About

Michael Loveday

Michael Loveday is a fiction writer and poet. He works freelance as an editor and mentor, with a specialism in helping writers who are working on narrative poetry sequences or novellas-in-flash, or who are crossing over between forms. He is a resident of The Studio, Bath Spa University’s Enterprise and Innovation Hub. An informal, abbreviated summary of Michael’s journey to becoming a writer can be found here.

Michael has spent twenty-five years as a fiction writer and poet. He Said/She Said, his debut poetry chapbook, was published by HappenStance Press in 2011. His first full work of fiction, the hybrid novella-in-flash sequence Three Men on the Edge (V. Press, 2018) was shortlisted for the 2019 Saboteur Best Novella Award. His craft guide to the novella-in-flash form, Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction in spring 2022. This book received an Arts Council England Award, and went on to win a Best Indie Book Award, a Cadmus Book Award, the 2024 Independent Press Award for Writing and Publishing, and was a Finalist or runner-up for four other awards, including the International Book Awards 2023. His fourth publication, a chapbook of short-short stories called Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood, was published in November 2022 by Bamboo Dart Press.

Michael was a Director/Trustee of the National Association of Writers in Education from 2017 to 2021. He was the founding editor of 14 magazine, a poetry journal devoted to modern sonnets, from 2005-2012. He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Newcastle University (distinction, 2007-2008) and a Master of Arts in Writing from Kingston University (distinction, 2009-2011).

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