BRIAN ALAN ELLIS

BIO

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press and Vlad Mag, and is the author of several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and Hobbies You Enjoy (PRE-ORDER NOW).

His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Fanzine, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Forever Mag, 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 was involved with FEST Wrestling.

Be sure to check out his Neutral Spaces blog.

He lives in Florida.

BOOKS

Hobbies You Enjoy: A Novelty [House of Vlad, 2024]
Seven Years Bad Luck: Selected Stories and Poems (2013-2020) [House of Vlad, 2022]
Three More Books: Something to Do with Sadness, Laughter, Pie & Failure (+ Self-Hate) (2017-2018) [House of Vlad, 2021]
Bad Poet: Poems [House of Vlad, 2020]
Something Sexy, Something Stupid: The Next Three Books (2015-2016) [House of Vlad, 2019]
Road Warrior Hawk: Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture [House of Vlad, 2019]
Sad Laughter: A Totally Unessential and Demotivational Guide to Reading, Writing, and Publishing [Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018]
Something to Do with Self-Hate: A Novel [Talking Book, 2017]
A Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week: The First Three Books (2013-2014) [House of Vlad, 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

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]