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"The Creeks Mending" (2025)

A poetry anthology including photography and paintings by Ben Nolan available for free on Google Drive (link below). There is also an album of Nolan reading certain poems from the book aloud which is available for free on YouTube, Spotify and anywhere you get your music (link also below). Full Written Book Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1va-tkAU1kPOvuFMzCJLC2Su8cxpAdqxB/view?usp=sharing Aloud Poetry Reading YouTube Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=O

"Hold Me With Your Shattered Hands" Screenplay Released

"I just had to abandon the production of a short film I was making called "Hold Me With Your Shattered Hands". It's really upsetting to do this, but I'm sorry, I really had to abandon it completely shamefully. If anyone's interested in reading it, I've made a drive file of the script so I hope you enjoy it. No rights are reserved so if any filmmakers out there want to make it go and do your thing. I'm probably gonna stick to writing, music, painting and short films from now o

The Life of Meaning (2024)

"The Life of Meaning" is a paper by Ben Nolan, exploring the role of philosophy and theology in the status of the concept of meaning. Speaking at length with self-proclaimed philosophers and religious experts and analysing their conversations, Nolan questions why people choose to put meaning where they do, why and how they keep their faith within one idea or set of ideas and all with a sharp whit and sense of deduction. All the interviews conducted by Nolan are presented in t

Ben Nolan's First Feature Film: "AccepTance" (2025) Released On YouTube

Ben Nolan's debut feature film AccepTance is an independent 2025 documentary about the transgender experience that was produced, directed and co-edited by Nolan. Experimentally posing the interviews in a conversational manner rather than a typical spliced-documentary style allows the interviewees to speak for themselves rather than having the filmmaker speak for them. Nolan travelled through 2 hemispheres, 3 continents and 4 countries in order to get trans voices from all aro

Ben Nolan's Brockley Black Pudding Escapade

On Sunday the 19th of October 2025 at The Brockley Barge JD Wetherspoons in Brockley, South East London, Ben Nolan ate 25 out of 30 black puddings whilst dressed as a sexy nun in fishnets to a crowd of an estimated 30 excited spectators. Although Nolan only managed to devour 25 out of 30 oh so fated black puddings, here's what attendees still said of the event: "Wicked" "Sick" "Sickening" "Disgusting, in a good way" "Bold" Over £50 was raised for The British Heart Foundation

COME AND SEE BEN NOLAN DEVOUR 30 BLACK PUDDINGS ON SUNDAY THE 19TH OF OCTOBER AT 7PM IN THE BROCKLEY BARGE SPOONS IN BROCKLEY, GREATER LONDON.

He will do this within one hour and shall be dressed as a nun.

31 Days, 31 Nights Released Globally

My most recent book project 31 Days, 31 Nights is out now on Amazon, the Lulu Bookstore and many other online book stores. Also as of late 2024 it is available for free from the google docs link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/175CvGWJojzS_uDtEAaY56YQhHcgtLn_A/view?usp=sharing Thank you so much to everyone for all the support and especially to Alma Poole for her fantastic photography work for the cover: Thank You Alma! 31 Days, 31 Nights is a strange, odd and acid-trip