Eric Bennett

Fiction Writer

Hillsdale, NJ
New Jersey US

Author's Bio

Eric Bennett lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children. He loves trees without leaves, the silence between songs on a vinyl record, fierce wounded things, and beginning sentences with the word “and.”

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011 Anthology (Dogzplot, 2011)
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Back in 5 Minutes (Little Episodes Publishing, 2010)
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The Best of Foliate Oak Online (The University of Arkansas, 2010)
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Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2009 Anthology (Dogzplot, 2009)
Journals:
50 to 1
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751 Magazine
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apt: an online literary journal
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Bartleby Snopes
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Bastards and Whores
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Bewildering Stories
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Cliterature
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Dogmatika
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Dogzplot
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Drunken Boat
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Fiction At Work
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Foliate Oak
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fourpaperletters
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Ghoti Magazine
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Gloom Cupboard
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ken*again
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Lit-N-Image
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Litterbox Magazine
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Long Story Short
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Metazen
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Pank
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Paradigm
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Poor Mojo's Almanac(k)
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Prick of the Spindle
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ragazine
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Short Story Library
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Short, Fast, and Deadly
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Slush Pile
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Smokebox
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Spilt Milk
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Splash of Red
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Stirring
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The Battered Suitcase
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The Legendary
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The Other Herald
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The Smoking Poet
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why vandalism?
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Writer's Bloc
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WTF PWM
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Yellow Mama
Prizes won: 

Arkansas College Media Award Winner (second Place), Editor’s Choice – Third Quarterly Review at Bewildering Stories, Pushcart Prize nomination by Foliate Oak, Story of the month twice in 2009 at Bartleby Snopes, The Other Herald writing competition (second and fifth place).

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Pale Flame by Vladimir Nabokov, The Faster I Walk The Smaller I am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold, Poems by Anne Michaels

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Tucson
Raised in: 
Toccoa, GA
Georgia
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Last update: Jul 24, 2012