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National Centre for Writing’s Escalator is a talent development programme: eight months of mentoring, training, guidance and networking for writers based in the East of England, who are at the beginning of their careers and feel their voice is under-represented on UK bookshelves.
Find out more about Escalator at nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/escalator
Adam lives in Ipswich and writes noir and hardboiled crime fiction about the dark side of the Suffolk coast. He was raised in Ipswich and returned after reading History at the University of Sheffield and living in London. Adam’s short fiction has been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s ‘Margery Allingham Short Mystery Prize (2021) and been published in the UK and US by Shotgun Honey, Mystery Weekly, Guilty Crime Magazine, and Punk Noir. Adam’s first attempt at a novel, Diaspora, a multi-perspective story about modern slavery in a Suffolk town, was shortlisted for the New Anglia Manuscript Prize. During the 2021 Escalator programme, Adam will be working on a new novel about a lifelong stowaway returning home to investigate the death of a man who alibied him for murder thirty years ago.
Adam is mentored by Owen Nicholls.
National Centre for Writing’s Escalator is a talent development programme: eight months of mentoring, training, guidance and networking for writers based in the East of England, who are at the beginning of their careers and feel their voice is under-represented on UK bookshelves.
Find out more about Escalator at nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/escalator
Adam lives in Ipswich and writes noir and hardboiled crime fiction about the dark side of the Suffolk coast. He was raised in Ipswich and returned after reading History at the University of Sheffield and living in London. Adam’s short fiction has been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s ‘Margery Allingham Short Mystery Prize (2021) and been published in the UK and US by Shotgun Honey, Mystery Weekly, Guilty Crime Magazine, and Punk Noir. Adam’s first attempt at a novel, Diaspora, a multi-perspective story about modern slavery in a Suffolk town, was shortlisted for the New Anglia Manuscript Prize. During the 2021 Escalator programme, Adam will be working on a new novel about a lifelong stowaway returning home to investigate the death of a man who alibied him for murder thirty years ago.
Adam is mentored by Owen Nicholls.
