Ryan Werner (Is Published)
Arranged from oldest to newest within their respective sections.
And hopefully getting better.
Arranged from oldest to newest within their respective sections.
And hopefully getting better.
Short stories (stories over 1000 words):
"The Weight" in The Benefactor (Print Only)
"Sometimes We Were Young" in Shaking Intensified: The Best Prose of Shaking Like a Mountain 2007-2010 (Print Only)
"Murmuration" at Jersey Devil Press
"Trace" at 10,000 Tons of Black Ink
"Pyramid Scheme" at Bartleby Snopes (also in Bartleby Snopes Issue 10)
"A Comprehensive List of the Least Worst Way To Do Everything" at Necessary Fiction
"There Is No Joy Between the Last Thing and the Next Thing" at Jersey Devil Press
"Shoot Out the Bright Lights" in Indiana Review (Print Only)
"Lifeguard" at Jersey Devil Press
"Go Says No" at BULL: Men's Fiction
"Mexico" at Sante Fe Literary Review (Print Only)
Flash fiction (stories under 1000 words):
"Passenger Side" in Echo Ink Review (Print Only)
"Sketches" at Flashquake
"English Degree" at Jersey Devil Press (also in The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology)
"Vandalism" at Curbside Splendor (also in Curbside Splendor Issue 1)
"Carbon" at Jersey Devil Press for their Brilliant Disguise project
"Always Say the Person's Name" at The Legendary
"Look At How Fast I Can Go Nowhere At All" at Amphibi.us
"This Illusion" at Prime Number Magazine
"Layers" at Fiction At Work
"Line" at Unshod Quills
"On the Beach" at Blue Lotus Review
"Wide Right Game" at Jersey Devil Press
"Jalapeno Summer" at Smokelong Quarterly (with interview)
"Western v. Eastern" at Juked
"--:--" in Fractured West Issue 4 (Print Only)
"The Ultimate Warrior, Sitting in His Kitchen in the Middle of the Night, Practicing Applying His Face-Paint in Anticipation of a Return that Will Never Happen" at Sundog Lit
"Reruns" at Monkeybicycle
"Monsters: A Series of Non-Chronological Vignettes" at Jersey Devil Press
"Back and to the Left" at Jersey Devil Press
"Atavism" at Cease, Cows (Honorable Mention in the Cease, Cows 2013 Fiction Contest)
"My Friend Wallace Eating a Candy Apple at the End of the World" at DOGZPLOT
"Banzai Skydiving" at Connotation Press
"If There's Any Truth In a Northbound Train" at Smokelong Quarterly (with interview)
"Dead by the Time I Get to Now" at 90's Meg Ryan (audio available)
"A Story from the Other Day" in The Cuil Issue #1 (Print Only)
"Model Home" at WhiskeyPaper
Essays:
“Everything Will Kill Me” in Midscape: Natural Multimedia Selections (Print Only)
"Let's Spend the Night Together" at Unshod Quills
"I Want the Girl, Too" at The Faster Times
"Albums of Our Lives: Neko Case's Middle Cyclone" at The Rumpus
"How to Make -$1377 the Hard Way" at Passages North
"Maybe Don't Drown Everything You've Ever Wanted In a Mop Bucket That Isn't Yours" at Midway Journal
Poetry:
"A Ghost For Every Season" "Kissing Sam When I Shouldn't" and "And Flailing Up So High" at Breadcrumb Scabs
"Whiskey & Wordsworth" in Nibble Issue 15 (Print Only)
"And of All the Boys, Your Best Bet Was Me" at Lindenwood Review Blog
"Hammer Down" and "This Is What Happens When You're Single Too Long and a Pretty Girl Named Joan Smiles At You" at Unshod Quills
"Oh Lie, I Thought You Were Golden" at Unshod Quills
Book reviews:
Chloe Caldwell's collection of personal essays Legs Get Led Astray at [PANK]
J.A Tyler's book Variations of a Brother War at [PANK]
Sara Levine's short story collection Short Dark Oracles at [PANK]
Steven Gillis's short story collection The Law of Strings and Other Stories at Heavy Feather Review
Roy Kesey's short story collection Any Deadly Thing at Heavy Feather Review
Adam Marek's short story collection The Stone Thrower at Heavy Feather Review
Ken Nash's short story collection The Brain Harvest at Necessary Fiction
Dena Rash Guzman's poetry collection Life Cycle at The Rumpus
Miles Klee's short story collection True False at Heavy Feather Review
Troy James Weaver's short memoir collection Witchita Stories at [PANK]
Matt Bell's nonfiction RPG memoir Baldur's Gate II at Heavy Feather Review
Katie Schmid's poetry collection forget me / hit me / let me drink great quantities of clear, evil liquor at The Rumpus
J. Roselló's comic The Well-Dressed Bear Will (Never) Be Found at Heavy Feather Review
Bud Smith's novella I'm From Electric Peak at Entropy
Dan Mancilla's novella The Deathmask of El Gaucho at Heavy Feather Review
Troy James Weaver's novella Marigold at Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Tatiana Ryckman's short memoir collection VHS and Why It's Hard to Live at Heavy Feather Review
Chloe Caldwell's collection of personal essays I'll Tell You In Person at The Rumpus (forthcoming)
David Atkinson's novella Apocalpyse All the Time at The Writing Disorder (forthcoming)
Gary Lutz's short story chapbook Assisted Living at Electric Literature (forthcoming)
Justin Phillip Reed's poetry chapbook A History of Flamboyance (forthcoming)
Scott McClanahan and Ricardo Cavolo's graphic biography The Incantations of Daniel Johnston (forthcoming)
Matthew Burnside's short story collection Postludes (forthcoming)
Miscellaneous/Interviews:
First Line ("We'd been following the mountain lions for years . . .") at 50-to-1
Interview with Ryan Werner at University of Wisconsin-Platteville Creative Writing Department
Ten Questions with Ryan Werner at Paragraph Line
Every Song Is a Victory Song: An Interview with Ryan Werner (by TC Porter) at Sundog Lit Blog
Interview with Ryan Werner (as conducted by Matthew Burnside) at BOAAT Press
Our Chapbook Could Be Your Life: An Interview With Ryan Werner (by Will Crain) at Corrective Lenses
Five Questions With Ryan Werner at Smile Politely
GENERIC BIO! (WHO GIVES A SHIT?):
Ryan Werner is the author of the short short story collection Shake Away These Constant Days (Jersey Devil Press, 2012), the story cycle Murmuration, the tiny little fiction chapbook If There's Any Truth In a Northbound Train, and the shattered novella/rock & roll morality play Soft. Of his work, Mary Miller (author of Big World and The Last Days of California) said, "Ryan writes with authority, skill, and passion, not only about the Midwest, but about youth and what it means to be young." Thomas Cooper (author of Phantasmagoria and Barataria) has praised Werner as "an important new voice: quirky, world-wise, and as joyfully rambunctious as your favorite punk rock song." His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Smokelong Quarterly, [PANK], BULL: Men's Fiction, Juked, and many other places of varying notoriety and popularity. He bought a $100 printer and now runs Passenger Side Books from his humid apartment.