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.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mlibbkag6s2tI’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…10 May 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlibbkag6s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3ml4auaydmc2hToday’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….05 May 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4auaydmc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mjyhq5pyx22lhttps://bookshop.org/lists/50-books-for-earth-day-literary-and-climate-fiction?page=221 Apr 2026 07:32 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyhq5pyx22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mivsdind422cWhen the ‘omnilingual’ Anthony Burgess met Jorge Luis Borges, they apparently ‘chatted in Anglo-Saxon’! From ‘Visiting Mrs Nabokov’ by Martin Amis07 Apr 2026 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivsdind422chttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mibob2vlds2yhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/six-books-that-15001484130 Mar 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibob2vlds2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mi2hrxf2r22oThis 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….27 Mar 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2hrxf2r22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mgciqji2qc2dIt 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!05 Mar 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgciqji2qc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3mdpftvgiqk2hExcited to have a story in the new issue of @the4facedliar.bsky.social Thanks to Roisin and everyone at the magazine! [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jan 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdpftvgiqk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3m7rp47ohek2sMany thanks to @charlieratpig.bsky.social for these words….. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Dec 2025 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rp47ohek2shttps://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3m6wuo7noyk23Salvador Dali, ‘Portrait of Luis Bunuel’ (1924), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid01 Dec 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wuo7noyk23https://bsky.app/profile/bentufnell.bsky.social/post/3m4hzvgwl322yhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIYj8ueEg2c31 Oct 2025 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:zeepftx42wucqgo3ymftcbwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4hzvgwl322y