Nathan Midgley

Background:
Born where London dulls nauseatingly into Surrey, I left immediately to study English and German at Manchester University. There followed two years doing a bastard mix of data input, customer service, tech support and production at a well-known job board. I eased the pain by contributing to various amateur websites and setting up my own. A number of things convinced me to keep writing: among them the hip-hop reviews page in The Wire and Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates.

If asked, I claim my writing is motivated by the deep psychological turmoil of being an identical twin. But it isn’t. Not all the time.

Area of Writing Expertise:
Started out writing reviews and features on music, books etcetera. Currently concentrating on that and prose fiction. Have been known to write think pieces about improbable German words like “fensterln”.

Ficton on bloc:

From Approaching Darkness, From Approaching Light
Sky Blues
The Mortal Blades
An Open Door

Other writing on bloc:

Book review: Web Production for Writers and Journalists
Mark Lucas: Stop worrying and love your agent
Parse Notes: Faith (with Patrick Evans)
Opinion: Star Wars vs. Shakespeare
Opinion: The great book'n'rail swindle

E-mail: nathan.midgley@tiscali.co.uk