Pedlar of different varieties of satirical fictions of ideas, mostly in the form of stories and novellas that publishers shy away from, forcing me to produce weird tragicomic podcasts, often veering into folk horror. The fools!

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

COMING SOON – a creepy Bonus Christmas Special and subscriber exclusive:

Also available is Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir (2023)- a hardboiled noir based on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s life, a potential literary hoax over which two academics fight a war of authenticity.

Day Trips for Nihilists is an esoteric mix of music old and new, literary extracts, field recordings, and gnomic utterances.

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.

I also like to doodle. More here.

Email: neilsfitzgerald@gmail.com