A.J. Reid

Writer dancing on the knife edge of sanity between the Mersey, the Dee, and the Irish Sea. Purveyor of weird, dark stories for the broken-hearted.

Enjoys spinning Dystopian, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Speculative and Adventure yarns for your reading pleasure.

Winner of two Writing Magazine prizes with both short stories published in 2020. Runner-up and shortlisted for eight more poetry and short story prizes at WM.
Shortlisted for 2020 Dinesh Allirajah Speculative Fiction Award run by UCLAN and Comma Press. "Egg" published in their 2020 collection of AI short stories.
Shortlisted for 1000 Word Challenge.
Longlisted for Alpine Fellowship Award.

Other interests include boxing, Blues, Absurdism, Surrealism, Gothic, fires on the beach, Nature, films (David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Peter Mullan, David Cronenberg), mysticism and cooking.