Ben Tufnell

Writer. Curator. Cosmic dancer. Art life on insta, literary stuff here. @ce_seymour is my agent and THE NORTH SHORE is published by @FleetReads

[Los Angeles Review @LAReview]

“huddles of bodies in sleeping bags. Piles of beer cans and plastic bottles, crisp packets, cigarette butts. We had made a terrible mess of that beautiful place.”

Ben Tufnell from “Sand”
https://t.co/PU8aXpYUzR

#LARfiction

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@VirginiaAllkin2 @Confingo @nicholasroyle I'm afraid not. I'm an only child. Hope you find her.....

[Cōnfingō Publishing @Confingo]

Confingo author Sonya Moor (The Comet & Other Stories) features in the Best British Short Stories 2024 anthology edited by fellow Confingo author @nicholasroyle and out now with @saltpublishing – order your copy in time for Christmas here… https://t.co/OMFdTSf2ui

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Spotted at @Foyles on Charing Cross Road. Always good to see one out in the wild….

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Today’s post. Honoured to be in such esteemed company! Huge thanks to @nicholasroyle and @saltpublishing

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

— Franz Kafka

[Ben Tufnell @bentufnell]

The pb of my strange little book has been out for 6 months!

‘That rare beast, a work of folk horror that holds its own with the classics...’ Nina Allan, author of The Dollmaker

‘Folk horror at its most intelligent and beautiful.’ Dawn Keetley, Horror Homeroom

@FleetReads

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The Irish Terrier is well camouflaged in autumn….

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@CharlieRatpig Pretty good company to be in! Congrats.

[meganjstaylor @meganjstaylor]

Thank you for all the wonderful stories @nightjarpress

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@C_CRRLL Sally who?

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@CharlieRatpig @paulGtremblay 'Lushly hallucinatory'! Sounds, and looks, great, congrats!

[Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency @JohnsonAlcock]

Applications are now once again open for Page One, our annual online mentoring scheme.

Seeking candidates from backgrounds which are currently underrepresented in publishing, we want to demystify the industry and give your career a kickstart:

https://t.co/N7kkttKo9y

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On 26 Sept WORDTheatre will celebrate Salt’s ‘Best British Short Stories’ series. Five stories from the series will be read/performed by actors. My story, ‘An Invocation’, is in BBSS2024 and will be read by Christopher Ecclestone. Oof! Can’t wait….

@wordtheatre @saltpublishing

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Dear friends, if you’ve read The North Shore, please consider rating (or even reviewing) it on Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, Waterstones or wherever you go for bookish matters. It really helps spread the word. If you didn’t like it, just keep that to yourself, ok? Thanks! 🙏

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@creaturelit @NewLeafLiterary @jord4nhill Great cover!

[José María Del Pino @josemdelpino]

I asked Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's top advisors, what is the evidence for saying that Caracas and Venezuela are safer than the United States. He began by answering that it is the government's numbers. I asked him if he trusted Maduro's numbers. And this was his reaction.👇

[Ben Tufnell @bentufnell]

@RobertJStone2 Hi Robert, you might find this essay about the portraits interesting. Cheers, Ben
https://t.co/vF9ZA5PS6e

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Excited for my first bookish festival thing. I’ll be at Folk East in Suffolk with Halesworth Bookshop on Fri 16 Aug to talk about (and hopefully sign and stamp copies of) The North Shore, my folk-horror adjacent meditation on transformation…..
@folkeast @abbieyvette @FleetReads