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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Wowsers! I’ve somehow found myself on the shortlist for the prestigious Dinesh Allirajah prize for short fiction. Fingers and toes crossed for the next week! @commapress.bsky.social

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Delighted to once again grace the pages of Sky Island Journal! Their attention to detail, love for what they do (postcards to all their contributors!!) and gorgeous design have rightly made them one of the leading lit mags in recent times. Read my flash horror “Tar” at: www.skyislandjournal.com

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I'm honored that one of my stories (can't announce which one yet) has been shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Prize!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

duotrope.com/interview/ed... A great interview with Not Quite Write's @akscotland.bsky.social where I even get a cheeky shoutout!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'm ecstatic that one of my favorite stories has found its forever home in one of my favorite magazines! When Electric Lit said they wanted to publish "The Person Who Lives Here Doesn't Live Here Anymore," I sent my confirmation so quick they probably still have bite marks on their hands!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I won! My escape room Shadow Zen was just awarded the prestigious Morty Award for 2025!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A nice start to the literary year: My story “Alette in Lane Six is a Self-Righteous Bitch” has just been published in @foofarawpress.bsky.social along with stunning artwork by @tonytranrpg.bsky.social Read it at foofaraw.press

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy to have made it to the NYCM 500 finals :)

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Very happy that all four of my escape rooms were nominated for the TERPECA global escape room of the year award!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Time to torture my brain with more rhymes this weekend!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Here's an interview about my Writing Battle nanofiction winner "It Takes a Village" writingbattle.com/past-winners...

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

My story "It Takes a Village" won the 2025 microfiction Writing Battle!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Two magic shows today at the beautiful Chidori Bunka event space

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

@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...

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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.

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm very happy to announce that one of my short stories is scheduled to appear in Intrepidus Ink. More details soon! intrepidusink.com

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Here's what I was getting up to on Monday...

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If anyone happens to be in the area...

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My story “Night Shift” snuck into the finals for Writing Battle. Fingers and toes are currently being crossed! firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/writing...

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Thrilled to have taken 4th place out of 1700+ writers in this year's NYCM Rhyming Story comp!

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do tentacled aliens/microwave ovens/jars of mustard etc count as "consenting adults"? Or is only human on human action allowed?

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here's an unpublished hermit crab story I wrote a while back called "La Brasserie Bienveillante"

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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!

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