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.[citation needed]
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, making him the first self-published author to win the award.[1] More recently, his novel Invisibility won the 2023 New Welsh Writing awards.[2][3]
He lives in Cardiff, and has taught writing at Cardiff and Swansea universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.[citation needed]
Selected works
[edit]- Two Kinds of Silence
- Doppelgangers
- Loud Music Makes You Drive Faster
- The view from my shed
- This is not a pipe
- Invisibility
References
[edit]- ^ a b Pauli, Michelle (14 July 2004). "If you want something doing ..." The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ "Mark Blayney". Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ "'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.
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