Writing

Books

Gloria Patri: A Novel
Malarkey Books, August 2023

Screenplays

Man for the Job (screenplay by Chris Wallis and Austin Ross; based on the short story by Austin Ross) (2024)

fiction

"Lobsters"
Short Story Long, December 2024

"Weasel Words"
HAD, June 2024

"The Beach Leads All the Way to the Deep Sea"
Short Story, Long, August 2023

"The Six Moltings of Larry McElroy"
King Ludd's Rag No. 11, August 2022

Those Who Scream: A Novel Written by 30 Authors (contributor), Thirty West Publishing House, 2022

"For the Sake of Our Bodies"
Pontoon: Vol. 1, Malarkey Books, 2022

"After Victor Died"
Lost Balloon, March 2022

"Prophesy to the Breath"
Still: The Journal, November 2021 (novel excerpt)
* Nominated for The Best Small Fictions 2022 (Sonder Press)

"An Equal Amount of Blueberries in Each Muffin"
HAD, May 2021

"Never Handle Grounded Bats"
HAD, April 2021
* Featured on Literary Hub / Micro Podcast (June 2022)
* Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2022

"How to Host a Murderer"
Flash Fiction Magazine, April 2020

"The Hands Which Hang Down"
jmww, May 2019

"The Heart of Morality"
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, May 2019 (reprint)

"A Hungry Bear Does Not Dance"
originally published at Hobart, August 2018

"Our Lady of Sorrows"
Every Day Fiction, August 2018

"The Man for the Job"
Necessary Fiction, April 2017

"The Heart of Morality"
Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 10:2015
* Pushcart Prize nominee, 2016

"No One Knows the Goodness of a Monster"
The Sycomore: Same As It Ever Was, Winter 2015

"Old Man Coyote"
Black Heart Magazine, July 2015

"Durante Vita"
SNAFU Anthology, Objective Press, 2008

Essays & Journalism

"Publishing Your Novel Won't Save You"
Chicago Review of Books, August 30, 2023

"Tales of the Unexpected"
Washington Independent Review of Books, August 21, 2023

"From Both Sides Now"
Publishers Weekly, August 7, 2023

The Paranoid View (column originally published at Hobart)

"The Devil's Interval: Memory and The Conversation" (January 2022)
"Waiting for the Sun to Shine: The Past and Taxi Driver" (February 2022)
"Everything Matters: The Future and Prisoners" (March 2022)
"A Terrible Scream: Death and Blow Out" (April 2022)
"Keeper of the Hidden Sins: Miracles and Michael Clayton" (June 2022)

"Above the Pig and Below the Rabbit: An Interview with Dave Housley"
HAD, March 2022

"Unexpected Reflections on the Fragility of Life After Reading the IMDb Trivia for Ghostbusters II (1989)"
Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, March 2021

"ORIGINS: 'The Hands Which Hang Down'"
jmww, July 2019

"My Son's First Haircut"
originally published at Hobart, June 2019

interviews

"Conversations Between Friends: Aaron Burch and Austin Ross"
CRAFT Literary, August 2023

"A Short Interview with Austin Ross"
Short Story, Long, August 2023

"Austin Ross on Great Titles, Gross Bugs, and the Chaotic Energy of Submitting Work from Your Phone"
Literary Hub, June 2022

Podcasts