I am a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Essex. I teach Writing and Understanding Science Fiction to third-year undergraduates and writing the novel for postgraduates on the MA. Studying a Creative Writing degree at Essex. from University of Essex on Vimeo.
How the art world embraced science fiction
Not that I consider myself an expert. A neophyte, still. But I’ve gleaned some ideas from other more experienced writers and put together an article on writing science fiction for Publishing Talk, here. Here is an extract about robots: Robots replace workers, and they always have, ever since a sorcerer first summoned a golem…
A short story at 3:AM magazineMy short story ‘The Dinner Party Wars’ can be read for free and in full at alternative literary site 3:AM. It’s about the highly formalised duelling that goes on between the dinner party set in London. Only vintage weapons are allowed. I wrote ‘The Dinner Party Wars’ over ten years…
Interview with Ed Atkins for FriezeIn conversation with Ed Atkins for Frieze Magazine, September 2014 I meet with Ed Atkins in a side room of Cabinet, a London gallery close to the cluster of tech start-ups around the Old Street roundabout. As a science fiction writer, I’m interested in how technology is changing us, and…
Read ‘The Destructives’ in Arc
Why are writers so useless?
Playlist for ‘The Destructives’
Living and working with Will Self
Why are my trunks so old?
