In addition to producing Midnight Library of Baseball, Ben Orlando is a fiction writer. Here are some of his awards and publications.

AWARDS

Winner, William Faulkner Literary Prize (2025)

First Prize, Fade In Awards (2022)

Shortlist, Able Muse Short Fiction Prize (2019)

Longlistee, Caledonia Novel Award for unpublished manuscript, Lost Journals of Sundown (2017)

Finalist, Killer Nashville Claymore Award (2017)

Runner-Up and Cornerstones Literary Consultancy Prize, Bath Novel Award(2017) for unpublished manuscript Lost Journals of Sundown

Longlistee, Bath Novel Award (2017) for unpublished manuscript Iraqnia

Finalist, NYC Midnight Screenplay Contest, (2016)

Finalist, Killer Nashville Claymore Award (2015)

Finalist, Glimmer Train Magazine Family Matters Contest, (2015)

Finalist, Chalberg & Sussman/CCC Novel Contest (2014)

Finalist, NYC Midnight Screenplay Contest (2014)

Finalist, Bartleby Snopes All-Dialogue Contest (2013)

Finalist, Harvey Klinger/Columbus Creative Cooperative Novel Contest (2013)

Finalist, Best Short Film, Shriekfest Film Festival (2012)

Finalist, New Millennium Fiction Prize (2012)

Finalist, Arts and Letters Creative Non-Fiction Prize (Spring 2008)

Publications

NOVELS

The Knuckleballer

Lost Journals of Sundown

SHORT STORIES

THIS IS HOW IT BEGINS

Fall 2022 Mystery Tribune

IF YOUR CAT GIVES YOU A LOOK BEFORE JUMPING

Spring 2020 The New Guard

HIS FIRST BANK

Fall 2018 Landfall: The Best New England Crime Stories

You're Not Alone

Spring 2018 Tusculum Review

SEARCHING FOR AMELIA EARHART

Fall 2017 Adelaide Literary Magazine

A Fair Trade

Winter 2017 Mystery Weekly Magazine

interest on a life saved

Fall 2013 Foliate Oak Literary Journal

no lips

Fall 2013 Bartleby Snopes

HOW TO REBUILD A WORLD IN 2,536 EASY STEPS

2012 Columbus: Past, Present and Future

the missing hours

2012 While You Were Out: Short Stories of Resurrection

it might have happened in niagra

Spring 2012 The Writing Disorder

mud

Spring 2010 Bellevue Literary Review

pancake foot

Fall 2008 American Drivel Review

PODCASTS

history repeating itself

Producer, director, writer, co-host, and composer

SCREENWRITING

THE JOG (2011)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Clara's closet

The sound that a unicorn makes

the door to other worlds

smelly feet memories

the galloping dog

the boy who ate a star

the polar bear that tried to get a job

the great INVISIBLE milton

the man who would not fall down

THE dinosaur in the backpack

The Weird Mailbox

howard's hole to china

Peggy Pole Vaulter

and more...

2008 Tippy Tales

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