{"id":295,"date":"2024-10-24T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/?post_type=book-author&#038;p=295"},"modified":"2024-12-20T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:00:10","slug":"benjamin-brake","status":"publish","type":"book-author","link":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/book-authors\/benjamin-brake\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Brake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Benjamin Brake grew up in Axminster and has remained in the South West of England ever since. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Scriptwriting for Film and Television in 2018 and completed a master\u2019s degree in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Benjamin draws inspiration from folklore and horror in his writing, favouring a darkly comic style to approach themes of depression, trauma, and recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Despite the title of his debut collection Ugly Hedgehog, he\u2019s actually quite fond of hedgehogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Brake grew up in Axminster and has remained in the South West of England ever since. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Scriptwriting for Film and Television in 2018 and completed a master\u2019s degree in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth in 2023. Benjamin draws inspiration from folklore and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":296,"template":"","class_list":["post-295","book-author","type-book-author","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"additional_colour":"","background_colour":"","font_colour":"","poems":[299],"reviews":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-author\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-author"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book-author"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poem\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}