Excited to have “Draft Two” - the longest short story I’ve written so far - appear in grist. It’s about a band on tour, toxic masculinity, cancel culture, and Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”

Something I wrote a while ago on Aftersun - a film I think is a stone cold masterpiece - has been published by Offscreen. Link below to some thoughts on memory, depression, and what I call the film's "struggle aesthetics": offscreen.com/view/struggl...

My metafictional short story about a fraught mother-in-law and son-in-law relationship - "M.I.L." - has been published in the inaugural issue of Peruse Lit!

My flash fiction about a recently divorced influencer - "Influence" - has been published at @litromagazine.bsky.social as part of their Future Archives project. Link below! www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick...

Thrilled to have my new short story 'Appear Missing' out with @ergot.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/J.B....

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, because my book is out now, fresh off the press! Happy book birthday to “Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 📕🎉! doi.org/10.1007/978-... @hss.springernature.com

Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..." asapjournal.com/node/past-an...

Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!! HAUNTINGS Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering Feat: Nicole Dib Arin Keeble Jay Shelat Irina Troconis Dorinne Kondo George Kowalik A. Banerjee M. Stang Christine Prevas asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...

I have an essay on Percival Everett's 'The Trees' in a fantastic new cluster of research on Hauntings up at ASAP/Review! asapjournal.com/node/past-an...

a couple of big ones bought in Tokyo before they’re out in the UK 😍

A short piece I wrote last year - “Just in Time: Percival Everett’s ‘Erasure’” - has been published by the Journal of American Studies. In it, I discuss my PhD research, Everett’s work, careers, and cultural moments. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My book came out on Friday! Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin. c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries! www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...

“Impeded” - feat. junior football firms, British pub culture, organised fights, directionless male youth ✍️ shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/tbr...

My book is out a week today! Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel... Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...

Redford's golden boy aura made him perfect for roles like "The Great Gatsby" and "The Way We Were," but cost him others like "The Graduate."

Robert Redford's 15 Best Movies: His greatest performances from Butch Cassidy, The Sting, and Jeremiah Johnson to All Is Lost.

Did you know all our magazines are free to read online? Because they are. 👉🏻 penstricken.com/issues #fiction #poetry #writing

I have a short story in The Brussels Review’s new “Blanc” anthology, which is available now: shop.thebrusselsreview.com A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’

‘The Peel’ was included in this anthology after being shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It was originally published last year: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

My book has a pre-order date! www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...

My 2023 journal article on post-postmodernism (part of my PhD research, now part of my forthcoming first book) won an award! My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏

Excited to have my story ‘The Peel’ shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!

At the British Library this evening!

Thanks to @librelit.bsky.social for publishing my story ‘Car Drives Away.’ Link below!

We’re taking a break from publications until Friday. We’ll be publishing Nicole Brogdon, M. Klein, & George Oliver that day. Fabulous writers with loads to say. Thank you for understanding!

Our 2025 Spring anthology is out now! As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so read with care ✨ link in bio *Small reminder, Spring issue was very behind schedule so we are already starting to read through the Summer subs which close tonight 🥰

My story ‘Hinterland’ appears in the Spring Quarterly Anthology of @querenciapress.bsky.social! Available to buy here: www.querenciapress.com/querencia-sp...

I have a new story about Polishness and the Life in the UK Test in the new issue of Reverie Magazine. I wrote it before this week’s government White Paper. I for one might fuck off outta this country if we keep pretending that our economy and society doesn’t/hasn’t ALWAYS relied on immigrants.

My story ‘Hinterland’ will also appear in this! 🥝🥝🥝

My story ‘Hinterland’ - a speculative fiction about dreams, coffee shops, and city life - is in the new issue of The Interpreter’s House. theinterpretershouse.org/current-issue

I have a new story in the latest issue of Freshwater Literary Journal! Available online here: issuu.com/freshwaterli....

Book = done ✅

I have a book review in the new issue of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies!

My story ‘The Peel’ was republished in @eunoiareview.bsky.social!

Gonna make a more concerted effort to use this platform! I have a couple more stories coming out in print in 🇺🇸 in the next few months. A long one about a band on tour hit by scandal… and a flash fiction about grief, football, VAR, and playing with a high press.

A new story of mine will appear in Twenty-two Twenty-eight a week on Weds!

Looking forward to my story ‘My Unimaginary Friend’ - pubbed last year in print - being republished by Literally Stories (online) in March!

Was glad to have some writing published last year… Links to everything: georgeoliverkowalik.wordpress.com

Seeing as we’re doing 2024 now…

Looking forward to presenting at #BAAS2024 in April. I’ll be talking about Percival Everett, Sidney Poitier, the novel ‘I Am Not Sidney Poitier’, trickery, and the past.

I wrote a festive-themed short story, which has been published by Litro. Link below to ‘Match Cut’! www.litromagazine.com/litro-magazi...

Nothing better than a little flash on a Tuesday morning, is there? Well, maybe popcorn and a movie, but what do I know? I'll tell you what, I do know that you should check out "Selling" by @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social Don't forget your popcorn! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/selling...

Link below to my story ‘Selling’ - about cinemas, popcorn, and Scarlett Johansson - alongside lots of other great work!

Looking forward to re-appearing in @rfpress.bsky.social on Sunday. My flash fiction ‘Selling’ is in issue 53!

At a preview screening last night (with Q&A) of Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Everett’s ‘Erasure’: ‘American Fiction’

A really good place to start with the special issue on Everett is Sascha Pöhlmann's introduction: “Playing Metafictional Games with Percival Everett”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 11(1) orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... A great piece of scholarship in its own right.

Oh yeah! Our special issue of Orbit on Percival Everett is now out. Here's my piece: Eve, M. P., (2023) “Impossible Chess, Close Reading, and Inattention as Disability in Percival Everett’s Telephone”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 11(1) orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/9...

Co-authoring this article on Percival Everett's The Trees with @sherimariephd.bsky.social has been such a rewarding experience. This whole special issue of Orbit - open access - is really great. Please check it out!

Excited to be in the new ‘Orbit’ special issue on Percival Everett! My article - ‘America’s Deserter: Forms of Racialised Mistreatment and Escaping the Need to Escape in Everett’s ‘American Desert’’ - and the whole issue is available open-access: orbit.openlibhums.org/issue/900/info/