Adam Lowe

Biography

Adam Lowe is a writer, journalist and publisher from Leeds, now living in Manchester. In 2009 he received four Lambda Award nominations, in both poetry and prose, and three British Fantasy Award nominations for works that he published. In 2008, his magazine, Polluto, was awarded the Spectrum Fantastic Art Silver Editorial Award. His short story ‘Pomegranate’ is currently included in the Eric Hoffer Award shortlist for Best New Writing. Adam was one of the 2010 young writers in residence at the I Love West Leeds Arts Festival and currently is an attached writer at West Yorkshire Playhouse, funded by BBC Writersroom. Among the other commissions and roles he has this year, he is lead artist for Phase 2 of the Olympics’ Precious Cargo project in Barnsley and a writer in residence at Zion Arts Centre in Hulme. He also writes for Bent, where he is Features Editor. An example of the successes of young writers programmes in the North, Adam is a graduate of Street Voices 2 and an active member of Young Inscribe. In the past he has been a part of Critters and Orson Scott Card's Hatrack River Writers' Workshop. Adam regularly delivers his own online and in-person workshops, and runs an annual mentoring and masterclass programme for emerging writers in the North who specialise in science fiction, fantasy, horror and cross-genre writing: the Dog Horn Masterclass Programme. Because of his work in the region, he is a Youth Ambassador for the Cultural Olympiad in Yorkshire. He has appeared in Word Riot, Unlikely Stories, The Cadaverine, Chimeraworld 5, The Leeds Guide, WAMACK, Saucytooth's, Kaleidotrope, Ex Plus Ultra, The Nervous Breakdown and PoetCasting.co.uk. Adam's academic writing has appeared at the University of Glasgow's eSharp and is forthcoming in the University of Texas' Queering the Fantastic. In 2009 his debut novella, Troglodyte Rose, was also released in limited edition hardback by Cadaverine Publications. An expanded novel-length paperback is due out the other side of the Mayan apocalypse from a US publisher.

Samples

WITH THANKS TO JILL SCOTT As I listen to Jill Scott, careless of the clock in my kitchen, I dream you into my arms. You are warm and snug as foetal. Enveloped tightly, so I can feel your breathing. As I listen to Jill Scott I am elated, as time slows to an elliptical rosary of full stops. And although you're not here, and indeed never were, she leads me to believe maybe you can be or even that it doesn't matter; that as long as I hold these feelings, I stay real. As I listen to Jill Scott, remembering the whisper of your hair against my ear as you pull me near in embrace, I know, without a doubt, that this is love.

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