Readings Event II: Adam Marek, Naomi Wood, Stuart Evers, Douglas Cowie. The Peckham Pelican Fri 20 J

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As Monday, so Friday, four more exciting talents: award-winning short story writer Adam Marek, Jerwood Fiction Incovered prize winner Naomi Wood, Picador published and award-winning short story writer and novelist, Stuart Evers, and American novelist Douglas Cowie, whose recent novella ?Sing for Life: Tin Pan Alley? took the hit song of the 1890s, as a focal point and posed the question: How do you write about music? His mixed-media performance includes song extracts as well as prose extracts. Douglas will also be spinning the vinyl.

Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. His stories have appeared in many magazines including Prospect and The Sunday Times Magazine, The Stinging Fly and The London Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry, The New Uncanny, Biopunk and The Best British Short Stories 2011 and 2013. His short story collections The Stone Thrower and Instruction Manual for Swallowing are published in the UK by Comma Press, and in North America by ECW Press. Visit Adam online at www.adammarek.co.uk

Naomi Wood?s first novel, The Godless Boys, was published to critical acclaim by Picador in 2011, and Naomi has written the screenplay, currently under option. Her second novel, Mrs. Hemingway, an historical novel based on the lives of the four Hemingway wives, was also published to widespread acclaim by Picador in 2014, and will be published by Penguin in the US in May, and has just won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her work is published in ten languages. She lives in London, has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from UEA, and teaches Creative Writing at Goldsmiths.

Stuart Evers? - hot-footing it to us form the first London Short Story Festival - first collection of fiction, Ten Stories About Smoking, won the London Book Award in 2011, and his debut novel If This is Home was published to considerable acclaim by Picador in 2012. He lives in Walthamstow.

Douglas Cowie was born in Elmhurst, Illinois in 1977. He is the author of a handful of short stories, essays, a novel, Owen Noone and the Marauder, and two linked novellas, Sing for Life: Tin Pan Alley and Sing for Life: Away, You Rolling River. He teaches in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London.