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Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in north-west England. In 2004, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the MFA Creative Writing Programme at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he was also fiction editor of the... Read full bio

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My life in 8 words: "Always hoping to improve on the day before."
The Bellwether Revivals will be released on March 01, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. I'm not really one for motivational sound-bites, but I try my best to be a person who adds to the world more than he subtracts from it. Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Absent commas and/or apostrophes. Rudeness. And, for some reason I can't quite decipher: humans dressed as cats. Q. What are your most overused words or phrases? A. Rather, suddenly, essentially, basically - i.e. words that sound like titles of Phil Collins albums. Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. Cape Cod, MA. Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. Howard Roark Learn more about Benjamin Wood

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Online PR News, April 27, 2013
...Nigeria) 18. Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil (India) 19. Beneath the Darkening Sky, Majok Tulba (Australia) 20. The Bellwether Revivals, Benjamin Wood (United Kingdom) For more details, please contact Ratna Joshi at ratna.joshi@harpercollins-india.com,...
Nigeria Intel, April 13, 2013
...by E.E. Sule (Nigeria), Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba (Australia) and The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (UK). The Nation...
ProKerala.com, April 12, 2013
...by E.E. Sule (Nigeria)”, “Beneath the Darkening Sky” by Majok Tulba (Australia) and “The Bellwether Revivals” by Benjamin Wood (UK). The Indian books nominated for the prize are debut novels that explore the layered life of South Asia and the...
Trinidad Guardian, April 10, 2013
...Forty-one writers among the Commonwealth nations will get a chance to see their literary skills come to life as the Commonwealth Foundation, via a news release, has announced shortlists for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story...
Bookseller, April 9, 2013
...Donnell (Windmill), a tale of two sisters after the death of their parents, and The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (), a story set among Cambridge students, also make the shortlist. Indian novel Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil, published in the UK by...
Outlook India, April 9, 2013
...Thayil (India), Faber and Faber Beneath the Darkening Sky, Majok Tulba (Australia), Penguin Books Australia The Bellwether Revivals, Benjamin Wood (United Kingdom), Simon & Schuster UK Commonwealth Short Story Prize Not for Publication, Rachel...
The Scotsman, February 15, 2013
...A round-up of the latest paperbacks The Bellwether Revivals By Benjamin Wood (Simon Schuster, £7.99) *** We open with an appalling scene – a house by a river, two bodies and a dying man whose name is Eden. Then we...
Financial Times, May 31, 2013
Broadway World, May 31, 2013
...the lawn. No reservations necessary. Hairspray is directed and choreographed by Piper Lindsay Arpan with Music Direction by Benjamin Wood, Scenic Design by Charles Packard, Costume Design by Sharon McLaury, Sound Design by Curt Behm, Properties by...
Cherokee Ledger-News Online, May 29, 2013
...Xavier Wilkinson Michael Tyler Williams Tony Edwin Wilson Martha Taylor Windham Morgan Patrick Winters Kara Danielle Wood Mark Benjamin Wood Emily Jean Wright Freddie Zarco Marina Teresa Zincone Tyler Stephen Zonsa...
Recorder.com, May 27, 2013
...Guilford, Charlotte Posever of Amherst, Thomas Shuman of Amherst, Sofia Taylor of Deerfield, Taran Weeks of Greenfield and Benjamin Wood of Greenfield...
RN-T.com, May 25, 2013
...Russell, Aaron Shepherd, Robert Skelf, David Tate, Karianna Taylor, Mindy Thompson Mendy, Christopher Wigley, Shelia Williams, Sydney Wittenbarger, Benjamin Wood...
Idaho Mountain Express, May 24, 2013
...John Peck Blaine County School District Superintendent Lonnie Barber said it best about local philanthropists Theresa Castellano-Wood and Benjamin Wood during Tuesday night’s 2012-13 Carey School Citizenship & Awards program. “They have been...
DVIDS, May 23, 2013
...Kuwait, the unit is still supported back home.” A soldier with the brigade’s Special Troops Battalion, Spc. Benjamin Wood, from South Bend, Ind., said this symbolism is important to him as a Soldier and veteran during the Memorial Day holiday. ...