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Adam Marek

Adam Marek
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  • Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His first story collection Instruction Manual for Swallowing was nominated for the Frank O’Connor Prize. His stories have appeared in many magazines, including: Prospect and The Sunday Times Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry, Litmus and The New Uncanny from Comma Press, The New Hero from Stoneskin Press, and The Best British Short Stories 2011. His second story collection, The Stone Thrower, was published in summer 2012. Stories taken from both collections were recently featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra. To subscribe to Adam’s blog, Twitter and Facebook updates, visit www.adammarek.co.uk
     'Adam Marek is one of the best things to have happened to the short story this century. His stories might be strange, delicious or haunting - but they're always compelling. Any day now the word 'Marekian' is going to enter the language. Get in on the act early. Read him now.'
    Alison MacLeod, Prof of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester
     'Marek's fabulously meaty, funny writing makes the short story look really exciting again, pulling you, frame by frame, into a bright, strange future.'
    Maggie Gee

     'Adam Marek writes tales of the fantastic, the grotesque, and the impossible - all set in familiar, even mundane worlds. The effect may be unnerving or moving or hilarious, but always there is the gripping sense of an idea gestating to a point just short of revelation. Underpinning Marek's fantasies there is a nagging psychological realism. In this debut collection, the English short story receives an injection of something new and compelling and spooky.'
    Alex Linklater, founder of the National Short Story Prize


    Awards won by Adam Marek Short-listed, 2011 BBC National Short Story Award. (The Stone Thrower ) Winner, 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship
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