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Bradley David’s poetry, fiction, essays, and genre-blending works appear in HAD, Terrain.org, Denver Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review and numerous other publications. Pieces have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net anthologies. He earned his bachelor’s in English, master's in social work, and is interested in the intersection of creative expression, sense of place & purpose, embodied trauma, and mental state. Selected works at bradley-david.com; Instagram @bradley_david_w; Bluesky @bradley-david.com
Shouts…
I am strictly casual. I go by “Bradley" or “Brad” or “Bradley David.” I prefer not, however, “Mr" or “Sir” or “Dude” or “Bro” or “Man” or whichever masculine whatnots, because it all feels like sweaty oatmeal on a buttered window. My last name is Waters. The whole thing, then, is Bradley David Waters. But, really, Brad or Bradley will do.
Selected Works (writing, images, audio, video - since 2020)…
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Firewatchers: Backyard to a Burning Los Angeles, jmww journal, 2025, (essay)
Take A Lung Or Take A Lover, Denver Quarterly, v. 59.1, 2025 (poetry)
4 pieces, Exacting Clam, 2025 (forthcoming beyond-genre)
A Way of Saving, The Milk House, 2025 (essay)
3 Poems, Terrain.org, 2025 (forthcoming poetry plus audio)
510 Road, HAD, 2024 (poem)
Taking It, Minor Literature[s], 2024 (essay/photo excerpt)
2 Micro, Gooseberry Pie, 2024 (micro)
Putting Too Much Into Titles, miniMAG, 2024 (beyond-genre)
small talk, miniMAG, 2024 (poetry)
Paradise Paranoid, miniMAG, 2024 (poetry)
Let Them Have It, Landlocked Magazine, 2024, (creative nonfiction)
Trunk Tools and Pocket Pastilles, Landlocked Magazine, 2024 (creative nonfiction)
No Quarters -ette Review, 2024 (prose poem)
Seasons Change, If You Let Them, Gooseberry Pie, Issue 12, May 2024, (micro)
Mid-Century Modern, hex, 2024 (flash)
Sources Say, Los Angeles Review, 2024, (flash)
Photograph, Exacting Clam, Spring 2024, (photography)
3 Poems, Unlikely Stories Mark V, 2024 (poetry)
Aroma Therapy, the evermore review #2, 2024, (fiction)
Plenty, Excuse Me Mag #8, 2023, (photography, back cover)
Tracing Letters, JMWW, 2023 (poetry)
Scenes from a Grief Casino, Thirty West, 2023 (creative nonfiction)
Accumulations, JAKE, 2023 (fiction)
6 Poems, Exacting Clam, 2023 (poetry)
Some People Take The Edge Off, Identity Theory, 2023 (poetry) (Winner, 2022 2022-Word Poetry contest)
3 fictions, Always Crashing, 2023 (fiction/beyond-genre)
Some People Have Tell-All Shelves, Opt West, Issue Two, 2023
Dead City Driver, Simple Machines, No. 2: Epochal Shift, 2022
Girl With A Pearl Herring, Exacting Clam, 2022 (fiction)
Five Ways To Learn Fear, Terrain.org, 2022 (fiction)
Queerness, Madness, and Trauma: The Morphology of Narrative Through Lived Experience, Allium, 2022 (craft essay)
Approachable Pedestrian, Bureau of Complaint, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Norman Rockwell Steps On A Lego, Fatal Flaw, 2022 (beyond-genre) (Pushcart nominated)
Artists on Artists, Fatal Flaw, 2022 (interview)
Some People Are Always Accounting For Taste, Fruit Journal, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People Catch Cold, Unstamatic, 2022, (poetry)
Some People Gotta Get Outta Here, Unstamatic, 2022 (poetry, Best of the Net nominated)
Some People Watch The Drinking Bird Go Dry, Anti-Heroin Chic, 2022 (poetry)
Some People Search For A Door, Rougarou, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People Feel Unsettled By Spaces They Can’t Fill, Scrawl Place, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People On December 28, Scrawl Place, 2022 (Poetry)
Some People Are Casualties Of Season Songs, the museum of americana, 2022 (beyond-genre)
So Much Depends Upon A Rental Car Place (After William Carlos Williams), Mid-Level Management, 2022 (poetry/beyond-genre)
Just Another Night On Fire, Milk & Cake Press, 2022 (poetry, anthology)
photography (2), Olney Magazine’s Magical Midwest: an anthology, 2022 (photography)
photography, Welter, 2022 (photography)
photography, Welter, 2022 (photography)
Preparing For Our Past, Plainsongs, 2021 (poetry)
Noodles, Porridge, 2021 (poetry)
Letter Carrier, Stone of Madness, 2021 (poetry)
Tides of Isolation, Epoch Press, 2021 (nonfiction/blended-genre)
My Allies Underground, Seisma, 2020 (poetry)
Should I Go Back Out There?, Dispatches From The Poetry Wars/Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2020 (poetry, anthology)