Early Novels and Short Fiction
By Peter Cowlam
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*Early Novels and Short Fiction* is the first of three volumes covering Peter Cowlam’s adventures into fiction, dating from the mid-1970s and into the twenty-first century. *Early Novels and Short Fiction* covers the period from 1974 to 1998 (approximately), and opens with *Penumbra*, a collection of short stories, which is followed by the novels and novellas *The Border and Back*, *Bim Shay*, a re-imagining of the detective yarn, *Electric Letters Z*, a satire on literary celebrity, first published in 1998, which under the title *Who’s Afraid of the Booker Prize?* won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction in 2015, and *Caliban’s Machine*, the memoir of George du Plé, a young English poet in American exile.
Peter Cowlam
Peter Cowlam studied Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts. He has had plays performed at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, and by the Dartington Playgoers, and has had readings at the State University of New York and for the Theatre West 100 Plays project in Bristol, England.As a novelist, he has won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction twice, most recently in 2018 for his novel New King Palmers, which is at the intersection of old, crumbling empires and new, digital agglomerates. The Quagga Prize is awarded for independently published works of fiction. In total he has had three novels published independently.He has had four collections of haikuesque poems published (one in collaboration with Kathryn Kopple), also independently, and as poet and writer of fiction his work has appeared on the Fairlight Books website, in En Bloc, The Battersea Review, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Blue Nib, The Galway Review, Easy Street, Literary Matters, Eunoia Review, The Brown Boat, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Four Quarters Magazine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Liberal, the Criterion, and others.Peter Cowlam is the Literary Editor at Ars Notoria (arsnotoria.com). He can be contacted at petercowlam@gmail.com
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