fellowship in Fiction, Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Summer 2007

$10,000 Plimpton Prize, The Paris Review, 2007

The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon University Press) short-listed for the Story Prize

"Refresh, Refresh," The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, 2007.

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

"Where to Begin" $1,000 Tamarack Award, Minnesota Monthly, 2006

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

Tennessee Williams Scholarship, 2003 Sewanee Writers' Conference

"Falling" $1,500 Prize, 2002 Nelson Algren Award, The Chicago Tribune