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February 08, 1974 in The United Kingdom

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Adam Marek is award-winning short story writer. His first story collection Instruction manual for swallowing was nominated for the Frank O’Connor Prize. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship. In 2010, he was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.

His stories have also appeared in Prospect magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Stinging Fly and Riptide, and in many anthologies including Lemistry, Litmus and The new uncanny from Comma Press, and The Best British Short Stories 2011. His second story collection is due out in July 2012.

‘Tales as playful and emotionally resonant as they are disturbing…delightful.’ The Guardian

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Guest editing the Afterword

All this week, I am the guest editor on the National Post‘s book blog, The Afterword. I’ve written four posts for them about writing, reading, and the inspiration behind a few of the stories in Instruction Manual For Swallowing. I’ll add the links below as each one is posted.

How Paul McCartney taught me to stop worrying and love zombies: on killing zombies with pencils, and the starting point o...

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Average rating: 3.94 · 47 ratings · 17 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Instruction Manual for Swallowing 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Parenthesis: The Next in Text by Adam Marek (Goodreads Author), Ra Page (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science by Ra Page (Editor), Kate Clanchy, Frank Cottrell Boyce 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem by Ra Page (Editor), Magda Raczynska (Editor), Hod Lipson 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	The New Hero by Ed Greenwood, Jonny Nexus, Adam Marek (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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McSweeney's Issue 39

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1Q84: Book Three

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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