About

Michael Loveday

Michael Loveday is a fiction writer and poet, and the author of two books and two chapbooks.

He Said/She Said, his debut poetry chapbook, was published by HappenStance Press in 2011. It explores a faltering relationship between two people of different nationalities. His first full work of fiction, the hybrid novella-in-flash sequence Three Men on the Edge (V. Press, 2018) is set in a liminal ‘edgelands’ where Southwest Hertfordshire meets the suburbs of Northwest London. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Saboteur Best Novella Award.

In 2022, Ad Hoc Fiction published Michael’s craft guide to the novella-in-flash form, Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash. 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.

Michael’s most recent publication is a chapbook of short-short stories about the natural dynamic of the inner child: Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood, published in November 2022 by Bamboo Dart Press.

Michael 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. Since 2020, he has been a resident of The Studio, Bath Spa University’s Enterprise and Innovation Hub.

In 2005, Michael founded 14 magazine, a journal devoted to modern sonnets and other 14-liners. The magazine was edited/co-edited by him for its first 14 issues (2005-2012).

Michael has been involved in teaching creative writing since 2011, facilitating group workshops and working 1:2:1 for various charities and adult community organisations, and working as a Visiting Lecturer for Advanced Studies in England and Bath Spa University.

He was a Director/Trustee of the National Association of Writers in Education from 2017 to 2021. He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Newcastle University (2007-2008) and a Master of Arts in Writing from Kingston University (2009-2011).

An informal, abbreviated summary of Michael’s journey to becoming a writer can be found here.

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