Ben Tufnell
@bentufnell.bsky.social
Writer. Curator. Owl. Art stuff mostly over on Instagram. Stories in BBSS2024, Conjunctions, Interzone, Los Angeles Review etc. Novels: THE NORTH SHORE (Fleet, 2023), PARADISE (Influx Press, 2026). www.bentufnell.com www.knappedflint.com
On my blog today, my review of the excellently creepy gangster hideout novel Paradise by @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social @annerandomthings.bsky.social blog tour annabookbel.net/paradise-by-...
Paradise by Ben Tufnell – blog tour
Source: Review copy from the publisher, Influx Press for the Random Things blog tour – thank you. As thrillers go, I’m very fond of gangland novels, and within that crime thriller sub-g…
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I’m being inundated by scammers pushing fake reading clubs, authir promos, amazon optimisation schemes etc etc. It’s tiresome. But I just got one from ‘Isaiah Archibong’, who sounds like a character from a Thomas Pynchon story, which made me smile…
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Dear story readers and writers, if you don’t know about this wonderful project, check it out!
Jonathan Gibbs@jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Personal Anthology always takes the summer off... but this year has been quiet all round. It will be starting up again in September, and I'm keen to round up potential contributors. Get in touch if you're a fan of short stories and would like to share your favourites! apersonalanthology.com
Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from @elfodongo.bsky.social @pcevans.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @katefeld.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @bentufnell.bsky.social & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...
The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd
Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...
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My story ‘Unhomely’ is included in the new issue of Interzone, alongside some brilliant writers. A funny one this (funny peculiar, not funny ha ha). I took an aside by Freud in his essay ‘Das Unheimliche’, in which he describes reading a ‘thoroughly silly story’ in the Strand Magazine, as a prompt….
#OwlishMonday The dust jacket of Woodland Birds by Phyllis Barclay-Smith (King Penguin 1955) Art by Peter Shepheard.
On 4 June I’ll be at The BookHive in Norwich, chatting to @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social about ‘Paradise’ and ‘Dead The Long Year’. I imagine a conversation about landscape, thresholds, Modernism, art, magic and much more. Come join us! It’s free - reserve your place at www.thebookhive.co.uk/evebnts/
I’m heading west this week, for studio visits, meetings, an exhibition opening AND a book event at The Bookshop in Helston. Looking forward to talking about my weird tomes, The North Shore and Paradise. Come and say hello! Reserve your space at www.ticketsource.co.uk
I’m heading up to King’s Lynn…. If you love Norfolk’s wild coastline and fiction that gets under your skin, this is for you. An evening with Ben Tufnell, exploring his two extraordinary novels: The North Shore, a gothic, unsettling tale rooted in the Norfolk coast, and new eco-thriller, Paradise…
Today’s book post. New stories by @andrewhook.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social and Aliya Whiteley. These are from a very handsome new series of single-story chapbooks called ‘ Infidelities‘, from the excellent @salopress.bsky.social….
When the ‘omnilingual’ Anthony Burgess met Jorge Luis Borges, they apparently ‘chatted in Anglo-Saxon’! From ‘Visiting Mrs Nabokov’ by Martin Amis
New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.
This is a great initiative by @uncertainstories.com - a series of beautiful little chapbooks each containing a single short story, given away for free in independent bookshops. I picked up this spooky tale by the great @daveyfrankel.bsky.social in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh….
Any writers currently feeling less than productive can thank themselves they're not in the shoes of pulp author Alfred J Burks, who at his peak in the 1930s set himself a target to write 18,000 words a day. A day.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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It is here! Huge thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social @dan.coxon.belly.social @charlotteseymour.bsky.social, Luke Bird and Vince Haig, and profound gratitude to the blurbers: @aetwigg.bsky.social @charlieratpig.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, James Miller and Aliya Whiteley In bookshops now!
I was just wondering what to read next when this popped through the door. Will read straightaway! @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth
