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Many congratulations to @benjamin.pester, whose debut novel The Expansion Project has been shortlisted for the @goldsmithsprize!

The Expansion Project is on the Debut Fiction shortlist of the 2025 Nero Awards!

A huge congrats to @benjamin.pester!

#nerobookawards #theexpansionproject

The Expansion Project is on the Debut Fiction shortlist of the 2025 Nero Awards!

A huge congrats to @benjamin.pester!

#nerobookawards #theexpansionproject

Creative conversations from the first CCC ClubNite.

Next one: 30 April. 6.30-9.30pm. Bang Casting Studios. London.

EarlyBELL tickets available! LINK IN BIO.

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EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR SECOND EVENT IN THE SERIES- ‘SOME OF OUR SINS: GREED’.

The event will be at Torriano Meeting House from 7pm on Wednesday 04/03/26.

You can get ur tickets via the link in my bio- tickets include a drink!!

Can’t wait to see ya! 🍎

#londonevents #newevent #londonwriters #booklovers #literaryevent

EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR SECOND EVENT IN THE SERIES- ‘SOME OF OUR SINS: GREED’.

The event will be at Torriano Meeting House from 7pm on Wednesday 04/03/26.

You can get ur tickets via the link in my bio- tickets include a drink!!

Can’t wait to see ya! 🍎

#londonevents #newevent #londonwriters #booklovers #literaryevent

EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR SECOND EVENT IN THE SERIES- ‘SOME OF OUR SINS: GREED’.

The event will be at Torriano Meeting House from 7pm on Wednesday 04/03/26.

You can get ur tickets via the link in my bio- tickets include a drink!!

Can’t wait to see ya! 🍎

#londonevents #newevent #londonwriters #booklovers #literaryevent

EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR SECOND EVENT IN THE SERIES- ‘SOME OF OUR SINS: GREED’.

The event will be at Torriano Meeting House from 7pm on Wednesday 04/03/26.

You can get ur tickets via the link in my bio- tickets include a drink!!

Can’t wait to see ya! 🍎

#londonevents #newevent #londonwriters #booklovers #literaryevent

EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR SECOND EVENT IN THE SERIES- ‘SOME OF OUR SINS: GREED’.

The event will be at Torriano Meeting House from 7pm on Wednesday 04/03/26.

You can get ur tickets via the link in my bio- tickets include a drink!!

Can’t wait to see ya! 🍎

#londonevents #newevent #londonwriters #booklovers #literaryevent

Event! Event! To celebrate the launch of Magic & Mechanics, come and join the phenomenal duo of Claire-Louise Bennett and Ben Pester at the London Review Bookshop!
31st March 6.30pm for 7pm start!

Bit of news here! Thank you forever @grantabooks @taffyagent@jasonarthur03

Thank you so much to our special guest author @benjamin.pester for visiting us tonight 💕 Such a fascinating interview about writing, short fiction and his extraordinary debut novel #TheExpansionProject

Thank you everyone who came along, joined in the Big Interview and wrote with us.

See you for our next session on 23 Feb led by the fabulous Mary-Ann Ambrose @theemotionalpoet1971 💕

#writingcommunity #colchesterwritenight #colchester #colchestercreatives #shortfiction #novel #literaryfiction #benpester #essex #essexwriters #writersofinstagram #writersofig @grantabooks

Thank you so much to our special guest author @benjamin.pester for visiting us tonight 💕 Such a fascinating interview about writing, short fiction and his extraordinary debut novel #TheExpansionProject

Thank you everyone who came along, joined in the Big Interview and wrote with us.

See you for our next session on 23 Feb led by the fabulous Mary-Ann Ambrose @theemotionalpoet1971 💕

#writingcommunity #colchesterwritenight #colchester #colchestercreatives #shortfiction #novel #literaryfiction #benpester #essex #essexwriters #writersofinstagram #writersofig @grantabooks

Thank you so much to our special guest author @benjamin.pester for visiting us tonight 💕 Such a fascinating interview about writing, short fiction and his extraordinary debut novel #TheExpansionProject

Thank you everyone who came along, joined in the Big Interview and wrote with us.

See you for our next session on 23 Feb led by the fabulous Mary-Ann Ambrose @theemotionalpoet1971 💕

#writingcommunity #colchesterwritenight #colchester #colchestercreatives #shortfiction #novel #literaryfiction #benpester #essex #essexwriters #writersofinstagram #writersofig @grantabooks

Thank you so much to our special guest author @benjamin.pester for visiting us tonight 💕 Such a fascinating interview about writing, short fiction and his extraordinary debut novel #TheExpansionProject

Thank you everyone who came along, joined in the Big Interview and wrote with us.

See you for our next session on 23 Feb led by the fabulous Mary-Ann Ambrose @theemotionalpoet1971 💕

#writingcommunity #colchesterwritenight #colchester #colchestercreatives #shortfiction #novel #literaryfiction #benpester #essex #essexwriters #writersofinstagram #writersofig @grantabooks

Thank you so much to our special guest author @benjamin.pester for visiting us tonight 💕 Such a fascinating interview about writing, short fiction and his extraordinary debut novel #TheExpansionProject

Thank you everyone who came along, joined in the Big Interview and wrote with us.

See you for our next session on 23 Feb led by the fabulous Mary-Ann Ambrose @theemotionalpoet1971 💕

#writingcommunity #colchesterwritenight #colchester #colchestercreatives #shortfiction #novel #literaryfiction #benpester #essex #essexwriters #writersofinstagram #writersofig @grantabooks

🏗️ NEW | Nothing is quite what it seems... Join us for an evening with author Ben Pester to discuss his Goldsmiths Prize and Nero Award shortlisted debut novel, The Expansion Project, an unnerving, surreal, and impressively familiar yet uncanny meditation on the pressures, isolation, anxiety, and dislocation of the modern workplace.

Plans for the expansion of the Capmeadow Business Park are in full swing—its mission is to become the greatest business park in the region.

Tom Crowley, a mid-level employee, loses his daughter at ‘bring your daughter to work day’. He raises the alarm, and his colleagues rush to help him find her. Eventually, after no sign of her is found, it transpires she was never there. And yet, as time goes on, Tom still cannot reconcile that she is really at home.

Refusing to accept that she is safe, Tom continues to search for her in the maze of corridors and impossible multi-dimensional spaces that make up his place of work…

Years pass, and Tom remains at the company, convinced he is in the presence of his now adult daughter. But has he judged it correctly? And can anything go back to the way it was?

Ben will be in conversation with write @hannahhg25 about the literary influences behind The Expansion Project, how short and longer form fiction diverge and converge on the page, and why the surreal and absurd are essential to exploring the constraints of modern life, work, and literature.

To register for this FREE event, click the link in bio or visit the Fane website.

Join us for our Big Interview and first session of the year on Monday 26th January.

Author @benjamin.pester will be joining us to discuss writing short fiction and his surreal novel, #TheExpansionProject, shortlisted for both The Goldsmith’s Prize and the Nero Prize for Debut Fiction last year.

We’ll all be interviewing and then writing together as usual, you’re welcome to join us.

#benpester #writingcommunity #colchesterwritenight #satire #dystopia #work #humour #surreal #fiction #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writers #authorsofig #essexwriters #takingyourdaughtertoworkday #amiintherightplace

This month on The Allender Calendar, I’m chatting to the author @benjamin.pester about his debut novel The Expansion Project. Part corporate satire, part Lynchian dreamscape, The Expansion Project explores loss, parenthood, grief, and the ways in which identity and meaning are being distorted as technology takes over our lives. It’s also very funny!
We talked about balancing creativity with a day job, finding joy and humour in office work, and some key influences (including Gormenghast and The Unconsoled). Link in bio or wherever you get yer pods! #podcast #theexpansionproject

This month on The Allender Calendar, I’m chatting to the author @benjamin.pester about his debut novel The Expansion Project. Part corporate satire, part Lynchian dreamscape, The Expansion Project explores loss, parenthood, grief, and the ways in which identity and meaning are being distorted as technology takes over our lives. It’s also very funny!
We talked about balancing creativity with a day job, finding joy and humour in office work, and some key influences (including Gormenghast and The Unconsoled). Link in bio or wherever you get yer pods! #podcast #theexpansionproject

Join us tonight at the Hotel de Luge. Featuring new writing from @benjamin.pester and the voice of our newest narrator @meditatewitheve

Join us tonight at the Hotel de Luge. Featuring new writing from @benjamin.pester and the voice of our newest narrator @meditatewitheve

Join us tonight at the Hotel de Luge. Featuring new writing from @benjamin.pester and the voice of our newest narrator @meditatewitheve