Blog - Adam Marek http://www.adammarek.co.uk/blog/ Short story writer Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:34:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.adammarek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cropped-The-Stone-Thrower-square-crop-1000px-32x32.jpg Blog - Adam Marek http://www.adammarek.co.uk/blog/ 32 32 59702793 Learn how to write the future – an online class https://www.adammarek.co.uk/learn-how-to-write-the-future-an-online-class/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/learn-how-to-write-the-future-an-online-class/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:16:52 +0000 https://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=5007 **This class has been rescheduled to Friday 9 January 2026 – apologies if you’ve booked and it causes any inconvenience** Would you like to learn a practical technique for generating sci-fi/futuristic story ideas and developing them into actual stories? It’s something I developed myself over many years of writing fiction set in the future, and […]

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/learn-how-to-write-the-future-an-online-class/feed/ 0 5007 Frankenstein’s Podcast on Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans https://www.adammarek.co.uk/frankensteins-podcast-on-ray-harryhausens-clash-of-the-titans/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/frankensteins-podcast-on-ray-harryhausens-clash-of-the-titans/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:13:44 +0000 https://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=4925 Last week I had the huge pleasure of chatting with Joe Praska and Kalid Hussein on their brilliant Frankenstein’s Podcast. I’m a huge Ray Harryhausen fan, and we talked about one of my favourite Harryhausen movies: Clash of the Titans (the 1981 original, not the 2010 remake abomination). If you’ve not come across Frankenstein’s Podcast […]

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/frankensteins-podcast-on-ray-harryhausens-clash-of-the-titans/feed/ 0 4925 My new short story collection is out now https://www.adammarek.co.uk/my-new-short-story-collection-is-out-now/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/my-new-short-story-collection-is-out-now/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2024 08:43:29 +0000 https://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=4917 My third short story collection, The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need, is out now. Here’s a little about it: Plant-based skyscrapers, reluctant sex robots, pencil-wielding black-belts fighting a zombie apocalypse…  Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Adam Marek’s third collection: an almanac of the absurd, a handbook to the hardware problems of being human. […]

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/my-new-short-story-collection-is-out-now/feed/ 1 4917 New short story in the Royal Academy magazine https://www.adammarek.co.uk/new-short-story-in-the-royal-academy-magazine/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/new-short-story-in-the-royal-academy-magazine/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:03:50 +0000 http://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=4580 The Royal Academy magazine commissioned me to write a short story for their summer 2019 issue inspired by an artist's work. I chose the amazing Phil Hale.

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/new-short-story-in-the-royal-academy-magazine/feed/ 0 4580 Pale Blue Dots – my new short story on Radio 4 https://www.adammarek.co.uk/pale-blue-dots-my-new-short-story-on-radio-4/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/pale-blue-dots-my-new-short-story-on-radio-4/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:27:26 +0000 http://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=3869 I have a new short story on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 14 December 2018 at 3:45pm. It’s called Pale Blue Dots, and it’s about what happens when our personal virtual assistants (like Siri and Alexa) get too clever for our own good.  Thanks so much to Jeremy Osborne at Sweet Talk Productions for commissioning […]

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/pale-blue-dots-my-new-short-story-on-radio-4/feed/ 2 3869 David Mitchell event at WordFactory https://www.adammarek.co.uk/david-mitchell-event-at-wordfactory/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/david-mitchell-event-at-wordfactory/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2017 11:18:05 +0000 http://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=3319 I’m so excited to be interviewing the amazing David Mitchell at a special WordFactory salon on Weds 12 July 2017. David is the author of seven novels, including Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Slade House. He has also c0-translated into English the extraordinary autism memoirs of Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall […]

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/david-mitchell-event-at-wordfactory/feed/ 1 3319 Short story writing course, with me https://www.adammarek.co.uk/short-story-writing-course-with-me/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/short-story-writing-course-with-me/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:06:49 +0000 http://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=3306 I’m teaching a six-part short story writing course with Comma Press at the Freeword Centre in London. In it I’ll cover: • How to come up with ideas, and how to decide whether they’ll work as a short story before you begin writing. • How to write a first draft, with and without a plan. […]

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]]> https://www.adammarek.co.uk/short-story-writing-course-with-me/feed/ 0 3306 New short story on BBC Radio 4 https://www.adammarek.co.uk/new-short-story-on-bbc-radio-4/ https://www.adammarek.co.uk/new-short-story-on-bbc-radio-4/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:04:45 +0000 http://www.adammarek.co.uk/?p=3298 I have a new short story on BBC Radio 4 on Fri 9 June at 3:45pm. It’s called Companions, and it features a robot and an imaginary grandma. Big thanks to Jeremy Osborne at Sweet Talk Productions for commissioning me, and actor Lee Ingleby, for making it sound so terrific. The story will stay on the […]

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