AJ Kirby is the award-winning author of five novels, one novella, and over forty short stories. He is also a sportswriter for the Professional Footballers' Association and a reviewer for The Short Review and The New York Journal of Books.
Novels
- Perfect World, a techno-thriller (published by TWB Press, March 2011)
- Bully, a supernatural horror novel of revenge from beyond the grave (published by Wild Wolf Publishing in September 2009)
- The Magpie Trap, a crime-thriller, published by Youwriteon.com through their UK Arts Council initiative (April 2009)
- When Elephants walk through the Gorbals, which won third prize in the Luke Bitmead Memorial Bursary run by Legend Press in 2008.
His published fiction also includes a volume of collected short stories, Mix Tape, which was published by New Generation Publishing in 2009, and the novella Call of the Sea, which was published from November 2009 in serial form.
Short Stories
Andy's prize-winning short stories have featured in a wide number of publications, including anthologies (Legend Press's Eight Rooms, and in the forthcoming Ten Journeys, Nemonymous 8: Cone Zero & Nemonymous 9: Cern Zoo from Megazanthus Press, Radgepacket 4 from Byker Books, the Dog Horn Publishing anthology, Dark Hoard 2010, and Graveside Tales' Fried: Fast Food Slow Deaths) print journals (Sein und Werden, Jupiter 24, Skrev Press, and Champagne Shivers) and webzines (New Voices in Fiction, A Fly in Amber, Pumpkin, The Second Hand, Pages of Stories magazine, US Short Story Library, and Underground).
Award recognition has come from Huddersfield Literature Festival, Mere Literary Festival the H.E Bates Short Story Competition, and in writing competitions run by Cinnamon Press and People in Action. He received an honourable mention in the worldwide Best Horror of the Year 2008/9, judged by the esteemed editor, Ellen Datlow.
In 2011, AJ Kirby was runner-up in the Dog Horn Publishing Fiction prize and has been short-listed for the Paperbooks Tale of Two Halves competition.
Andy lives in Leeds , UK with his girlfriend Heidi and his incredibly noisy, but lucky cat, Eric.
To find out more, visit Andy's website: www.andykirbythewriter.20m.com.
