Writer. Curator. Cosmic dancer. Art life on insta, literary stuff here. @ce_seymour is my agent and THE NORTH SHORE is published by @FleetReads
Joined April 2014
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Ben Tufnell retweeted
30 May 2025
“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”
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Ben Tufnell retweeted
25 Nov 2024
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/…
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16 Nov 2024
Spotted at @Foyles on Charing Cross Road. Always good to see one out in the wild….
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12 Nov 2024
Today’s post. Honoured to be in such esteemed company! Huge thanks to @nicholasroyle and @saltpublishing
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Ben Tufnell retweeted
9 Nov 2024
“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
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11 Nov 2024
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
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ALT The front cover of ‘The North Shore’ by Ben Tufnell
ALT The back cover of ‘The North Shore’ by Ben Tufnell
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Ben Tufnell retweeted
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:
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18 Sep 2024
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….
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18 Sep 2024
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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Ben Tufnell retweeted
11 Sep 2024
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.👇
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8 Aug 2024
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…..
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25 Jul 2024
Just finished. Highly recommended. Innovative forms, distinctive voice, odd impulses, unexpected results. Much of it set in a future that is both creepingly familiar and utterly strange. 💥
Congrats to @C_CRRLL @tomconagh and @scratch_books
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Ben Tufnell retweeted
23 Jul 2024
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This is a Swift. sometimes they can end up on the ground. This is where they need YOUR help!
Swifts arrive back to the UK from April/May to nest. 🪺 (A THREAD)
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24 Jul 2024
Dear book people, what are the best and/or most interesting novels and short stories set in and around the art world? Thinking modern and contemporary…..
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16 Jul 2024
Very happy and honoured to be included in such esteemed and distinguished company. Huge thanks to
@nicholasroyle and @saltpublishing and to The Fiction Desk for giving my strange tale its first home...
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12 Jul 2024
Heading for the beach and after a holiday read? May I suggest my wintery, Gothic, melancholy, storm-lashed book, variously described as 'weird, astonishing' and 'Folk horror at its most intelligent and beautiful.' It's the perfect holiday companion!
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'Borges’s mother would ask him, according to Barnstone, “Why not Greek, the tongue of a civilized people?” The answer was that Borges was fond of barbarians, outlaws and gauchos.'
Irina Dumitrescu (@irinibus) on literary realism, from ‘Beowulf’ to Borges
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