Mark Kirkbride lives in Shepperton, England. He is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan’s Fan Club, originally published by Omnium Gatherum and rereleased by Crossroad Press. Game Changers of the Apocalypse was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019. His short stories can be found in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Flash Frontier, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library and Titanic Terastructures. His poetry has appeared in Neon Literary Magazine, THEMA, the London Reader, The Climate Matters Anthology 2020 (Culture Matters/Riptide Journal), the Big Issue, the Morning Star, the Daily Mirror, Sein und Werden and Horror Writers Association chapbooks. He was longlisted in the SaveAs Writers’ International Writing Competition 2021 and the AUB International Poetry Prize 2021, and shortlisted in the AONB Landscape category of the Ginkgo Prize 2021.
Mark is a member of the British Fantasy Society, the British Science Fiction Association, the Horror Writers Association and Clockhouse London Writers. He has taught on the Creative Writing and Journalism BA at Middlesex University, as an Arts and Literature Tutor at Royal Holloway and as a Creative Workshop Tutor for the University for the Creative Arts.
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