Ben Daggers
@bendaggerswrites.bsky.social
escape room designer | writer | close-up magician | vegan
www.studioescape.jp
Published in PRISM International, Crepuscular, Literary Veganism, Black Hare Press, Elegant Lit...
5-time NYCM Finalist
🥇 WB 2025 Microfiction
🥈NYCM 2023 Flash
🥈WB 2024
www.studioescape.jp
Published in PRISM International, Crepuscular, Literary Veganism, Black Hare Press, Elegant Lit...
5-time NYCM Finalist
🥇 WB 2025 Microfiction
🥈NYCM 2023 Flash
🥈WB 2024
Happy to have made it to the NYCM 500 finals :)
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Happy to have made it to the NYCM 500 finals :)
Very happy that all four of my escape rooms were nominated for the TERPECA global escape room of the year award!
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Very happy that all four of my escape rooms were nominated for the TERPECA global escape room of the year award!
Time to torture my brain with more rhymes this weekend!
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Time to torture my brain with more rhymes this weekend!
Here's an interview about my Writing Battle nanofiction winner "It Takes a Village"
writingbattle.com/past-winners...
writingbattle.com/past-winners...
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Here's an interview about my Writing Battle nanofiction winner "It Takes a Village"
writingbattle.com/past-winners...
writingbattle.com/past-winners...
Just received a nice surprise in the post today — a physical copy of the beautiful inScribe journal where a reprint of my short story Night Shift appears!
September 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Just received a nice surprise in the post today — a physical copy of the beautiful inScribe journal where a reprint of my short story Night Shift appears!
My story "It Takes a Village" won the 2025 microfiction Writing Battle!
September 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My story "It Takes a Village" won the 2025 microfiction Writing Battle!
Two magic shows today at the beautiful Chidori Bunka event space
August 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Two magic shows today at the beautiful Chidori Bunka event space
@skyislandjournal.bsky.social really are the best. They sent this postcard (a real, honest-to-god paper postcard!) all the way to Osaka to inform me of my publication date.
Here's the story in question if you haven't read it:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
Here's the story in question if you haven't read it:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
August 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@skyislandjournal.bsky.social really are the best. They sent this postcard (a real, honest-to-god paper postcard!) all the way to Osaka to inform me of my publication date.
Here's the story in question if you haven't read it:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
Here's the story in question if you haven't read it:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
You can read my story "I, Shinigami" from tomorrow in Sky Island Journal! (If you happen to be reading this tomorrow, then you can read it today. And if you're reading this the day after tomorrow then you could have already read it yesterday. What took you so long?)
www.skyislandjournal.com
www.skyislandjournal.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
You can read my story "I, Shinigami" from tomorrow in Sky Island Journal! (If you happen to be reading this tomorrow, then you can read it today. And if you're reading this the day after tomorrow then you could have already read it yesterday. What took you so long?)
www.skyislandjournal.com
www.skyislandjournal.com
The left wing cafe that's become a coffee-based insane asylum
Nothing good comes from sitting down and enjoying a nice oatmilk flat white in peace. Humans need some screeching lunatic barging in and headbutting them while they're mid-sip.
Nothing good comes from sitting down and enjoying a nice oatmilk flat white in peace. Humans need some screeching lunatic barging in and headbutting them while they're mid-sip.
July 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The left wing cafe that's become a coffee-based insane asylum
Nothing good comes from sitting down and enjoying a nice oatmilk flat white in peace. Humans need some screeching lunatic barging in and headbutting them while they're mid-sip.
Nothing good comes from sitting down and enjoying a nice oatmilk flat white in peace. Humans need some screeching lunatic barging in and headbutting them while they're mid-sip.
I'm very happy to announce that one of my short stories is scheduled to appear in Intrepidus Ink. More details soon!
intrepidusink.com
intrepidusink.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm very happy to announce that one of my short stories is scheduled to appear in Intrepidus Ink. More details soon!
intrepidusink.com
intrepidusink.com
Better late than never!
June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Better late than never!
Happy to report that after upping my bribes to the NQW team I've finally made the longlist!
Fingers will be crossed (and fingernails will be bitten) until the final reveal!
Fingers will be crossed (and fingernails will be bitten) until the final reveal!
May 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Happy to report that after upping my bribes to the NQW team I've finally made the longlist!
Fingers will be crossed (and fingernails will be bitten) until the final reveal!
Fingers will be crossed (and fingernails will be bitten) until the final reveal!
Here's what I was getting up to on Monday...
April 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Here's what I was getting up to on Monday...
If anyone happens to be in the area...
March 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If anyone happens to be in the area...
My story “Night Shift” snuck into the finals for Writing Battle. Fingers and toes are currently being crossed!
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March 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My story “Night Shift” snuck into the finals for Writing Battle. Fingers and toes are currently being crossed!
firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/writing...
firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/writing...
Thrilled to have taken 4th place out of 1700+ writers in this year's NYCM Rhyming Story comp!
February 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Thrilled to have taken 4th place out of 1700+ writers in this year's NYCM Rhyming Story comp!
Do tentacled aliens/microwave ovens/jars of mustard etc count as "consenting adults"? Or is only human on human action allowed?
February 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Do tentacled aliens/microwave ovens/jars of mustard etc count as "consenting adults"? Or is only human on human action allowed?
Here's an unpublished hermit crab story I wrote a while back called "La Brasserie Bienveillante"
February 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Here's an unpublished hermit crab story I wrote a while back called "La Brasserie Bienveillante"
Two global escape room awards in two days!
Of my rooms snuck onto the TERPECA list of the top 100 escape rooms worldwide, and another won the Best of Morty 2024 award!
Of my rooms snuck onto the TERPECA list of the top 100 escape rooms worldwide, and another won the Best of Morty 2024 award!
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Two global escape room awards in two days!
Of my rooms snuck onto the TERPECA list of the top 100 escape rooms worldwide, and another won the Best of Morty 2024 award!
Of my rooms snuck onto the TERPECA list of the top 100 escape rooms worldwide, and another won the Best of Morty 2024 award!