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Ben Brindise
@benbrindise.bsky.social
Writer, Flash Fiction Editor: Variety Pack / Issue 12 Out Now / Author of Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019) & Rotten Kid (Ghost City Press, 2017) / benjaminbrindise.com
We got out there. Fall’d it up. Big time.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
fall sky
sky fall
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Thanks to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for publishing my flash fiction story Bonus Land in their Fall 2025 issue today.

If you like dark comedy about the absurdities of modern economic life, find the full story in the issue.
September 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Looking forward to checking out the Fall issue of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social later this month

It includes my flash fiction story Bonus Land which follows a guy working in collections

I appreciate them taking a chance on this one that gets a little weird
September 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“We were happy people, and we made the people we passed happy, smiles rippling behind us like wakes. I thought, Why not?”

- Epithalamium, Bill Roorbach
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Next Week: WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE feat Ten Thousand

Just Buffalo Teaching Artist Ten Thousand, known for his freestyle features, is a five time national poetry slam representative and Buffalo team coach.

Catch his feature at 9pm with an open mic to follow
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
yesterday we celebrated a friends birthday playing mush ball & today I’m doing back stretches on the living room rug
September 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
living the dream

(the dream in this case being publishing stories & driving around New England)
August 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Sometimes I name characters in stories after family members for fun — why not, ya know?

Unlike cousin Jimmy in White Elephant (Hooghly Review, 2025) my cousin Jimmy is a great guy & we celebrated his wedding last weekend in Cleveland
August 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tomorrow Charlotte, NC Poet Laureate Jay Ward hits Buffalo for a workshop & feature set

Workshop: 6pm - Caffe at Amy’s
Feature: 9pm - Caffe Aroma
August 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Who can read the world?
August 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We had an incredible time workshopping with Buffalo’s Poet Laureate Aitina Fareed-Cooke at the first WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE workshop

Catch Jay Ward (Charlotte, NC Poet Laureate) headlining and workshop leading this month!

📸: Kalvin Booker
August 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This one’s about pacemakers and second chances.

Thanks again to Arts for Learning WNY for including me in this project.
August 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This past week, my spoken word poem Dear Kia Boys was published in the Buffalo Hive along with a conversation between me & co-host of WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE @justinkarcher.bsky.social

Thanks to them for giving a home to this piece.
August 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I wrote five stories about inventions in Buffalo to be paired with community created paintings of those inventions

They’re currently on display at the Conventus Connects Gallery

For everyone who will never make it there, here’s one about the bell mason jar & preserving things
July 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to the first Objects in Motion workshop last night.

We discussed Bradbury’s desk, how objects come with pre-packaged figurative language, practiced our ability to describe, and started a story.

The next workshop happens 5/13! (Register below)
April 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
April has been kind in some ways.

It was a pleasure to give 3 sessions of Speak, Poet for the 2025 Challenge to Change conference (multiple local highschools) & hear Hy-Deia Elwadi give the keynote speech

The day before, a stellar YA-led Fiction Meet Up at @justbuffalolit.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Learn the two things you need to turn a blank page into the start of a story.

Limited spots
Free to attend
Sponsored by Cultrue
in coordination with @eatoffart.bsky.social
& @varietypack.bsky.social

Register Here: cultruelife.org/event/object...
April 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
For those in Buffalo:

Catch me on the fourth floor of Trimainia this Saturday.
March 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Next Wednesday in Buffalo.

Bring your poems.
February 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It’s poetry night in Buffalo

Bring your poems

Special guest: Josh H.
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A winter dream in Buffalo
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
As January draws to a close, check out the current issue of @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

ghostcitypress.com/january-2025-1
January 31, 2025 at 3:48 AM
sometimes everything is beautiful
January 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A story in four parts
January 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM