BRIAN ALAN ELLIS
BIO
BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press and Vlad Mag, and has authored several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and Hobbies You Enjoy.
His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Fanzine, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Forever Magazine, X-R-A-Y, Heavy Feather Review, and Yes Poetry, among many other places.
He also hosted CURRENTS, an interview series at Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and is involved with FEST Wrestling.
Be sure to check out his Neutral Spaces blog.
He lives in Florida.
SELECTED BOOKS
- The Errors Tour: Collected Poems (2019-2024) [House of Vlad, 2025]
- Hobbies You Enjoy: A Novelty [House of Vlad, 2024]
- Seven Years Bad Luck: Selected Stories and Poems (2013-2020) [House of Vlad, 2022]
- Something to Do with Self-Hate: A Novel [Talking Book, 2017]
Selected Fiction
- NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month), or, The Part of the Novel [Hobart] / [Micro]
- Saturday Night’s Main Event [Forever Mag]
- Mr. Scary [Talking Book]
- Recently Added in Shit You Watched on Mom’s Cable When You Were Depressed While ‘Between Jobs’ and Living at Home in Your Early-to-Mid Twenties [BULL]
- The ALF Period [Carte Blanche]
- It Felt Like Love [Third Point Press]
- Demented Racist Grandma [JMWW]
- What I Know about Clem [Juked]
- Rape Distance [Literary Orphans]
- A Real Boyfriend [People Holding]
- Aunt Jackie, Tony [Hypertext]
- Certain Celebration, Jerry’s TV [Vol. 1 Brooklyn]
- Delia Done Wrong [Spry]
- The Problem with Helen [Gravel]
- Facts about Freud [Monkeybicycle]
- The Sailboat/Hatchet Painting [Conte]
Selected poetry
selected non-fiction
- The Best of Chris Farley [Fanzine]
- Love in the Time of Text, Don’t Callera: The Lost Sad Laughter Chapter [BULL]
- Loose Change: Sexual Fantasy about Being Repeatedly Hit in the Head by Fastballs Until I Concuss and Die by Brian Alan Ellis & Jon-Michael Frank [Fear No Lit]
- Top 10 Books You May or May Not Hope to One Day Publish [Talking Book]
- No Book Blurb, No Cry: An Inspirational/Crazy Informative Guide to Proper Book Blurbag [X-R-A-Y]
- I Self-Identify as These Books from 2016 (and Some from 2015) [The Collapsar]
- Marry Bell, Fuck Biv, Kill Devoe [Queen Mob’s Tea House]
- Book Review: Bridget Fonda by Elizabeth Ellen [The Collapsar]
- Academic Think-Piece about How Our Culture Went From Art Garbage (Last Tango in Paris) To Pop Garbage (Fifty Shades of Grey) But Written By Honey Boo Boo [Talking Book]
- Academic Think-Piece about the Dumpster behind Where I Work [Talking Book]
- Shoes of a Writer: Brian Alan Ellis [Shoes of a Writer]
- Letter to Our Drunk-Ass Neighbor [The Driftless Area Review]
- Grimestore Cowboy [Hobart]
- Hobbies Include… [Talking Book]
- Today I Am This Boring Apocalypse Posing For Hustler: Notes on New Books by xTx, Brandi Wells, and Andrea Kneeland [Revolution John]
- Book Review: Bipolar Cowboy by Noah Cicero [Heavy Feather Review]
- Book Review: Tollbooth by Bud Smith [Sundog Lit]
- Book Review: Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan [HTMLGIANT]
- The Indie Ink Runs Deep: Brian Alan Ellis [The Next Best Book Blog]
- Book Review: The Laughter of Strangers by Michael J. Seidlinger [Sundog Lit]
selected interviews
- The Rumpus
- Selected Prose
- Literary Hub
- The Counterforce
- Not Worth Living
- Textual Healing
- Friendless Pod
- Another Fucking Writing Podcast
- X-R-A-Y
- Heathenish Radio
- Vol.1 Brooklyn
- Savage Thrills
- Triangle House
- Zero Point Fiction
- BULL
- Get Lit with Leza
- Meow Meow Pow Pow
- Microcosmo
- Rare Bird Lit
- Only Human
- Talking Book
- Queen Mob’s Tea House
- Dead End Follies
- Hobart
- The Other Stories
Music
- Baby Dracula, Casket Life (2005) [Bandcamp]
- Kite Flying Society, A Discography (2006) [Bandcamp]
- The Ex-Boogeymen, The Ex-Boogeymen (2009) [Bandcamp]
- The Ex-Boogeymen, Masters of Ceremony (2010) [Spotify | Bandcamp]
- The Ex-Boogeymen, “Dave Vanian” (2012) [Spotify | Bandcamp]
- The Ex-Boogeymen/Waylon Thornton and the Heavy Hands, Only Darkness Holds the Power (2013) [Spotify | Bandcamp]
- Night Mayor, “I Can’t Tell” (2025) [Bandcamp | Spotify]
FILM
- Cinemadrome: RADAPTATIONS 2 Film Fest 2023 – “The ABC Murders” (1More Films)
- Cinemadrome: RADAPTATIONS Film Fest 2022 – “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (1More Films)
- Cinemadrome: SWEDED Film Fest 2022 – “Stand By Me” (1More Films)
- Cinemadrome: SWEDED Film Fest 2021 - “Big Trouble in Little China” (1More Films)
- Cinemadrome: SWEDED Film Fest 2020 - “Shawshank Redemption” (1More Films)
upcoming events
AWP 2026 in Baltimore, Maryland!
Team HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS will be storming the gates of AWP Baltimore with SWEET TRASH PRESS and BE ABOUT IT PRESS to host an exclusive off-site house party on Friday, March 6 at 7pm featuring JILLIAN LUFT, ALEXANDRA NAUGHTON, CAROLYN DECARLO, SHY WATSON, LUKE GOEBEL, AMY SAUL-ZERBY, ALICE M., CARSON JORDAN, and TANGELO MANTIS! E-mail jillian.luft@gmail.com for details!
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STORYFORT at TREEFORT MUSIC FEST in Boise, Idaho! March 26-29, 2026!
BRIAN ALAN ELLIS will be one of the readers/panelists at Storyfort this year, taking place March 26 - March 29 in Boise, Idaho, along with SAM LIPSYTE, KIMBERLY KING PARSONS, HENRY HOKE, ANIKA JADE LEVY, JUSTIN TAYLOR, ZAC SMITH, KEVIN SAMPSELL, MD WHEATLEY, KATIE HALEY, SAM BERMAN, BRITTANY MENJIVAR and many others! Visit treetortmusicfest.com for details!