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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, The Stone Thrower is out from Comma Press now. The North American edition of The Stone Thrower is out from ECW Press in April 2013.

‘Tales as playful and emotionally resonant as they are dist...more

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Loving the Zagrebians: a photo-caption blog

I just got back from a spectacular week at the Festival of the European Short Story in Croatia. A whole week of literary mayhem. So much fun. Here’s my report, in photo captions: Thank you so much to Roman, Jelena, Kate, Tomislav, Zeljka, Snjezana, Gordana, Andrea, Karla, Karla, Denis, Martina, David, Katarina, Ela, Anja and [...]

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	Instruction Manual for Swallowing 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stone Thrower 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parenthesis: The Next in Text by Adam Marek (Goodreads Author), Ra Page (Editor) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science by Ra Page (Editor), Kate Clanchy, Frank Cottrell Boyce 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanisław Lem by Ra Page (Editor), Magda Raczynska (Editor), Sarah Schofield 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Hero by Robin D. Laws (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ed Greenwood, Jonny Nexus 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beacons: Stories for our not so distant future by Tom Bullough (Editor), Gregory Norminton (Goodreads Author), David Constantine 3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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