Owen

I am a habitual scribbler from Birkby with a BA and MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.

I began writing when I was 10 years old: foodie poems, beat ’em up videogame concepts and a lengthy fantasy yarn titled The 13th Dimension. Sadly this was also my first lost work due to a Rugrats-related computer file save mix-up.

Since then I have crossed the speculative fiction spectrum to science fiction where I have settled; fictionalising thought experiments about the effects of whimsy on time travel, the social science of upgraded household technology and aliens that really aren’t comprehensible.

These days I champion the short story and novella which I hold up to be the neatest forms of prose expression. I am at the same time a shameless pun pundit who regularly deconstructs bad jokes to see exactly what makes them so awful.

I have been published in a few collections including Liberty Tales: Stories and Poems Inspired by the Magna Carta (Arachne Press, 2016) and The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction 2020: AI Stories (Comma Press, 2020). My current dream is for my writing to occupy more than ten pages of a book.

I joined HAC in September 2015 as a shy young writer who was looking for a fresh pair of eyes for his humble body of work. As of 2023 I am a daft mainstay and gabbling social butterfly. I am disciplined in both my writing and my everyday nonsense.

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