Neil Ayres

Neil Ayres is the author of over 30 published short stories, and the novel The New Goodbye. He writes speculative fiction and is currently completely a science fiction novel.

Several of his stories have received honorable mentions in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, as well as being included in two books that won the British Fantasy Societies Best Anthology Award. He has collaborated several times with Aliya Whiteley (Macmillan), and their novelette, Overturned, was also shortlisted for a British Fantasy Society Award. He has also co-written a novelette with Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books).

In 2005 Neil project managed and ghost edited Book of Voices, a short story anthology for Sierra Leone PEN, which featured stories by Gregory Norminton, Patrick Neate and Tanith Lee, along with an introduction from Caryl Phillips.

He also edited The Minotaur in Pamplona, a themed duo of chapbooks for D-Press that included work by Brian Aldiss, Catherynne M Valente, Lavie Tidhar and Rhys Hughes (whose story the title was taken from), and from 2007-08 he edited Serendipity, the journal magical realist and contemporary fantasy, founded with Ben Coppin.

His short story, Remembrance, originally published by the long-running science fiction magazine Jupiter, and reprinted online by Infinity Plus, won a competition held by Tate Modern and was recorded as an audiobook by Christopher Eccleston (28 Days Later, Doctor Who, Heroes, GI Joe, etc).

In 2010 Ayres' literary novel, The New Goodbye, was developed into a multimedia iPhone app by Russell Quinn of McSweeney's. This book is now available for Kindle.

His first published work was a letter to Marvel's Transformers comic, and since then he has written non-fiction for The Bookseller, The Literary Platform and the Man Booker Prize.

He runs Alien Content, a digital media consultancy.