Sunshine Caf, Withernsea, 2022. Photo by Simon Buckley
Adam Farrer is a writer, a lecturer and the Editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story In 2019 he became the inaugural Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. His manuscript, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards and was published by Saraband books in the UK on August 4th 2022 and in the US on October 18th.
His writing can be found in numerous publications, including The Guardian, the short story collection Flash Nonfiction Funny (Woodhall Press, 2018), Test Signal (Dead Ink Books/Bloomsbury, 2021), North Country (Saraband, 2022), Hinterland magazine and Lunate. The research and writing of Cold Fish Soup was funded by a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England. He has also appeared on Radio 4, BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Manchester.
He has performed his work at a number of arts and literature festivals, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Leeds Litfest, the Ilkley Literature Festival, and the Manchester Literature Festival. He has also run workshops on creative nonfiction writing for The University of Salford’s Festival of Research, the Northern Light Writers Conference, the Prestwich Arts Festival, Victoria Baths Weekend of Words, and the Greater Manchester Fringe Development Conference.
He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist, and lectured in creative nonfiction and memoir writing at the University of Lancaster.
In the North Sea, late 1970’s.