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  <name><![CDATA[A.J. Kirby]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A.J Kirby (or Andy to his friends) started to write seriously after just losing out on winning a cash prize on a TV game show, despite being told the answers beforehand… What they say about your mind going blank when you’re in front of the TV cameras and sweating because of the lights really is true.

Writing fiction to suspend belief in skint reality is his stock in trade now, and he’s lucky enough to have his short stories featured in a wide number of publications, including anthologies (Legend Press's Eight Rooms, Nemonymous 8: Cone Zero &amp; Nemonymous 9: Cern Zoo from Megazanthus Press, Graveside Tales' Fried: Fast Food Slow Deaths) print journals (Sein und Werden, Skrev Press, and Champagne Shivers) and webzines (New Voices in Horror, Pumpkin, The Second Hand, US Short Story Library, and Underground). 

In addition to his short fiction, Andy has written three novels; Bully, a supernatural horror novel of revenge from beyond the grave (published by Wild Wolf Publishing in September 2009); the crime-thriller, The Magpie Trap, which has been published by Youwriteon.com and Legend Press through their UK Arts Council initiative (April 2009), and When Elephants walk through the Gorbals, which won third prize in the Luke Bitmead Memorial Bursary run by Legend Press in 2008.

He was runner-up in the 2008 Huddersfield Literature Festival creative writing competition, and this year was also short-listed for the Cinnamon Press short fiction prize and the Mere Literary Festival prize.

Andy lives in Leeds , UK with his girlfriend Heidi and his incredibly noisy cat, Eric. 
To find out more, visit Andy's website: www.andykirbythewriter.20m.com. 



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