Benjamin Davis

*not the cat

Benjamin Davis spends most of his time co-running Chill Subs and writing The Sub Club Newsletter. He has poems in several journals including Moon City Review, Maudlin House, and Softblow, with other works in Booth, wigleaf, Matter Press, and Cease, Cows. His debut poetry collection, The King of FU (Nada Blank 2018), was such a smashing success it shocked the indie press who published it into an early grave. He is now working on his first six novels. contact: davis.benjamin.s@gmail.com

Selected works:

Ongoing Projects:

• 2024… Sorry for the Inconvenience — A Submitter’s Guide to Lit Mags
• 2023… The Sub Club Newsletter (Weekly submission opportunities for writers)
• 2023… Thread Litmag (an experiment in micro publishing – Editor)
• 2023… Things We Do While Waiting To Die (Chill Subs startup diary on Substack)
• 2021… What Happened When Frank Died (Fiction Serial) — Talk Vomit
• 2018… Sexography (Medium’s #1 sex & sexuality publication – Founding Editor)

Completed Projects:

• 2018 – 2021 – Developed and wrote the Conversations with Russians culture column for Russia Beyond. Exploring various topics, from the pointless to the profound, through conversations with Russians.
• 2021 – 2023 – Developed and wrote a monthly column of conversations about how men’s perception of sex has changed since the days of gossiping in locker rooms for Lustery POV.
• 2016 – 2017 – Flash 365 a collaborative blog with artist Nikita Klimov creating one story and image per day for one year.

Longer Works

• The King of FU (Poem Collection) — Nada Blank Press
• The Babushka Society (Radio Play) — She’s In Russia Podcast

Illustrated Works

• Inside The Last Cinnamon Raisin Bagel — Booth
• An Invasion Of Fundiks — Space Squid
• The Uninvited Guests — Slippery Elm Press (finalist for the Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize)
• The Fox And The Bear — Little Old Lady Comedy

Coming soon…

• You Sound Just Like Your Mother — Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
• Fourth Of July For Beginners — Moon City Review
• There Is No Way To Watch a Sitcom on a Moving Train but Let’s Give It a Shot — wigleaf
• I Know It Shouldn’t Bother Me That Macy’s Will Outlive Me But It Does — wigleaf
• Nothing Can Get Us At The End Of The World Except Maybe This Tiger — wigleaf

Selected Poetry

• Poems For Pigeons — Olney
• Nazis Eating Chicken — Third Wednesday (Honorable Mention – 3rd Wednesday’s Annual Poetry Contest)
• Chopsticks In Chinese Restaurants — Eunoia Review
• Basement Blues — Rat’s Ass Review
• Slow Motion Man — Digging Press
• Lost In Isolation — Star 82 Review

Collections

• Lovedumb Struck & 3 More Poems — Softblow
• What Happened Outside The 2nd Story Window Of Mokhovaya Ulitsa 32 — Scrawl Place
• What Are You Wearing Right Now? (An Outfit Of Four Poems) — Maudlin House
• Three Poems On My Path To Spiritual Enlightenment — Maudlin House
• Three Poems That Have Something (Or Nothing) To Do With Love — Maudlin House
• Three Poems Sponsored By My Seasonal Depression — Maudlin House
• Three Prose Poems That Might Be About Cats — Maudlin House

Flash Nonfiction

• Welcome Home And Try Not To Die — Jimson Weed
• Crying At The Russian Ballet — Hobart Pulp
• Huggerlovers — Sky Island Journal
• How To Wave At Strangers In Cars — 5×5
• Feeding Bears While Waiting For A Friend Outside The Great Wall Of China — Blink Ink
• Forty Cents Worth Of A Story — Star 82 Review

Selected Fiction

• Popstar Mermaid In A Trash Storm Along The Mississippi — Intrepidus Ink (Nominated for Pushcart)
• Perennial’s Gift — Crow & Cross Keys
• Expatriating Down A Rabbit Hole — Bending Genres
• The Most Beautiful Woman In The World — Cease, Cows
• Teacup — Five On The Fifth
• Oonglefubblejimp — Lotus Eater
• The Last Cinnamon Raisin Bagel — Jersey Devil Press
• Houses Of Straw — Better Than Starbucks
• Frazzled Ms. Frizzle And Her Magic Fucking Schoolbus — Misery Tourism
• Egg Nation — Scrawl Place

Humor

• The Lady Who Kicks Trees — Witcraft (Pending)
• 30 Job Interview Questions for the Position of Writer — Slackjaw
• Donald And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Pandemic — Points In Case
• Kids These Days — Defenestration

Selected Essays

• Why I Submit to Literary Magazines – The Writing Cooperative
• Contemplating My Bisexuality While Gettin’ Swole — Human Parts
• Coping With Unemployment While My Grandmother Is Dying — Human Parts
• Everyone Who Smokes Virginia Slims Is Dead Except Me. Apparently. — Human Parts
• My Brother Eats Carrots And I Get Hit With Sticks — Human Parts
• On Being An International Company In A Messed-Up World — Human Parts
• The Massage That Made Me Betray My Country — Human Parts
• Are We Eating Each Other Alive In The Indie Lit World? — Lit Mag News
• Some Hard Truths About Soft Dicks — Lustery POV