Finn Longman

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Finn Longman is an author and medievalist, originally from London. They write young adult and adult fiction, with a particular interest in genre-bending stories about identity, friendship, and monstrosity – of the metaphorical or the literal sort. They've spent most of their adult life either working as a library assistant or studying for increasingly niche degrees in medieval literature, but when they don't have their head in a book they can usually be found playing folk music in a local pub.

Finn is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching friendship and affection in the later Ulster Cycle.
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Constraints and Compromises: Why Line Edits Need Rules

At the end of February, I submitted my line edits for The Animals We Became, my next book — a queertrans retelling of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi (the story of Blodeuwedd) exploring gender, trauma, and compulsory heterosexuality through assorted nonconsensual animal transformations and all the other fascinating horrors of medieval Welsh literature. Line …
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The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
"I do not think I have ever read a book so beautifully composed as this one.

The wolf chapters are in evocative, heart-twisting verse, and the (human) prose chapters are equally luscious. This book's ability to incorporate medieval stylistic choices w" Read more of this review »
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“You think all that’s inside you is darkness, Isabel, but I see light there. It’s small and it’s starved, but it’s there. And I wish you could see it too.’
‘A candle can’t do much against a black hole.’
‘So light another candle.”
Finn Longman, The Butterfly Assassin

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“You think all that’s inside you is darkness, Isabel, but I see light there. It’s small and it’s starved, but it’s there. And I wish you could see it too.’
‘A candle can’t do much against a black hole.’
‘So light another candle.”
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