Mark Blayney

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Mark Blayney (born 1973 or 1974) [1] is a British writer. He graduated from Royal Holloway in 1995, and spent more than a decade working at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. [2]

Blayney has published in a range of genres, including novels, short stories and poetry. His first collection of short stories, Two Kinds of Silence, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2004, making him the first self-published author to win the award. [1] [3] More recently, his novel Invisibility won the 2023 New Welsh Writing awards. [2] [4]

He lives in Cardiff, and has taught writing at Cardiff and Swansea universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. [2]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Pauli, Michelle (14 July 2004). "If you want something doing ..." The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mark Blayney". Royal Literary Fund . Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors . Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "'Invisibility': Mark Blayney announced as the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting". New Welsh Review . Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  5. ↑ Schofield, Emma (31 March 2016). "Doppelgängers by Mark Blayney | Fiction - Wales Arts Review". Wales Arts Review . Retrieved 9 March 2025.
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