Ben Tufnell

“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” losangelesreview.org/sand-by-ben-tu… #LARfiction

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

@Confingo @bentufnell @nicholasroyle Have you a sister Emma , born 1963 ish ? A sincere enquiry, would like to be in touch, Ginny

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… saltpublishing.com/products/best-…

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

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

“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

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

The Irish Terrier is well camouflaged in autumn….

@CharlieRatpig Pretty good company to be in! Congrats.

eyeballs slowly desiccating from staring at this TOC

Thank you for all the wonderful stories @nightjarpress

@C_CRRLL Sally who?

Insisting emphatically to my Irish writer bf that I've never heard of Sally Rooney.

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

Please, PLEASE pre-order my nineties, folksy, feline gothic novel The Cat Bride! Described as ‘as lushly hallucinatory as it is fierce’, by lushly hallucinatory @paulGtremblay Available from the usual places!

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: johnsonandalcock.co.uk/page-one

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

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! 🙏

@creaturelit @NewLeafLiterary @jord4nhill Great cover!

🍄COVER REVEAL for ROOT ROT, Saskia Nislow’s debut novella!🍄 Many thanks to Luísa Dias for this unsettling cover and to Saskia for this creepy novella! And thank you to the team @newleafliterary and agent @jord4nhill! Publishing 3.25.25 Preorders are open on our website!

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.👇

@RobertJStone2 Hi Robert, you might find this essay about the portraits interesting. Cheers, Ben bentufnell.com/the-walls-of-t…

There’s an exhibition of Cedric Morris paintings at Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury. The flower pictures might be the best but he painted portraits of such interesting people as the novelist and story writer Angus Wilson and a very young Lucien Freud.

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