{"id":983,"date":"2024-05-21T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=983"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:28:39","slug":"tj-benson","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/tj-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;TJ Benson is a Nigerian writer and portrait photographer whose work has appeared in several online journals like Jalada Africa, Expound and Bakwa magazine: in print magazines like Harvard\u2019s Transition Magazine, Saraba\u2019s \u2018Transitions\u2019 issue, Catapult and more recently Gay Magazine a partnership between Roxane Gay and Medium. \\n\\nHe was the first runner up for the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize themed \u2018Migration\u2019 and a two time writer-in-residence at the Ebedi Writers Residency Nigeria. His collection of short stories titled \u2018We Won\u2019t Fade Into Darkness\u2019 was shortlisted for the Saraba Manuscript Prize in 2016 before being published by Parresia House in September 2018 and has appeared on many best debut lists. \u2018The Madhouse\u2019 is his second book. \\n\\nHe tweets @tjbenson_ and you can follow his work on tj-benson.com.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\"><em>TJ Benson<\/em> is a Nigerian writer and portrait photographer whose work has appeared in several online journals like Jalada Africa, Expound and Bakwa magazine: in print magazines like Harvard\u2019s Transition Magazine, Saraba\u2019s \u2018Transitions\u2019 issue, Catapult and more recently Gay Magazine a partnership between Roxane Gay and Medium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was the first runner up for the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize themed \u2018Migration\u2019 and a two time writer-in-residence at the Ebedi Writers Residency Nigeria. His collection of short stories titled \u2018We Won\u2019t Fade Into Darkness\u2019 was shortlisted for the Saraba Manuscript Prize in 2016 before being published by Parresia House in September 2018 and has appeared on many best debut lists. \u2018The Madhouse\u2019 is his second book.<\/p>\n<p>He tweets @tjbenson_ and you can follow his work on tj-benson.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1669,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-983","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TJ Benson - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/tj-benson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TJ Benson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TJ Benson is a Nigerian writer and portrait photographer whose work has appeared in several online journals like Jalada Africa, Expound and Bakwa magazine: in print magazines like Harvard\u2019s Transition Magazine, Saraba\u2019s \u2018Transitions\u2019 issue, Catapult and more recently Gay Magazine a partnership between Roxane Gay and Medium. 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