My work tends to be playful, philosophical, often darkly comic, telling stories that, at the same time, offer the means to think about storytelling. I am again trying to place a trilogy of novellas called Detective Story, including a literary hoax purported to be by Wittgenstein, a locked-room mystery, and Sherlock Holmes as speculative fiction that looks at the metaphysics of fictional beings. Sounds great, right? Future projects include a darkly comic novel examining the Sixth Mass Extinction speculatively.

I have been a contributor to Firmament, Shooter literary magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, Tragickal, The Tangerine magazine, 3: AM magazine, Berfrois and STORGY, and had an essay – Profundity is a Slim Volume by an Obscure European Author – and podcasts published at Minor Literature[s].

Four years ago, I was also the inaugural winner of the Verso Prize for work on the speculative aesthetics of human extinction, part of a Masters in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London; I’m still attempting to trade on this achievement. (Desperate stuff, frankly.)

Complete publishing history here.

Email: neilsfitzgerald@gmail.com

I also like to doodle. More here.

I have also released some audio drama podcasts, the most successful being Baker Street 2033.

My most recent long-form writing often blends genre novels with the mythical ‘novel of ideas’, such as Baker Street 2033: The Glass Cryptographer – in which Sherlock Holmes materialises in 2033 as a 3D ‘bioprint’, and ponders the ontology of fictional creations. It has now been released as an audiobook podcast via Acast and should be available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, iTunes, etc.

**Second series now available** – The Estate Problem

Bonus Creepy Christmas Special also now available: The Dismal Séance